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Wed 5 THE ERA HASKELL TERRY CARTE DONALD GEORGE Sadistic solution Aurora Reeve Evelyn Buck hit the nail on head last week when she termed remedial legislation Ontario passed to relieve tax problems caused in York County by reassessment a sadistic solution designed to make county politicians choose between two bills neither of which offer effective relief See story page 1 Now when the result is an unhappy one the province well you made the choice Last week county council with the of both Newmarket and Aurora town councils asked for a solution that will provide relief from the swing in the tax burden from business and industry to homes The politicians were privately admitting however that their resolution wont carry much weight at Queens Park It should however Reassessment was urged on York County in lfli7 by provincial officials and they used the county as an experiment before taking over county department and embarking on similar programs other areas The experiment cost county taxpayers million and now they must help pay the tab in the other through provincial taxes As it turns out the experiment wasnt altogether In fnct provincial assessors say it was badly botched up in some areas If York County Council doesnt get quick action from solution the warden should call an emergency meeting and consider whether to advise constituent municipalities to ignore the new assessment and the various pica provincial legislation and to revert to Inst years everybody goes to work lo straighten out the system for next year Province should act Metro Toronto has finally revealed its priorities regarding the proposed Highway and they dont look bright for York residents In fact they make it imperative that Ontario Highways department take some action immediately to take this veto power Metro holds over the project away from the city Last week Metro Roads Commissioner Sam Cass said the vital link from the end of the Don Valley Parkway to Steeles Ave for which the whole highway project is held up wont be built by Metro for at least years Ontario Deputy Highways Minister Cam told a Newmarket recently that if Metro would agree to build this 1- miles of highway within its boundaries Ontario would start work on the balance of the highway as far north as Newmarket immediately Highway 101 dominates Hie whole economic future of the eastern half of the new Region of York We cant afford to wait years let alone for its construction Neither can the province Its own master plan designed to regulate growth in this part of Ontario between now and the year 2000 makes this obvious The TorontoCentred Region plan states Highway 101 is to be a vital factor in the growth Ontario wishes to encourage in the area Scott Young a hardworking lot like enjoyed themselves in a different manner I was disgusted to sec them drinking In cars and trucks and sometimes In the open To you people who recognize yourselves in this up i In kids There is thei Im not one of those people who get all venr when the wire services carry that doctors in Canada average Maybe nobody else is bothered either except politicians feeling they can make a little hay in the line Most people I think are so glad to have a doctor when they need one that if he can make a good living at it well fine On the other end I imagine too that the doctors who pull knew He was obviously about half- Another thing they have lo be sort of pillars of the community or the word gets around pretty fast I remember being in one doctors waiting room in the country when he had an old lady in his office She was a wraithlike teetotaller who came in about once a month to tell him about the tilings that made her go bump in the night The doctor was giving her his usual rapt attention when the phone rang listed as About an hour after the post office opened the next morning the man cime in and plunked down Take it or leave it he said angrily and steamed out leaving the doctor with a little insight into human nature that he has used judiciously since I remember another one dead now One snowy night on a backroads call he bad to walk the last halfmile along the drifted road to where average away up are specialists in big city while my acquaintanceship runs a lot to general especially in the a farmhouse and set her bed clothes was drafted by our doctor to drive 85 miles to a hospital This was the nearest one with the kind of equipment he thought was needed and he could not drive and look after the poor little girl and her parents along the way I made it in not much over an hour but the little girl died anyway I wont forget the ride home just the two of us i doctors dont suffer and have a drink In the hush that followed everybody the waiting room could hear the doctor say that a pretty shiftier couple with several kids He delivered the newest claimant to the baby bonus and then found that no preparations of any kind had been made no bed clothing or anything If you think he Then he hung up the with gentle smiles Therefore it has hcen great concern to the age to sec that traffic its are installed at the Head Junction It has been my under rating that the Ontario has hcen in- s need through petitions ice for drinking and letters Disgusted Spectator With the population of our village nearly tripled In Editor size due to a would like to make ing subdivision the need for in open letter to the traffic lights has become lo Department of imperative In order gain access to this subdivision Gentlemen one must cross Highway complaints In the name of efficiency If so I would in the Conservative admin istration next election DAVID BURNS Bond Head this situation He bawled the old girl living daylights out of the mother and father The father later told some of his cronies it was a highlight in his lifetime of listening to plain and fancy swearing While the old doc spoke however he was peeling down lo his long flannel underwear This he took off and lore into pieces In these he wrapped the bain ami a little bed for her Then he left Bill Smiley What a day to write a light breezy column The rain is coming down so hard and steadily for the third day in a row that even the birds are liking The cat had made a mess on the floor when I came down Threw her out into the rain and saw my garbage can on its side the contents spewed all over the lawn Coons Oh well The sun will shine again The cat will mike a mess again And the coons wilt pry off the garbage sugar and spice Scrum Crier By BILL GAMBLE view point plan Originally this custom was confined to trees In olden times it was believed that all trees were hol low and that fairies dwelt within A few on the bark of a tree usually meant that one fairy was required on the double to dispel bad luck and shoo away evil spirits Now grannie was a stickler the only person I know who can turn me from a jovial duffer into a thinlipped emotional hacker my wife Same old pattern I try to give her a few tips She gets sore and tells me to