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THE ERA WED FEBRUARY VOL 119 NO Editorials They made on bananas Readers what you make on the bananas you lose York County councillors Inst week voted themselves a annua salary instead of being paid on per meeting basis They also voted a pay hike to the warden making his annual salary 5000 They also voted to pay Us annually from nothing before and to pay committee in an extra per are six committees this year With almost the county councillors voted to lop off allocated to the Home Society which operates a senior citizens home another allocated to Hills Academy group interested in the treatment of emotionally disturbed children two chops from the budget represent a saving of I the method of their payment from a per diem basis councillors estimate they will attend 10 meetings Dear Editor Pollution Probe a U of based citizens group fighting pollu tion of our environment has asked us to switch from laundry detergents I feel 1 can recommend soap as I have been using Ivory Snow for years basically because of diapers and know that it cleans everything from scruffy childrens clothes to overalls Mine is wringer machine but I used Ivory Snow in laundromats across Canada and back last summer If we all started using soap for our laundry The detergent manu facturers would have to stop using phosphates right now they say they cant come up with a substitute be fore two years Can Lake Ontario wait that long Or will it turn into a lifeless sea of sludge like Lake Erie unpolluted water than having llie whitest wash in town Our waters dont have much time left if dont help stop pollu tion now future generations will say there was something pretty wrong with our priorities MRS ANN GRIFFITHS RR Slouffvllle Dear Editor Once again it is my pleasure on behalf of he members of Council and from the citizens of your neigh boring Town of Aurora to extend con gratulations to you and all members of your staff for the honors recent ly awarded by the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Since The Era has many honors to Newmarket and York County and we join in your pride and pleasure The Town of Aurora looks forward to many more years of mu tual growth in York County RICHARD A Mayor The councillors the two commission a total of receive a total of 37500 the warden total of and the six committee The sum of all these At last weeks county coup ssion councillors wore told that the total in salaries and per diem payments last year came to If you subtract the I960 figure of based on per diem payments from the 1070 figure of based on salary payments you get a total of County In Ihfc illors they made much Dear Editor Enclosed please rind a copy of the resolution passed by the Council of the Township of King congratulat ing you on your success iu operating a weekly newspaper and to extend their appreciation for presenting the news of the Township to its residents WHEREAS the Newmarket Era has won many lop awards for a weekly newspaper TIIEUEKOUK we the King Township Council of tar our sincere congratulations on your achievements FURTHER may thank Dear Editor The Newmarket Police Associ ation would like this little note to be a receipt of their thanks to everyone who participated in Newmarkets 1th Annual Winter Carnival for their as sistance We realize that without the help received from the snowmobile owners clubs and organizations that the Winter Carnival would not be the success that it has been the past four Another note of thanks goes to the parents who brought their chil dren down to the Carnival and to any other person who attended for it is the presence of these people that also make the Carnival a success until next yeai for i erage of Council ing the news to the residents of King Township HODGSON ItA Deputy Clerk Dear Editor 11 is highrise apartments we need in Newmarket not parks and halls for pleasure MRS RUDDOCK SI Docs who keep us kicking Im as guilty as anyone else simultaneously knowing thai its Hilly Hal theres one breed the doctors that makes a whole lot olore mon ey than I do Anil I have no envy nothing hut admiration mil a to get an plcl will doctor lately Takes months lint the vast majority of to doctor I ever met I one who delivered Inc When was a kill our i ilv doctor was Iligvnrd He was sill massive calm loll Though Coil had nisi lake ling was OK In the the of his own middle built from a In summer his fav- hilling fly halls s ill our team He could hi them half a mile de ol One and reputed lo he Ihu of an African went to him ami he said I If yon had your I nose youd call it a pimple The other was a gingerhaired British major a surgeon He was go ing around the bend because there wasnt enough surgery to keep his hand in When he had removed all jKssibIe appendices and tonsils on the slightest provocation he spent most of his lime sidling up to people and asking if theyd been circumcis ed We used to hide when we saw him coming When our kids came along both were delivered by a wonderful doctor Frank t nothing to him pie needed only four hours sleep a night He grooved on tropical fish anil tape recorders didnt give a hoot about money forgot to bill you but was always compassionate and on the job when you needed him ow our family doctor is a plelc for Christmas carol ling outside your with his wife and en and has learned play a creditable trumpet Ive been curling with a doc tor in bis 70s lately enjoy Ills stor ies about he old