The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

HOOLIGANISM AT SCHOOL holding meetings were brought to the attention of York County Board of ioii at its Monday night meeting A delegation representing Cub and Sout groups in East i auxiliaries for asked the board regarding hooliganism Leaf Public School Mrs Shirley Garland tonne Ave spoke for Maple had deterior ated to point where she had accom modated some of the meetings in the re creation area of her own home to avoid exposing the Cub Guide and Scout mem bers to personal abuse and insulting Ian and broken into and things stolen the cars where they wore parked She said the police of East Gwil had been contacted and they had teen told that no action could be taken without No Trespassing signs being put up so hat charges could be laid police stated that while they all the time Included in some of the com plaints were cars covered with ketchup while the occupants were In the school groceries slolen from vehicles and ser ious damage to school lights windows Mrs Garland told the board members that the culprits numbered as many as from about 12 years of age and up the language from sexes is disgusting she said and the behav iour Is unspeakable On one occasion she said hoc key sticks had been jammed into the exit and those inside the building Trustee W Bailie of Thorn- hill suggested the board should do all it that patrolling police could to alleviate the situation These people are doing an out job for the community and when lilt I have a better delegates said the May The delegation felt that lighting of the area left much to be desired and some members of Ihe board suggested a study of the school as soon as possible and a change in the lighting system so becoming v and unless some control could be found the Seoul and Guide groups would have In disband Trustee J sug gested ln stuff lake up the matter as as passible and try and work out a plan between the beard and the police de partment which would solve some of the problems SPECIAL REPORT Will Newmarket residents wind up paying for new subdivision services By CARTER NEWMARKET Concern Is mounting among some town council lors and planning board members that established residents of the town will wind up stuck with the bill for services to new subdivisions and hat the town wont be able to do any thing about it One planning board member Ernest Sokol made Era headlines two weeks ago when he said publicly that all development in town should be frozen until the town acquires a land use plan that would give them control over where development goes what type of development goes there and that would allow council to accu rately access servicing costs of the subdivision against the subdivides Now a member of town coun cil Aubrey Smith has endorsed Mr Sokols demand and added one of his own that the town also redraft lis 01 make developers contribute more to wards development of parks and other town facilities The debate has on town approval of the Ed wards subdivision Highland Heights The firm owns land south of Don Dr west of the Eagle Hills subdivision and hopes to start building on it Hits spring Opposition to the Edwards sub division centres on whether the de velopment should be allowed fun nel storm sewage from 23 acres of subdivision into the watercourse run ning north through town instead of draining it south to the Holland River The north system crosses Eagle SI runs behind homes on Carol Ave cuts east through the new subdivision and empties into a creek which flows through the Davis pro perty under Lome Ave through the Park under St Eagle SI and thence into Fairy Lake Town approval of the subdivis ion has been stalled because some councillors fear the extra water dumped into open creeks will cause flooding behind Carol Ave and through the park They are also con cerned that Ihe upstream cost of building a system downstream large enough to handle the volume of water running their Thts issue was further com plicated during the past two months by conflicting reports from experts An attempt to resolve these differences was made at a meeting early in April of representatives of all the dissenting experts Attending were men from the Ontario Water Resources Commission the Conserva tion Authorities branch of the Ontario Department of Energy and Resources responsible for drainage patterns Since I ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 1970 Newmarket 15 COUNCILS SEEK RELIEF Tax shift jumps homes business industry down ON HOT SEAT THURSDAY TOWN page and what about parks to develop by subdividers should be fully developed and equipped Councillor Aubrey Smith maintains Councillor Smith told a recent council committee parkland should be fully developed before turned over to the developer should be charged enough allow the has shifted a substantial portion of the tax load from business and Indus try to homeowners Newmarket homes face a tax hike of well over but property and business tax on industries stores and other businesses will be down substan tially The situation is the in Aur ora In East where there is little industry and few commercial establishments homeowners got a break but farmers were hit hard Newmarket council has refused to complete its budget until it meets with Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy McKcough and Provincial Treasurer Charles Thursday to seek tax relief for homeowners and Aurora Mayor Dick says he has ac cepted an invitation to participate in the meeting King Township has also cancell ed budget meetings until after the Thursday confrontation and Aurora prob ably will do same Vaughan Town ship ratepayers in the south of the county have demanded their council lift delin quent tax penalties appeal their assess ments and are threatening a tax strike While most Newmarket homes now face a lax hike of well over 100 to Reeve Clare Salisbury coun cils finance chairman Town Treasurer Stuart Parks