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THE ERA WED OCTOBER 19G9 VOL 118 NO Editorials Who will help the Cubs York County School Board has been making strenuous of forts to accommodate community recreation programs in their schools after students leave but despite its efforts to be as fair as it can trusteed have stepped on a few toes They should not be blamed for the responsibility for recreation programs in the school or out is not their first concern The school boards policy on use of schools states that schools are available free of charge to groups applying through municipal recrea tion committees However if through keeping a school open for a com munity group the board incurs expenses these must be paid by the group This is only fair The school board operates on a tight budget and their money is raised by taxes for education collected across the county If even a little of it is spent to subsidize other activities the county education program suffers proporionately By to this education first policy and at the same time trying to make school facilities as available as possible to outside groups the trustees inadvertently discriminated against people living in small communities In large communities where staffs are on doty in the bigger schools until late in the evening community groups do not have to pay them overtime for keeping the school open In small communities such as Sharon where the caretaker at Sharon Public School goes off duty at pm groups such as the Scouts Cubs and Guides who in other years used the school at no charge now must pay him time and a half to work after pm Caretakers under the new York County board belong to a union Community groups in small communities have small budgets In Sharon the Cubs Scouts Guides and Brownies say they cant pay the a year it will cost them to meet at the school They say if they have to they will be forced out of existence They have no other place to meet It is obvious the school hoard shouldnt be expected to pay but somebody should A community cant afford to lone such groups We think the East Gwillimbury Council recreation committee is the logical inheritor of this responsibilly SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Id go hunting if This is the lime of year when ther the hunting stones flwng annual id Knell time they in lelold Ihey be come a bigger lie or a little funnier more hunters killed wound- disabled for life from heart ttacks and arthritis than birds I dont mind the stories lien theyre funny or big fat lies Hut theres nothing more boring than lis tening to a hunter telling you in lend- earnest the entire story of how he would have got his hag of ducks or bagged his deer if the fates and the every hole of his golf gai hand of bridge He would have shot par or made his grand slam if if if Getting back to hunters you will never hear that earnest serious teller of tales admitting that he could not hit the side of a barn with a handful of beans from three feet Or that hes as quiet in the bush as a tank on a hot tin roof No there is nothing wrong with him Its the gods or his gun jammed or sheet- bad luck Quite a few of the chaps on our staff who are keen hunters urge me to join them This means stand ing around in a swamp and chesthigh boots after walking an hour to get there gazing sullenly for hours at a sullen sky filled with blackbirds ami I used to be a fair shot Theres many a tree fencepost and tin can in the that can to that and I used to enjoy hunting It really was pleasant to got away from the old cured fore- deer hunting I got lost twice w almost shot once he hit the how instead of me and was dam neai drowned on the way home fro Another thing that puts me off is the type of people who hunt is a luge percentage of high grade morons among them Ive just read in the Echo a story about two hunters who shot and killed two wild white swans that had made their home near a beach resort and were a delight to- cottagers What is there to say about hunters who shoot swans A couple of years ago two chaps I know went out to the local golf course and shot every black squirrel in sight This takes a lot of nerve stamina and bushlore walk ing around a golf course slaughter ing half tame squirrels with three Then there are the hunters who go off for a good drunk in the bush It gives them a chance to play poker grow a beard curse belch and checking week But they enjoy wearing big boots and rough clothes and making Then they come home know what theyre shooting at try to kill cleanly and follow the wound ed deer or retrieve the wounded bird at any cost Ive no quarrel with them But I think most of them would be just as happy with an unloaded gun Theres no real appeal in hunting for me any more though I love get out in the hush prefer- But if they ever declare open on school I will be right back there gun shoulder keen of eye and hard jaw tireless in the chase ami relent less in the kill I wouldnt taking part in wiping out the THE J Headers ERA Dour lili mil school If In low In- ran not lie the hi till i Illin fnilory whereas a been ium nil ho luiiiiii In Ho Urn lilaino ill i III Involved with lliTii-M- leclimlotd llio education ran tell the nubile with than Mr that Ill in the colli are identical that llnw how Hi- who know how llalcn roil on When they are proline or exports ill the field land Kelvin once said When limy mow idler they start hie of llnii von know what you are Thai count la the anil talking It was pinned on classroom have never for ow wrong are It thnillht il to III verv appropriate for an electronics this state in In in mil loll I on loo shop Now think I have learnet it is very am does not harm am mi Ida Hill 1 have hull I Hi it position of Ilia Huron a radio reporter People whose contact with living is through quota tions of people who have ben dead for a long time people who I have described above should not hold such powerful positions Mr Gamble who writes The Eras Town Crier column in my opin ion is a perfect example of what I just said His article called Vocational Courses is an incoherent story fill ed with confused and contradicting statements To say the least it is an unrelated pile of rubbish He writes and writes but does not know from one sentence to the next what he has said before Look for any evidence of investigation reading listening and reasoning and brother will be It just is not there lie us first that students gain mili tary knowledge then he that the high school turns out till- pile fullfledged tradesmen later on tie That is one example His whole story is one glamorous specimen of gigantic ignorance and For another example what is wrong with a Newmarket High School graduate selling soap Is there Dropout but cant