days wltrii be used a dog cam o tosh be bay hoping there wouldnt be a gap of Open wat er when he go lo the other side He is a courtly gentleman When we picked up our daugh ter at the hospital recently we met species of the breed Young ish lough redeyed from lack of sleep he two hours including his lunch hour to talk to us with out recompense He cared city specialist who is married to an old friend of my wife took lime from his busy schedule to cheek on Kim and alleviate our fears He did not Unthinkable was how a friend it when I explained him thai old- country tradition prevented my wife and 1 from exchanging gifls or cards on Valentines Day And the Inhibiting tradition is that Valentine cards and gifts were not intended for married couples in the first place Relieve il or 210 years ago this February I lib custom icily for men only In those all i bachelors we These silky what ituls of frustration euhul add go nuts did Some of Others of il type would he so tickled at the of having so many admirers thai i order to conceal their exultation take tin igurouslv in front of Iheii faces thus I 11 ably develop pneumonia and di giggling bey Then death girl could bake a dumb loaf which according to legend would enable her dream the identity of her suitor in The Era which caused me a certain amount of While must readers saw nothing more lhan llie geoner as he pinned new sergeant stripes on a recently promoted police officer I had a sudden alarming vision of a bloodstained handker chief The other picture showed members of Newmarket council pull ing al end of a rope while out of the picture we were old that mem bers of Aurora council were lugging strenuously on the other end The exact pin of all this ropepulling was not revealed hut again I bad visions of ricked ankles hernias ami sprained wrists suppose it has never occur red to the musses hat these elected men llie noblest if not the strong est in the land risk life and limb each time lliev are called upon lo per form these dedicatory tasks I once heard of a chap who chopped bis big sod and famous politician had a nasty accident while launching a ship simply because she forgot to let go of llie bottle before it hit the side Now all the recent prom ises of highrise buildings parks and be called upon turn a lot of sods lay a lot of corner stones and snip much tape has am one thought of the risk involved or the cost A local insurance company hummed ami hawed when I tried to the current premium for coverage against such Itul perhaps Id heller leave al that If the full facts were known theyd never eel anyone of import- in In- lie is that a little forethought coupled with a modi less head- in ioI illiliuli I Ili it will preserve the communitys most auspicious occasions from the nil- too- liar wail of the ambulance Around the county DAVE HASKELL The generation sure ap peared to he wide at last weeks drug panel at Maple Leaf School in East tiwillimbury Heights This was evident not so much from the comments of the adult pan el but from the repartee across the floor between adults and teenagers The adults just couldnt seem to understand why teenagers use drugs and the teenagers just couldnt seem to understand why the adults cant understand why they use them if you get what i mean The audience of some 100 or so were told by the experts that mari juana grass as it was called has no harmful effect on the body while alcohol has was told that you can he arrested for having poS while be arrested for having drugs in your possession A teenager asked why there was this strange conflict in the law and didnt receive an answer Well I any drug laws should be amended to suit Here is this strange contra diction can have a basement full of booze which is harm- and not break a law You can have an ounce of grass which the experts say is not physically nrj you can go to jail for a alcohol to achieve the same effects that teenagers used drugs Whats wrong and whats the difference asked one teenager bet ween a group of teenagers having a king grass and a group party ami of adults having a party and drink ing alcoholespecial when grass not harmful and alcohol is Especial ly when the teenagers were told that you can become addicted to alcohol but not to marijuana The message must be gotten hat both marijuana and are harmful The effects of are known and immediate The of marijuana grass are pot- The use of could lead to the use of finiile Iaddicti ve and destro drug iich as heroin just the rye could lead to 1 i bottle and event lallv In ale holism Not grass smokers an dope addicts just the as all ale hoi drinkers 1ul come example 1 point this 1 those ill their late IPs 11 id early 60s How ninny of us as tee at dances sor in the Lack soil t of a car How iiiiy of us ill parents found didnl Hunk all Mil had How then can some re end the action of to- Tecum grass smoking is ugh and gc thinking i nght Maggie when you and 1 So lei s not he too hasty ill on because we hill ourselves THE ERA Sofving York County Sine Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID It HASKELL Publisher WILLIAM J POIR1ER Associate Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor News Editor Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario by Inland Publishing Co Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies or by carrier 60c per month Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Mail registration number Phono Newmarket 30 Charles St Phone Aurora Phone Keswick