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THE ERA WED JUNE VOL NO P A G E Editorials Town must control planning When Newmarket Planning Board requested last week that town council invite a builder to plan a key parcel of townowned downtown real estate before the planning board itself recommends a use it revealed itself to be lamentably with the times A prime function of Ontarios TorontoCentred Region plan is to return planning to municipal planners one of the big benefits of regional government will be initiation of strong planning control at that level and the prime motive behind town councils own freezing of development was to give it lime to acquire a strong official plan so it not developers can call the shots Strangely this need for a call for a development freeze both The town purchased the question because it is a key parcel in i whether backed by public or priva official plan and the first public from this same planning board Motors building the site in downtown redevelopment scheme Oh for the life of a teacher Show me a teacher in June and Ill show you a character with a crumpled shirt a wrinkled brow and it desperate look in his eyes His spirit is treading the lush green of the course His inward eye is contemplating he dark swirl of water under a lug in a trout stream And Ills pudgy hotly is there in the classroom which is more like a steam bath Room Before him loll students eyes glazed minds turned in iiiijHil hi lit- win or a or just lying in the sun Chief difference between them is that the kids are arrayed in their coolest while he adhering to some and ridiculous tradition quietly steams in his swaddling of memos from the office telling you to be in three places and doing three different things at the same time Or so it seems mistered that would murder mathematician and writ ten down in six different places There are new hooks to be ordered and old books about 10000 in my to be sorted and counted and shir id tie jacket and The students are there only because they have to stick around to write lasthope tests and find out whether theyve been pro bus decreed Its not exactly what we in the socalled professions jargon call a good learning situation Someday i the schools on the first day of and open them on the first day of August June is month for joy in Canada not imprisonment in a sauna bath The days are long the mos quitoes havent really found the range and the world is green and glorious By August the sun has lost some of its blast the days are short er and that first wild lust for the of summer has School could run from am to 1 pm and still he a decent chunk of a summer day to be enjoyed Its not only heat that makes June rough for teachers Its the lastminute panic There are BY THE WAY WHAT DID YOU GET FOR FATHERS DAY If the town cannot afford to develop the site as it planned a new town hall was to go there council must at least ensure a highquality development there The site has a block of townowned land both east and west of it and redevelopment of this parcel can still be the hue that will bring new development capita into the downtown core A needed service The need for a home care program in Newmarket has sparked an effort to reorganize the Newmarket branch of the Red Cross The Red Cross home care program can provide the equivalent of hospital care in a patients own home and the home care workers will also cook meals look after children and handle other duties With this service patients can be discharged from hospital earlier than at present The critical hospital bed shortage would be eased There is no charge to the patient providing a doctor has recom mended the service and that the iatient is under the care of at least one professional service There is no doubt a home care service is badly needed in New- Some families are paying a week or more for this type of service now here in town A Red Cross branch would also assist the Blood Transfusion Service which provides blood without charge to patients and would provide a disaster service for the area Anyone interested in serving their community as officers of now Red Cross branch should contact Dr J O the Medical Officer of Health THE Readers ERA Dear Edit interim tax hill in the mail last week and if its any indication of what my whole tax bill is going to be Im in for a whopping big tax increase on my One of the big reasons I moved away from Metro Toronto was to get away from these overlyburd ensome property taxes and now my taxes are almost as high as they were in Toronto On top of that I dont have the subways expressways bus ser vices recreational programs swim ming pools and other services I was obviously paying for there What I would like to know is what is being done about this What are our school board trustees and town councillors doing to get us that tax help they keep telling us Ontario is promising IRATK TAXPAYER Dear Editor The Ontario government never seems to allow the right hand to know what tho loft is doing Only six weeks ago Munici pal Affairs Minister McKcough gave us a plan for regional govern ment Mint will consolidate munici palities into nine and which he as sured us would end the Balkaniza tion of our services Then with the other hand the Ontario Municipal Board not two weeks ago moved to perpetuate this same Balkanization Mr wauled to eliminate it decreed thai for arena purposes a part of the new Newmarket will remain an limbury constituency Now Newmarket kids will have to travel three miles to Sharon to play hockey instead of one half a mile of Newmarket arena How silly NEWMARKET HOCKEY FATHER Crier By BILL GAMBLE Approaching old age Some of Ihe j expel- a i to milk IB III- looking over your i the known to fielil The 1 BO irasil mill im ore the bull Hut who There is the Nil Hint Dough ml to teaeh 1 that Matt hty she of the cocky walk and the talk has her ring and will be nobody crazy next year graduating students will probably