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THE ERA WED JANUARY 1070 VOL 119 NO Editorials Blundering Newmarket taxpayers are not receiving fair value for the profes sional advice their town corporation is paying its experts to provide The case of subdivision revealed last week is a good example Here expensive homes were on low land bisected by a water course yet received approval from the town building department despite being constructed two feet lower than they should have been The result sewer problems wet basements and unnecessary expense The hassle over the Towercrest industrial land is another example Town council thought it had an option on a section of industrial land vital to the towns future growth When they raised the necessary to take the option up they discovered that despite their option having been approved by the towns solicitor it was so full of loopholes that it may be unenforceable The result at best an expensive legal battle at worst the town will lose the only available industrial land around and consequently the opportunity to use the land to entice new industrial assessment to town Last weeks Ontario Municipal Hoard hearing on the senior citi zens apartments for Eagle St provided us with another example Former mayor Bert Kent the only person objecting to the pro posed 13storey apartment building because not enough townspeople would be residents switched to a new objection at the hearing and caught the town lawyer flatfooted The rub here is that Mr Kents switch could easily have been anticipated His first objection that not being allowed to rent in the building Newmarket people uld probably have been throw The result muchneeded senior citizen apartments have delayed Blunders like these are expensive to Newmarket both socially and financially If Newmarket Council and its department heads cannot assure us they can get the job done properly they will lose it The public will demand that the new regional government lake over such functions as the engineering planning and legal departments SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Sixties were pure bosh Thinking back over the yearend reports of the 19fi0s I real ize that all the experts painted a pic ture of a decade of violence and change probably unequalled in his tory What is especially embarrass ing is the thought that I did the same thing though Im no expert On second thought it was all pure poppycock Its true that The Sixties included these things but the 1940s in retrospect make the 19GQs look like a childrens birthday party Noisy disorganized messy but essentially kids stuff in comparison Surely it was in The For- ties hat todays violence revolt drug addiction sexual freedom dis gust with Die Establishment and all the other goodies of The Sixties their roots As In In the enough to have a job for a night on the tnv newspaper columnist Richard Need- ham pointed out the Croat Depress ion was not brought to an end by our economists or politicians hut by Adolph Hitler War created jobs wages went up prosperity began Sickening thought but true In the Sixties we waxed indignant over Chicago cops for beating dissidents over the head And so we should But in 1he I at ies six million nondissidents of all ages and both sexes were beaten gassed or starved to death And mil lions of others were obliterated with- a placard Hows ing that heroic but unmistakable member of it Sir Winston Churchill That was a far far greater tiling than rioting on a campus Atrocities We had one apparently in Vietnam recently with the Yanks us villains for a change Vile Certainly But is was a mere trifle compared to the atroc ities of The Forties On all sides Tell your kids about Lidice the And then there was the biggest one of all committed by the the atom bombs drop- Drug addiction There wasnt any pot around But I won der how many alcoholics are wander ing around today who got their start when they were and in uniform I could list you a dozen from person- el knowledge Just multiply Sexual freedom Perhaps it wasnt as blatant and selfconsc ious id publicityconscious as it is today but it was there lady it was there Now I dont for one minute mean your husband But those other guys Wow Change Whole countries disappeared Millions of people wan dered homeless New countries -lit- ing that for violence nationalist groups and new itions And the longhaired and bearded and dirty than todays rebels They too were of both sexes as today But they were fighting for something not against everything And they layii and a fine but their lives However us The Six ties werent all rotten neither wire The Forties They produced courage pi need a genera tion that sincerely believed that a better world was not only needed hut could be built They produced entire new concepts of world peace They set the seeds for the end of the old imperialism Never mind that lluse have been frustrated and warp- And as a sideline they produced the millions of kids who a mystery and torn THE Readers ERA Dear Editor We appear to he living in world of curtains the past couple of decades with the iron Curtain Bamboo Curtain and another dozen names for the divisional curtain be tween youth and age There must also be a curtain one passes through when elected to either of the senior governments of this country because as soon as one is in then the confusing talk and answers for the layman start We read in one release that the Prime Ministers costs hundreds of dollars every hour to keep in service and readiness which means in the next sentence that it is also ready to take off for the coral reefs of the tropics or the ski slopes of Europe at the drop of an adjourn- Almost on heels we have costly government commissions beg ging us to cut back on our spending months of time telling us something that