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Era Out Wed May AURORA BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS AURORA Aurora town coun cil given two of Ike necessary three reading to the town both get Final approval now Is only a formality after Queen Park irons oat the tax brought about by reassessment assessed at The residential mill rate pub lic school supporters Is One thousand dollars of residential as sessment will raise in taxes Education costs constitute about million 55 percent the tax levy Thats a increase over last year Major increases in expenses are shown for roads sewage disposal plant police and fire protection and debenture debt and bank Interest charges Earn a place in someones heart Give to the Red Shield Appeal The unwanted children the aged a call for help To provide the destitute the alcoholics the the homes hospitals clinics and potential suicides all the thousands other services necessary in distress turn to The Army for the dignity of humanity The Salvation Army never refuses The Salvation Army needs your help Captain 30 LUNDYS LANE NEWMARKET TEL 8956276 First topic on Mayor Tom Surgeoners agenda for discussion this week was the crucial meet ing between East bury and Newmarket coun cil representatives and Mu nicipal Affairs Minister held to settle the political and geo graphic status of the two municipalities under reg ional government Heres his report No firm decision was made on where the boundary between Newmar ket and East should be or on whether there should be one at all when members of Newmar ket and East councils met with Munici pal Affairs Minister Darcy and MPP Bill Hodgson May 20 Three All members of Newmarket Council were invited to this meeting but only the mayor and Reeve Salisbury saw fit I had a much stronger dele gation there Reeve Gladys Rolling Deputy Reeve Ray and councillors Highland Heights iains of a portion of this industrial land From previous ex perience I can say as the mayor that I find It very difficult to sell industrial land In this town yet we arc left without from to service this land purchased from feci there Is no such thing as a town where progress stands still We cither go ahead or fall backwards and to do nothing tosit pat Is to lose ell opposing the subdivis ion to offer some concrete alternative ways to Improve the towns financial condi tion Rather than be ing just critics perhaps they would come forward the town can acquire the services It needs without ties MAYOR total amalgamation and the prob lems this would Involve the possibility of Davis Dr re maining the boundary and the possibility of abandon ing regional government al together The very urgent need for an arena In East Gwillimbury was unani mously agreed upon and the meeting agreed this the Highland Heights division proposal Once a gain members of this council have rejected a written letter from the new town engineer stating that after exhaustive studies this new subdivision would not put undue strain on the ex isting facilities of the town The council at the same meeting voted to spend approximately for the acquisition of the industrial lands in the Towercrest subdivision said a strong lobby against the subdivision was at work prior to last weeks coun cil He said seve ral council members and at least one planning board member received telephone calls asking them to vote against the Highland Heights proposals or write- letters opposing them as was the case Grace ASSOCIATED GOSPEL CHURCHES 373 Botsford St Newmarket Ontario MINISTER Phone 8959990 A BIBLE BELIEVING FAMILY CHURCH Services SUNDAY May 31 945 Dont pay ami talk CREAM and SHIMMED MILK You Arc Always Welcome at Grace NEWMARKET PLAZA SHOPPING CENTRE Davis Drive Newmarket ANNOUNCES BARBADOS BONANZA PASSPORT WINNERS Not MRS Broodwo Ave Toron WINNER OF FINAL DRAW both East and Newmarket repre sentatives said they felt that bate the mayor added this Councillor Hob one of the subdivisions strong est opponents was invited to meetings councils special subdivision commit tee to discuss the Highland Heights proposals but said opposed Highland Heights subdivision because he said he didnt have suf ficient opportunity to parti It shows the town to be in a sound position The net in debtedness per capita has pertyvnlue urea would not place an un due burden on properly rive council asked the may or to beard the Hon In his den ask Municipal Minister a formula for tax ation in 1970 but it Is to be tried out first in said Mayor Surgcon- Then if it is accept able to council and works in the Ontario governments computers we will be able to issue our tax bill in the first week of June Offer reward in murders NEWMARKET Rewards totalling have been offered for in formation about the murd ers of the wives of two high school teachers as po lice scour the area around Newmarket The special squad of police Is searching for the murderer of Mrs Hel en Ferguson of the area and Mrs Dore- Moorby 34 of The reward was offered this week after the two