dropin I have discovered is that about 99 per cent genuinely feel that their edu cational hiatus will he temporary that as soon as they find what they arc looking for or accept the fact hat il is unattainable they will ei ther return to high school or continue their education via night school But in most cases unfortu nately such hopes soon melt into sad delusions Disenchantment comes in the form of obstacles evening class es arc overcrowded and consequent ly the time required to obtain a Grade 12 would be insufferably long student returning to day school after an absence of one term repre sents a step in retrograde and be comes therefore unthinkable and employers are apathetic being more concerned with how fast a young ster can punch a press than how he can further his knowledge John for example is a 19yearold high school dropout who had been working for a Newmarket company that locales on Davis Dr Concluding that the time required to obtain his Grade 12 via night courses at Heights Secondary School in Richmond Hill would be five years this young man look half a day off work to consult wilh Canada Man power to find out if he could do bet ter through heir course It so happened thai he could have obtained his tirade 12 at his own cos through Canada Manpower in approximately eight months But the rub was ha il was a day course and he would have had lo quit his job When he returned lo work that afternoon and told his employer where he had been he was fired on the spot The company may have felt unification for firing Ibis ffort to better himself he was sud denly faced with the brutal realiza tion that nobody cared el This mav seem like an it is far from it dropouts better themselves than know about or care about Aristotle said that all men by nature desire to know But this raises lie question if was right why the drop out Well as I ventured last week the lack of challenge in educational programs is the biggest offender of insl They quit school hut with the full awareness that they have given up Once outside however their sense of challenge becomes revitalized anil they cant resist Hie urge have another go at it Some educators seem to think that todays knowledge is too much for todays students theorize thai the expansion of knowledge has not been accompanied by a parallel expansion of the minds that have to cope with it But I relegate this theory to the same garbage dump programs for education in the schools Its about time thought of form ing adequate educational programs to aid the many thousands of highly intellegenl dropouts on the outside Im leaving a little spate this week extend congratulations to the Collegiate Institute Marching and Concert Band This championships inning band has been invited to Osaka Japan to entertain at Winter Olympics But before this fine musical group heads east to Japan residents of Newmarket will he able lo enjoy their combined talents at the Clans parade on Nov All mem bers including majorettes will be on hand to entertain us In addition there will be five other bands in the parade the To the Editor As the parent of a Wolf Cub of Sharon 1st A I attended Registration Night at Sharon Public School on October 15th the auditorium of the school without charge as a meeting place for the Cubs every Wednesday from to 830 pm At this meeting we were advised that as of November 1969 the new York County Board of Education had changed their policy As a nonprofit group we would not have to pay a rental fee hut if the auditorium was used after pm we would have lo pay an hour for the caretakers overtime There is no way our Croup Committee can afford to pay this fee each week and the only alternative is to stop holding the meetings It seems a pity that an or ganization dedicated lo teaching a boy to honor his country to respect unity should have to abandon its operations because of a thought less action by a regional governing By A Han Ward and Mark Craig A welcome contribution to the music scene in Newmarket has been achieved over the past few weeks by an organization of teens from East Heights Because of the work of this group there is now entertainment to be found at Cal vary United Church in East bury Heights on Wednesday and day nights The organization called The Groove planned the entertainment arranged for line of the hall and let up its leaders within Itself to form an organized efficient body which has presented a record hop and dance weekly over the past month Anyone can supply for membership to it which is the basis of how it is run but this membership is restricted to certain people because of riles with in the organization The leaden are President Peter Keele Secretary Rick Saunders and Rust Treasurers Wednesdays you can dance to records Friday nights the OVER DOSE a promising band consisting of Syratt Mike Hockey Tony Meech Peter Keele and Bob provides the entertainment The local group has a good rock beat does tine original material and in all probabil ity they also possess the best blues sound to be found in the area So if make it into this accomplish ed lib organization it will be while Another place of interest in town is the park behind East Heights where a number of teens show up almost every night weather permitting The people are friendly and the atmosphere is re- taxed often made that much better by guitars brought by the park goers Its a good place to talk and meet new people excellent to get away from the drag of normal afterschool evenings Dear Mr and Mr We would like to explain a point expressed in the Oct column which you have undoubtedly misinter preted In reference to the quality of local bands we meant that these groups are not as good as the first- class professional musicians which have played at Huron Heights in the past not stating that were lack ing in talent They undoubtedly have the same potential maybe more than the fine Toronto and area bands book ed last year in Aurora Richmond Hill and Newmarket They will however need the experience which the established leading bands already possess and the support of their local public Being in the position of an outlet for young people we were sup posed to represent these opinion and we must put this first If we are to support the local bands also since the listeners lEispcctfullv Yours Mark Craig and Allan Ward THE ERA Scving York County Since Incorporating THE POST impress THE HERALD DAVID HASKELL Publisher WILLIAM J Associate Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor GEORGE News Editor 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 15c each or by carrier 60c per month Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Second Class Mail registration number Phone Newmarket 8952331 30 Charles St Phone Aurora