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Cohoe salmon would cure Simcoe smelt invasion Dales NEWMARKET A man who has fished Lake Simcoe for years warns that fishing will end soon unless the smelt population is elim inated And the best way to do this says Joseph Dales is to Introduce Salmon into the lake Mr Dales is backing a suggestion made in the legislature by York Lands and Forests Minister Rene first agreed with the sug gestion but changed his mind after consulting with officials of his depart- cure might be worse than the disease said Mr Mr theory is based on the fact that the Cohoe has a huge appetite and cats nothing but small are already in Lake Simcoe They contend the number of t now in the lake has not curtail ed fins Mr Before the smelt were so num erous five years ago we would five small for every large one Now its a rarity to catch a small whitefish Mr Dales said the Lands and Forests decision was bureaucracy at work again They said smelt isnt harming the fishing and to admit that they are now would mean they are making fools of themselves Mr Dales challenged Lands and Forests to place some smelt in a tank along with some small whitefish and lake trout They would then see just how fast he smell ate the smaller fish He called on all anglers and hunters groups to poll their member ship to sec how the catches were this past winter This would show he said that fishing is down from previous years He added that fishing over the past 20 years had been consistently good until the smelt about fie He contended that the smelt was Ihe Cohoes natural food The smelt because they are so numerous would be eaten by the Cohoe before any other fish he said like the smelt They are also a cold waler fish and would not eat the younger bass and lake trout which arc born on the warm shoals The fact that nobody is catching small is definite proof that smelt arc killing the popu lation he claims This decline in whitefish is go ing to make Lake ice fish hut operators suffer badly as white- fish is the prime winter catch These men have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in their industry As well as restoring Lake Sim to what it was before tho arrival of Hie smelt the introduction of Cohoe would make Lake the best sports fishing take in this part of Can ada said Mr Dales Lions will build new wading pool NEWMARKET The Newmar ket Lions Club have offered to build a wading pool in a town park on the cast side of town The pool will probably be built at Stmnyhlll Park council was told Monday The Newmarket recreation com mittee have agreed to supply the site and take over and maintain the pool once it is constructed THE JHLJU- PAGES VOL 119 NO ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 1970 Expect fans PLAN GEORGINA ISLAND ROCK FESTIVAL crisis intervention service I Establish crisis centre in Newmarket NEWMARKET The above in signia tells the story A crisis intervention centre serving the NewmarketAurora area is now open Located just east of York County Hospital on Davis Drive it has a staff of five and Is partly fin anced by a grant from Addiction Re search Foundation Ankh Is the Egyptian word for life The Egyptian symbol for ankh Is the keynote of the above insignia The centre is part of a program designed to serve youth throughout York County And tonight another facet of that program will spring to life when Newmarkets dropin centre stages its official opening in the old Newmarket Motors building on Bots- ford St The is invited to attend tonights opening Admission is free Local roek bands will be on hand to perform Last Sunday the dropin centre committee staged a rock festival featuring local talent and several hundred teenagers attended The dropin centre committee raised about from the event A teenage walkathon will pre cede tonights official opening of the dropin centre SUTTON Negotiations are un der way to hold a huge rock festival on Island It is expected to attract people The festivals promote other Ontario centres At a meeting last week between Mr representatives or the Indian band legal counsel and representatives of the County health unit Hie promoter agreed to place a deposit in trust to wards a rental fee of The threeday festival is schedul ed for sometime in August and the rent will cover a month prior and a month after the event The festival would bo held on about acres of the threemile long would not interfere with life at the Indian settlement as there is a fence cutting across island There is also thick bush and swamp between the settlement and where the festival is to bo located There is a total of about acres of land area on the island huge fleet ot boats would be transport people to the STORM DAMAGE After only a month in their Avenue home Mr Mrs Jim had it struck by lightning during a thunderstorm hist week The lightning struck the tree in front of the home pulled down the hydro wires and started a flash fire in the basement control panel In he meantime Hie falling did its own damage the verandah roof at the adjacent home of Frank Dowser Fears of flooding in he subdivision failed to materialize as all basements were dry after the heavy downpour White Photo Town to pay firemen to stay in town Town council hiring three fulltime 1 three more by the end of is left without a fireman in town He asked council to consider paying men to stay in town and be on call teer firemen on call each weekend Under the system one man will al ways be at the fire station The