says its too early to tell if there will be cases here similar to the one in Vaughan Township where a man paid last year and must pay this year Mr Salisbury said the delegation Thursday will ask the ministers to allow them to levy 1970 taxes on assess- something One big Newmarket industry est plant got a hell of up four times under the new but only doubled on commercial and industrial property Mayor Illingworth feels New markets problem is general throughout county Wo might even be hit harder than Newmarket he said explaining that this year In re idential scjniLnt of the icmiminity will have to bear a whopping per cent the tax load whic Indus trial and commercial establish mets will per cent A year ago the figures public meeting to blow the whole thing open The only thing we can do Is being it the public and ask for sup- have to levy the Then its up to Ihe people whether they pay them not he said hinting a lax may be in the offing here too York iiinly Die only muni cipal structure in Ontario to complete reassessment of properties at market value in time to use the new figures to the 1970 taxes so it will be a test case Other areas where problems cent of the tax lead this year com pared with per cent by commercial and Industrial establishments Last year Mi Salisbury sil if the council delegation returns from Queens Park Thursday well call a Dr a says the I hasnt successful Reassessment has gotten com ply of hand he said The pro- ll- a look at it of flo a 72inch underground pipe but other sections are open ditches which pass through narrow culverts per cent of his land for parks and public purposes other than highways or pay the town the value of the five see PARKS page EG little change for homes farms up East will pay about the same pro- this year as last but most Taxes on most commercial es tablishments will be down and indica- ivnshlps few industries property in Mount Albert up about 100 but Sedores Ser vice Station on Davis Dr opposite New market down The property tax on Bradford Fertilizer Co one of the townships few industriallyassessed properties will drop rural little or industrial value reassessment has hit farmers harder than average homeowners Mr Hopkins said a sampling of bills which probably their parks hoard and 23 for street lights 75 of a mill for said Mr Hopkins Last they took in the county and public school will pay it itriiiLi last The general township rate which up per cent of the total budget with per cent will for Countys levy is pared 111 from eight per for Land like this piece overlooking the Holland Km Towercrest subdivision must be made into useable parkland at town expense although when finished the new park will he primarily for the use of subdivision residents While photo up to 15 and some are down For instance a Holland Land ing home assessed at which paid last year will pay this To figure out your own taxes multiply the basic rate and your assessment then if you are in a special area do the same for the special rate and add the two Most farmers will pay between In the Union area and in the Union Whitchurch area 36 and in the North Gwil limbury Separate in the Sharon Newmarket and Whitchurch Separate Holland Landing Separate and 11 Sharon Police village 2106 and Sharon Police village separate and Police village 23 Mount Albert Police vil lage and Holland Landing Police village and Festival lists complete NEWMARKET Music from Beethoven to polkas will be available district enthusiasts during the annua I in- scheduled for East Gwillimbury the Festival of Star- Friday night May in Trinjiy United Church Adjudicators will be Miss Irvine for piano contestants Miss Jean Mrs Helen be adjudicator or Municipal officials will be pre sent for the official opening of the Monday evening May at p SOMEONE NEGLIGENT IN QUILTY DEATH CORONER SUTTON Coroner Dr Stu3rt Noble Monday nigh blamed red tape for the lack of action in dealing with a convicted nineyearold arsonist who died in a locked blazing fish hut March been most negligent in the tragic death the day before his death convicted of two counts of arson Juvenile and Farmlv Court Judge George Sweeney of Newmarket had placed the lad under the jurisdiction of the York County Childrens Aid Society but he was cot kept in custody child but merely advise the par to the Juvenile Observation home in Toronto- A psychiatrist recommended at the time that the boy be placed in a cause he was quite disturbed See sory page report on York Countys inadequate facilities for treatment of Jehn of the Childrens Aid Society said he had hoped to get Terry into Hospital but this might six months We could place him in a foster home because of his mania foe set ting fires We were very concerned about him an had been for htm W see a psychiatrist at York County Hospital in Newmarket he said blame on the Childrens hut with no that proper for Sick Children with burns to per cen of his body His mother Mrs Edna Allison said Joey told her in hospital that Terry had poured some oil over a basket of rain- in the fish hut then lit a match She aid the boys climbed into the hut be hind a Jacksons Point restaurant through a small hole in the roof Mr said it was prac tice to return a juvenile back to the knowledge could have been the Childrens Aid regarding place- of the boy in a proper home He was persistent This boy broke into homes for mania of setting fires He became proficient at he said A number of testified they tred to rescue Terry trapped the roof of the burning by Pat Barrows said he heard a high scream and tried to calm Terry but he died before they could get him out The jury ruled that he had set tie In cases such as this Hows this for take out service Sutton Road just north of Or he at midnight lo when the thinks someone taking lili take arrived I a out service a little too literally In a breakIn and theft to the insult they took it out of the must have gone to where the was hidden Mr Tin East Polk are