any mother with more than two kids knew in and By DAVE HASKELL Last Friday I attended a press conference called by York Sim- ones Member of Parliament John Roberts The was held at the York Curling Club in Newmarket and was attended by re presentatives from The Era Aurora Banner Richmond Hill Liberal and Bradford Witness The electronics media was represented by radio sta tion The Herald and Tribune were invited but representatives did not show up he would call after he was elected in June 19f8 They are designed to inform residents of the riding he re presents of his views on local nation al and international affairs This was the second Rob erts press conference attended and most of twoandahalf hours of this one were taken up with questions and One politician from one little constituency may have little effect but the winker can hardlv lit expected to turn down a raise if his member is sitting in one the charcoal and dark blue pin government seats voting himself an almost per cent alary hike He answers questions in Little wonder we cant see a very professional way rarely parliament for the pickets on the late because he i- to One of answer each que- ion without evasion and to touch on every the ques Bensons April Showers tion might contain The Era will not publish Letters lie Editor Willi a A An Unliftppy Commuter unless the writer Includes Ills complete name anil Names will lie upon request There are no specific restrictions on length bill we ask that letters lie as brief as possible lull the Crier By BILL GAMBLE The unhappy solution The Coach problem knottiest of all those before New market Council was unobtrusively unsnarled we are told at a private meeting between an official of the bus company and members of coun cil last week The end result is that the buses still arent picking up or depositing passengers on Main St Almost audible was coun cils relief flic settlement offered them the chance abort a suddenly unwanted brain child namely a public meeting pre viously conceived in a moment of unbridled impetuosity And who would I a them for cancelling the public meet ing Even an angry crowd of tax payers couldnt expect litem re verse an unpopular decision But alls well that ends well and everyone is happy again i licul Li lint gioup of wo Mam- fame in regularly he said to ask if could leave parcels while did more shopping along Main SI Art betrayed a distinct rate of sadness as he of two old ladies from Keswick who were regular users of Coach Theyd leave their par- en doing In an offhand but obvious ly sincere wav he made a remark thai he could only recall one instance where a discussion about youth had taken place in the House of Commons since he began attend ing sessions in Hi- about the lack of discussion on youth was one of con cern because he obviously feels that this is a most important subject a note of bewilderment a note which suggested thai this important should be Perhaps this of he I Chi ipprc the Continuing on the Cray null i ill mm Unit 1 Mayor views regarding passengers on Main SI are not by all Main Si businessmen formed me one of the reasons for moving the buses off Main SI was because passengers were using the Carlton ml and Shoe Slore for rest rooms Follow ing my column the proprietors of these two establishments informed me that never raised any lions to pissennerM using their pre As Ed of the Curl- In fact he said when the weather wis bid frequent I united wait ing passengers to use he shelter of his premises Brown of Pollocks Store took great exception to the mayors excuse Art told me thai for years he has been inviting passeng ers to avail themselves of the com fort of his store while waiting for a bus He said he has never regretted it for a minute Through the years he said he made it lot of good fri ends by letting passengers use his Regarding the woman who was supposed to have taken ill in his Art said she wasnt a bus passenger bill customer buying a pair of shoes She had a mild attack in his slore and he called the Newmarket police immediately and had the woman moved lo hospital for would use establishments as an excuse for ousting the bus line Ami so is Ibis writer The men with Die grey flannel minds to borrow a should ask themselves what the mini trust means Before ela borating on his remark I should mention in case you dont already know thai your new telephone diicc- lorv was delivered this vear a member of the Lions Club Mine was r I 1 In no ili i than Boeder York County Hos pital administrator The project was pail of Ihe Lions Club fund raising cam paign the proceeds of which go to their many charitable causes Considering thai this pro ject was carried out while we were experiencing an alltime record sub zero climate these men are be highly commended As Al Boeder put it Im not all sure now that our mail carriers gel pay they de- morning a gentleman from Bell Tele phone called me lo say he was spot checking lo find out if I hud rcceiv my new directory Trusting souls these phout people Perhaps this coinera will a Commission on the of Youth Perhaps it will lead to a rlnienl of Young Peoples too as a parent share Huberts concern and bewilder- why our countrys most import- Surely our Members Parliament can find time to discus and perhaps help our most import THE ERA Serving York County Since Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID It HASKELL Publisher WILLIAM J Associate Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor News Editor Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario Inland Publishing Co Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies 15c each or by carrier per month Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Sec ond Class Mail registration number 1908 Phone Newmarket 8952331 Charles St Phone Aurora Phone Keswick Keswick