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THE ERA WED APRIL 1970 VOL NO 14 Editorials The tax load I The warning issued by county planner Conroy recently that the municipal debt load has reached its limit in York County and his urging that new ways to pay for capital projects be found give new emphasis to the need for a capital levy in municipal budgets this year The idea of levying a specific sum each year and setting it aside for future capital expenditures was the major recommendation in the Town of Newmarket budget Now Mr has pointed out that on a county average cents of each tax dollar collected is eaten up by interest payments and that demands for capital expenditures schools and arenas for instance are becoming heavier than Of be found The county he said the tax load as well as the debt load carried by property owners has reached its limit but in suggesting alternate sources he merely took his hand out of one of the taxpayers pockets and put it in another He suggested more money be obtained from provincial tax coffers or from land developers who must then add it to new home prices We think he should have suggested the policy used by taxpayers in regulating their own budgets pay as you go and if you must borrow dont borrow more than you can pay back The best way for governments as deeply in debt as ours Newmarket for instance shelled out in interest last year in a total budget of million and despite its boast that it is debt free didnt have enough cash on hand to cover shortterm financing expenses for its arena is to start saving for new town halls and arenas with a capital levy The tax load II York County politicians have been so busy worrying about how to rearrange the boundaries of their own bailiwicks under rcgionnl gov ernment that very few have concerned themselves with its financial implications Newmarket Council for instance jumped right in and laid claim to all of East Gwillimbury township right up to Sideroad as well as chunks of Whitchurch and King townships If Queens Park in its magnanimity agrees to their proposal and lumps this whole area together those citizens in Sharon and the hills of Glenville who find themselves in the new municipality of Newmarket or whatever its called will then be entitled to the same services as the citizens of the town enjoy since they will he helping to pay for them They will expect to have their garbage picked up and to bo able to buy their hydro from the municipal commission for instance Rural areas serviced by Ontario Hydro now and when a municipal commission takes over it must buy the utility In East Gwillim for example former reeve Garfield Wright estimates it would cost between and million to buy the hydro utility Perhaps our political leaders should stop quibbling about lines on a map and start haggling with Queens Park over how much financial aid they can xpect to ease the transition to regional government SUGAR SPICE By BUI Smiley How to lose years on beaver dam till muscles stop jerk ing Bait hook with worm No flies Theyre for snobs Casually and beau tifully toss worm just above sunken log Not sunk deep enough Hooked Break line Swear a little On next toss caught in willows Swear a little more On third toss third hook tie into a real tiger At least eight inch es Feel not a day over is in that category If yo its anybody over 15 At its people in their And if youre a hale and hearty you just might admit in a weak moment that you classify as middleaged What it is of course is a state of mind Some people are middle- aged in their and others are young in their 70s Or its a time of year I Theres nothing to do but try to exist through this hiatus And one of the best ways to make it pos sible is to think about how young you will be in July I can see myself now at the beach Take off the sunglasses Stand up to my full height of five-foot- eight And a half Suck in the flab Saunter to waters edge glancing nonchalantly at bikinis rumps and bosoms Stride straight in Swim like a paddlewhceler for yards Pretend to float on back while regaining wind Stride out tall clean brown and not a day over Or on the first tee Eight Smell of sun and grass Flex muscles ominously Three perfect swings that would make Arnold Pal mer green Step up to ball ignoring admiring awed looks of women 1 Straight down the fairway 120 yards in flight and a 10foot roll Not a day over 28 Getting younger every min ute Lets try the fishing Drive to special spot with friend who knows where the big ones are Fight thro ugh swamp and slash to dark brood ing pool behind beaver dam Lie down See Its all in the mind I can forget that my wife is nagging about cleaning up the cellar that my kids are permanent pains in the Another trick that works is to get out the old pictures Theres the fighter pilot with handlebar moustache the deadly whimsical lifted eyebrow that used to slay the and the cocky look of a kid be killed grow old or get Theres the football picture Bill Smiley That means half back not half baked Close my eyes and I can feel the clean smack of the ball into my hands as I leap for a high pass And drop it Not a day over Now dont carry this to ex tremes Dont get out your baby pic tures or the one of your Sunday School class Youll weep at your lost innocence and sob over your smear ed purity Like everything else the something to prevent us from going mad Neither booze nor barbiturates will help Just think young Ive lost at least 20 years j writing this column Im not even afraid to go and look in the mirror I know that behind those dewlaps that gaunt and harassed look lies a light- RISING TIDE im Readers Dear Editor I take great exception lo your newspaper of last week which carried a supplement condemning just about everything about the White Paper The article was very biased and the whole thing was very mis leading dont agree with everything in the White Paper but it is not all wrong A Liberal Editors Note We agree with A Liberal The opinions contained in the supplement were not necessarily those of The Era The supplement was a fully-paid- for advertising sup plement and the opinion of the adver tiser This was clearly marked the top of each page in it z ERA August if he had a shelter to Perhaps if the GO system is delayed too long Gray Coach might bo encouraged to bring up one of the more decrepit vehicles and use it as a protection