men will work throe hour shifts The town used to pay five fire men each to be on call for a 188- hour week but Chief said the A Municipal Fire Protection Sur vey completed for council lato last year by the Ontario Fire Marshalls office recommended that the town start hiring full lime firemen for the festival Mr said he would hire his own security force and provide helicopters to transport entertainers and to lake the ill from the island Ho said he would build sanitary and medical facilities and anything else the Indians felt was necessary The area in which he plans to bold his festival has three large clear ings He proposes to build a square stage on one of them Mr is to make the de posit to Stewart Fisher of the legal firm of Fisher and of Toronto He said he would charge a price and hopes to gross by the Indian money by leasing their island land Earlier proposals to lease it for homes and apartments were rejected by the Federal Government And the Federal Government has the final say in this latest pro- Regional govt can lower town taxes reeve Regional gov- has lowered taxes in other is whore it is operating and it who bad just return- i had assured him costs first year The reeve was speaking to a re solution tabled by Councillor Aubrey Smith and seconded by Councillor Bob calling on the province to scrap its regional government propos als When the vote came not even Smith and voted for the rcso- Weve been given to believe that Mr and bis cohorts knew what they were doing but now Im not so sure said Mr He cited the controversy over the size of the new regional council and over the south boundary of the new region If they dont know what they are doing on simple matters like that how can they know about what it will cost us he asked Mr Salisbury pointed legislation on the York the boundary at Ave Any future move will have to be negotiated he said Councillor Herb said feel Newmarket did well We got ex actly what Newmarket has been trying best southern boundaries because it retained St Johns the boundary is rods north of the road and East benefitted the northern boundary is south of Green Lane Mayor Tom said he ad worked out the boundaries and he them because he felt New market bad little assessment to gain by taking in the two roads and would be stuck with high maintenance costs Newmarket backs council it the council instead of last Monday Councillor Bob refused to vote and Deputy Reeve Bruce Eves voted in favor of a precipitated by letter from Municipal Affairs Minister which asked council to pick one or the other Mr originally propos- the smaller council and still favors it single seat allotted to it wasnt enough and asked for another This set off a hi reaction which ended in tho council size Newmarket went Now Aurora has had second thoughts and the minister said he has had several other letters asking for a smaller council said the mayor Last week Aurora council decided to ask for the smaller council Reeve Clare Salisbury in defen ding the larger council contended the He contended Aurora got the Howe people will bo needed work At least for the first term it will require as many people as there are now he said Once theyre in there they wont vote themselves out of a seat thats for sure said Deputy Reeve Eves Mr said he objected to voting on it at all because I dont agree with the basic position He feels representation by population the system the minister is using to allot seals will give control of the county to the southend municipalities DORIS SAYS Town water has little worms in it NEWMARKET This water has worms In II Councillor Doris said waving a bottle of murky brown water at her fellow councillors Ami it Mrs Blair said residents of Arthur St area have been living with brown water with worms In ft for over wo years and they are fed up these people are desperate They brush heir in it and they bath their babies In It but they wont drink it she said I think its terrible that people have to live his way Cant something be Mayo said like that brought her bottle or In here he The mayor said he flic water tested by Ontario Water Resources Commission and they pro nounced it drinkable He said the problem steins from he deep wells Newmarket uses The wafer has an iron content and when It meets certain materials thai gather in be pipes It forms salt He said it would lake a lot of money fake the salts out but con ceded that the town might be able to do something for he Arthur SI Muriel St area I suggest that some of the mon ey being spent around this town be nllotlcd to fixing things like this sin Mrs Blair Readymix firm refused rezoning site on Mulock be to allow outside storage of materials was turned down by town council Monday night S MeCord Co were seeking the amendment for a ready- mix batching plant The site is bet ween the CNR tracks and the Holland The firm can still build the plant but must erect storage build ings for materials Company lawyer Lloyd Mays said executives had not de cided whether to go ahead with the project if the amendment request was turned down In voting against the amendment council was endorsing a recommenda tion by the town planning board was zoned for heavy industry in He said the amount of materials the firm would store outside would be Ho agreed that Mulock was inadequate for use by heavy trucks as an objecting group of ratepayers He said the firm may go ahead and build the plant and use the type of conical building used by the high ways department for material storage