contribute a lot more to the world than you have as doctors nurses teachers engineers There is special touch of sadness when the kids in the two- year course who are finished with education probably forever inarti culately ell you they have enjoyed their year with you Their future is not iq pastel shades They seem so and vulnerable You have a great wish that at least theyll find happiness if not affluence And finally there are two glorious months ahead in which you dont have to leap to your feet and scuttle somewhere like Pavlovs rats every time a bell rings I think Ill slick it for another year will have to wait till later At Ibis moment my mind is fully occupied with my approaching senility I was reminded of this dreaded prospect in rather graphic fashion Right there in her obtuse scntwl she had inscribed the words lulls card cents Underneath were words Dog food its cents but that is another story Then on a voting girl a family acquaintance acknow ledging my birthday planted the whisper of a kiss on my forehead She was a very kind voiing but that was the cruellest thing she could have done I had never publicly accused of old age before As I edge closer to that cynical No longer can I accept such patronizing platitudes as Being as old as one feels Growing old gracefully and Age being as one feels I feel that one does not grow old hat when one stops growing one IS old And I feel that while all experience is valuable the experience of old has very personal value lefl is experience made up id knowledge thai has arriv ed too late The old man for instance has learned how In deal with advice In he young but he young resent advice unless ils from someone their own age Ami he old In consequence consider more and more thai it is a good general rule to distrust the young Thus he gap Old age Is a disease ami even in Ihe early Mages of disease the refuses to cerium propositions which are self- evident to the young He will for example challenge and even ridicule dogma of progress hat Immut able law of nature by which every urn il mention of the word progress he will i his fat towards what as though the word by itself were unless He will argue that manners ami morals have deteriorated in his lifetime ami is In biased and discontented to derive any pleasure from the latest experiments in music and painting and prose This and unwill ingness to salute new era of ails he attributes to what he calls Ihe failure of compos ers and poets o make trends in meaningless bal the and control which Ihev used to find repressive ami hum iliating they earn lots of money and can mi complain lhil they are Heated as children The are both idols ami executives the cut- world They can indulge with immunity their passion tin hooliganism which too lenient authorities regard as high spirits When he old like his they are merely confessing dial they are out of sympathy with certain manifestations of independence They are admitting Hint they do not really understand problems of But they will sometimes admit ralhei pathetically and with a tolerant smile hat they too were young once and indulged in foolish pranks hut hat their parents kept hose pranks within reasonable hounds Thev will boast of hav ing suffered that las indignity of the young n heating Perhaps the thing lhat run be said in lis defence Is his thill Death which comes to the as iiu enemy comes in he aged as Around the county By DAVE HASKELL Homegrown vcgetnbes are just starting to come Into their own around these parts now And so far Ive enjoyed green onions d radishes from my own garden Patch Three and strawber ries from Ida Bcrtolins dads patch out by the Sutton Road I make mention of this be cause some peculiar things happened to my peas I also mention this be cause there is nothing and Im sure the friendly men behind your vege table counter will agree with me that there is nothing like a fresh fruit or vegetable plucked only mo ments before from your garden I have been growing vege tables for a coons age My greatest vegetable growing triumph took place Toronto about i Is ago grown in my garden from fish I had caught earlier from ducks 1 had shot earlier and frozen That culinary and agricul ture triumph consisted of fresh corn on the cob new potatoes and pens that Id frozen after they had only been off the vino less ban an hour We four of us had whitefish in while wine and a pair of ducks with Stuffing Haskell the pre- dinner ami osldinuer wines were store bought And to think all this all Ibis growing took place in the heart of Toronto When I first saw the waving weeds of Mosquito Manor I thought to myself Boy what a vegetable garden Im going to have here Here I was a stones throw from the greatest vegetable growing area in the world the Holland Marsh black earth Well it hasnt quite worked This will be different though because of fewer mosquitoes a and a fri endly neighbor Rut to get to my aforementioned pea problem put in two rows of peas one week and two weeks later put in two more rows of peas The first two rows have produced about vines out of a possible The sec ond two rows Im batting Why the difference didnt plant my first two the at the at the laugh tike I did when I fin explanation this is one wives tale thai may be true growers consult their for a full moon before police departments put when theres full moon wards are at their hen theres a full moon I The doe tor dates my when each of three children mild be born He was close but not ife a She told hir would arrive at a different time- when the moon was full and she hit the day on the head I should be so lucky with THE ERA Sewing York County Since Published every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket Ontario Inland Publishing Co Limited Subscriptions 900 for two years for one year Single copiea or by carrier per month Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Sec ond Class Mail registration number 1908 Phone Aurora