from the weather Anything but the frigid wastes near the Water St bridge Sam Burden Newmarket Ontario Dear Editor After braving the cold and snow wailing for a Toronto bound bus all winter it appears a little late to expect much to be done about the prospect of standing nut in the heat of the summer on the south end of the parking lot but while the bus company or the town or the service clubs battle out the respon sibility perhaps some smart opera tor could make a small fortune sell ing a cool beer there during July and Aurora Ontario Dear Editor Councillor Stewart of Aurora is to bo cheered Im- his fight to matin Aurora Highlands Golf Club pay the same taxes as any other ing organization I was one of the few persons who rented a snowmobile there and I paid through the nose for it Your story in last weeks Era about them charging for a dinner and a movie shows they must be trying to make a profit They wouldnt he so kind lo to just break oven on their meals and a movie would they I dont own a business only a home and 1 am having enough trouble paying my tnxos without hav ing freeloaders ride on my II i ill I lt ing one then it should in tnxed as a profitmaking business It began with the uplift frankly Im worried Only a few weeks ago more than 100 feminists march ed into the offices of Ladies Home Journal in New York and demanded that editorinchief John Mack quit his job and give it to a woman At he same time Eleanor Dunn assist ant womens editor or the Ottawa Citizen complained a group at Carlcton University that there are no women in senior management posi tions in Canadian daih newspapers As a poor benighted male who prefers wondering if J side down pretty badly We let vole smoke and use lipstick and this is what happens Somewhere along the line we have failed men I was about to ask heie is all going to end But better still lets just consider where all began Now Ive given this quite a hit of thought recently and the more 1 think about the more Im convinced thai the entire blame falls on the bra and manufacturers Regarding the possible in- figuremoulders on ip it might lend iclusion if youd take few minutes out to flip a page or of vour old family snapshot album urn to he section marked the early and lake a slow look at Emma or Cousin Elsie Youd probably underneath that int Emma is thoro pod in used hi known of the Month But then she wasnt a newspaper executive either She did however manage to grab herself a husband and was a good wife and mother Cousin is another Along came and with it the innovation of the first uplift lira Things were beginning to look black for us males Amy Johnson railed Margaret became the first female cabinet minister and Clara Bow appeared on the screen as if nothing had happen ed Men however were still do ing he big jobs Somewhere between the wars were throwing their mon ey away on an unappealing little item called the abdominal support but most women were still content lo let papa bring home the pork while hey slaved home and darned the odd sock or consulted Mrs Beaton on how avoid lousing up the weekend A vear or so later the whole plot to oust he male from his right ful position as world leader began take shape all began when a couple of chaps decided to modify and re model the old abdominal support streamlined it and called it a girdle Then came f he brainwashing Ads appeared in all he magazines telling women about all the wonder ful things I hey could now do You as a great shock lo women to lean hat since the introduction of girdle they could now walk stand i they could do all these things before And although few women ever found much pleasure in bending backward there they were bending backwards day iveive Those whose spinal cords linded intact decided to show he that there was a place for wo- outside of the Gone I the hipless days With new confidence Around the county By TERRY CARTER Two books dealing with ancient and notsoancient history in York County arrived on my desk recently and for a history buff like myself they proved a gold mine Here Was Vinland a book writ ten James Curran editor of The Sault Daily Star in 1938 and long out of print expounds the theory that Norsemen settled the interior of North America from to years before Columbus made his discov ery and by way of proof offers reports of a variety of relics found Among those is a bronze object resembling a candle mould which the author claims as Viking and Rays was found in Simeon County several pieces of iron found on the cast side of Lake Simcoe and a three pound pick axe found near Burlington Mr contends these are evidence that the Norsemen made use of the trail from Georgian Bay lo Lake and south through York County to Lake Ontario which in later years was one of the Indians main The other book to arrive at The Era was a copy of The Illustrated Historical Atlas of The County of The County of York Published by Peter Martin Associates Toronto with Ihe aid of he Toronto Public Library and the Lake Eric Regional Library the original of this enormous volume i by inches was in the as pat depending on whether you buy the deluxe edition or not and contains historical sketches of the county and each township biographies of lead- under copies Over the years the attrition rate has been high Books wore cut apart for their pictures lost thrown out destroyed by water and fire and until the last few decades just neglected Today collectors wilt pay up to for an original The Toronto Public Library provided the original from which the photographic facsimile editions were prepared Newmarket the Atlas explains derived its name from a store estab lished here by Peter Robinson for the settlers and the Indians The book also relates some of the background of William Roe an early Newmarket businessman and postmaster and the man reputed lo have saved the treas ury of Upper Canada from the Amer- He retains his mental faculties in a marked degree and his physical health seems very good although as THE ERA Serving York County Since Incorporating THE POST Cue THE HERALD Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario by Inland Publishing Co Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies 15c each or by carrier 60c per month Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Sec ond Class Mail registration number Phone Newmarket 8952331 30 Charles St Phone Aurora