women had been shot in separate incidents 12 days apart The search for the killer believed by police to have shot both women is being headed by Chief Inspectors William va and Archie Ferguson of the OPPs Criminal Inves tigation Branch The similarities between the two killings lead police to believe they Both murders were brutal the women were shot in the back and in the head by 22 calibre bullets in remotely located hom es Mrs Ferguson on No Highway yards from the road and Mrs Moor- by at an isolated home near Gormley Fergusons son Dale was home from school with the mumps and saw the killer as he left and Mrs Moor- bys son Brent was pinned beneath his mother after she was gunned down Both murders oc curred about the same time of day and both women dicated a sexual attack But in the case of the Ferguson murder there was a witness nine-year- old Dale He told police the man who shot his moth er was between 35 and was of dark complexion and needed a shave Police ask anyone with any information about either murder to contact them through any local REGIONAL continued from page will also be elected directly Yorks first regional election is scheduled for Oot In Mr first pre scription for the York Region regional councillors other than the mayor were to have been chosen by each local coun cil from among its membership Under the new setup for the regional council municipalities will have following representation numbers in parentheses denote Ihe representation prescribed by Mr on May Newmarket 3 Aurora 2 1 1 King Whitchurch East Georgina Richmond Hill Vaughan Mr and various mem bers of his staff worked alongside the Inter- Municipal Committee the county mayors and reeves to thrash out final details of the new legislation The Monday session lasted from am to just after pm Mayor Dick of i told The Era that while several nor boundary changes were made no ac tion was taken on countervailing requests by Markham and Whitchurch to modify their common border Mayor Tom of New market said the regional government le gislation will go to the Legislature within two weeks I think it is going to work out all right but there will bo a terrific work load both for staff and elected peo ple he predicted Mr Surgeoner said the boundary between East and Newmar ket Is pretty well in line with the origin al proposal It will be rods south of the Green Lane at the north end and 40 rods north of St Johns Sideroad In the Mayor said that most mayors and reeves left the meeting with a feeling of satisfaction I think that with these changes youre not going to come up with a much better plan the mayor said The changes should satisfy Au rora which recently indicated to Munici pal Affairs officials that it wanted more than one regional seat The original plan based representation on a population basis Aurora teetered be tween one and two seats with a population of in its expanded boundaries under the regional plan SUBDIVISION continued from page 1 port of the bylaw before vote was taken but afterwards both the mayor and reeve spoke Reeve Clare Salisbury who was chairing the hearing on the bylaw said I feel we have taken a step backwards as far as this town is con cerned he then told council He pointed out the subdivision agreement had been discussed and changed over a period of many months that both the present and former town engineers endorsed it as well as a num ber of other engineers consulted and that planning board and subdivision com mittee had supported it The reeve said the houses in the proposed subdivision would be assessed at an average over the towns breakeven point outside their subdi vision and he pointed out these would also service part of the indus trial land council had voted to purchase the same evening He also pointed out Edwards planned to start building a square foot factory as soon as the agreement was approved When everything Is hashed out with the Municipal Affairs department he said referring to regional govern ment I think we will need this type of industry The reeve finished by saying he saw no reason for continuing to have a special subdivision committee Forhan rebutted saying the spe cial subdivision committee which met on this subdivision consisted on the mayor the reeve and the deputy reeve and since He charged council has his representative present Im not knocking this subdivis ion but we have to decide whos call ing the tune said Mr Forhan Do we develop when were ready or when some developer is ready The mayor then gave the chair back to Reeve Salisbury so he Surgeon could speak streets in the older part of town he said The mayor said new subdivision houses pay about more in taxes than homes in the old part of town and re quire less servicing He pointed out Edwards has in dustrial land and must build factories on it or lose a bond he has posted with the i place to work said The mayor said this town stuck with its old arena and heavy penditures on old roads and services cause in the old days we did all building without planning