shut up and try to hit a decent ball myself Third time she tells me I get sore and the rest of the game played in grim and stony silence with only the odd the presumably By Thursday we were speaking again and alls wrong with the world But and that night went to an exhibition of modern the only one we have art The artist is a former student of mine Now It hasnt been all bad this week Tuesday I know what he was doing while we were studying i good soak in the sun at the beach and a brisk King Lear He was doodling Powerful doodling 12yard swim We of golf with to judge from his work Gilbert of watden almost with a a p Invariably weeks when all wonders if there ill be three corn- lank pages or the swings full circle which may never political aspirants demand ing that the highest authori ties In the land step In and halt this flagrant abuse of a service to the next to Impossible o tell the voting public just what a great Job we arc doing wall and everyone tells you what wonderful weath er they had at 1ollullon Reach when you know get I Finally being swamp ed with national and inter national reports strikes and threatened strikes the thought came to us as to the outcome of a will march In and take over the whole operation and they likely could too free a tew thoughts mauds and caring less and Impact on the environment a proud carpenter and some day a famous Canadian painter The exhibition was in the house of another talented young artist Hugh Delightful evening Punchbowl coffee and lots of talk The as wore the last to leave except for a draft dodger his very pregnant wife They make potion in a nearby village He loves in Nice Quiet gentle honest We made it to the car about am mo luring a punt mi and the old girl a big chunk of sculpture on trial home and while I was putting the car away the police called Asked inv wife if inn bail been stolon baffled replied that wed just homo in it Cop asked to check and make sure She wis about to gie him an 1 innod and told him no Seems lhe it seen it parked had been keeping an eye on it and we bad dipped off with it when the w is going around the block idotit Congratulated on their efficiency And o to bed Friday fair and line Coud show as wed been invited yachting Fair breeze good skip or hot sup blue skv hoi cold drinks and tall ladder against hi Within a half hour a dozen or so persons went by and of them without exception walked around the ladder No one seemed anxious to walk under it This proved to me at any rate that there are more super stitious people living amongst us than we imagine and I felt oddly disappointed at the revelation As Irishman I feel that If kind of personal heritage enjoys seeing his tnge flaunted by every Tom tenth mentioned that we felt great or hadnt a care in the world it did him no good at all to knock on any old piece of wood that was lying around such as tablelegs pencils hi window lodges No sooner had the hasty words escaped his lips than grannie Dick and Harry Some will tell you that super stition is a descendant of fear while other will tenaciously argue that it is a substitute for faith Be that as it may but you can readily see bow lack of proper knowledge of this delicate emotion could lead to endless speculation as to the validity of gnomes goblins Now being an old goblin from way back I feel I can speak with some authority on the subject of superstition and the irch The 19 ye la old of thing 1 islands sot so of a motorboat was the world out among the green it all as Brule night have over years a only nautical lei subject a heat soaked mentality kept suggesting all the vital political muni and governmental up- roars now In progress or soon starting and the en waned It appeared to be of hose weeks when most of the population of County decided to sympathetic strike even right here In York County la the first place you wouldnt pasteup should pick up a bright character revived the old we could give our own BUI amble a bell and even then what would be about Without the tempting food ads and hose ungainly- legged females in the ladies wear advertising we have visions of the women wbo can generally find a more practical most problems band ing together as are those in England and informing Now our mind Is the thermometer down along with and time lo splice the But I would sutelv admire to have a boat like thai stand alt at tho tiller and snap Captain Blight like orders lo my wife as our host did You should have seen thai poor girl iround luffing the jib and raising the mains and sti iigj with tho anchor llcr knees win- red from kneeling on the deck while she hauled away at something or other We slid into a com as silent and secret as it was years ago Delicious supper after a ioitk of fi main races Then i the Thunder lightning of rain Vu pleas ml In In a landlubber sit in the cabin dunking i of feu anil watch through the hatch skipper and wife in oilskins hoisting anchor and Kitting tinder way Fine trip home miles of sailing behind and only three people scared out of six Daughter Kim home Saturday sick of squalid job in squalid city lip curled when saw the artwork and heard of the boat trip snapped So youve joined the jet set you Jealous on look at it il can never be refuted For instance if you break your leg on Friday you will the significance of the date had a streak of luck and broken leg on Thursda instead Similarly the result of an may be adversely or fav orably explained depending on how the superstition strikes you A chap playing roulette at Monte Carlo who seven times in a row play ing number seven Seven became his lucky number Then playing num ber seven again he lost everything he had in the next eight trvs His superstition ledger would have balanced had he not ended it all by jumping off the roof of a seven storey building As a true Donegal Irishman was weaned on superstition My old grannie drummed it into us from the time we were knee high to a leprechaun Youve probably heard of the knocking on wood before I had skin on my knuckles I just keep my big mouth shut Black cats crossing our paths turned out to be another disputable superstition They were supposed to bring good luck but only accord ing to grannie if you made the Sign of the Cross four times on your forehead for every cat that crossed fine through a slit when suddenly a whole army of black cats shot out in front of me When I arrived home my face was covered with blood I had almost ripped my forehead to shreds try ing to keep score at four Signs of the Cross per pussy I vividly recall one supersti tion that grannie favored above all others and that was the custom of throwing a shoe after anyone who was being taken to hospital Ft was reputed to insure their safe return it so Happened that my grand father was leaving for hospital one day to have all his teeth pulled The old boy had turned in the door way to goodbye at the same time that grannie had let fly with of his work hoots To my know ledge he never did have the rest of his teeth pulled get back to the ladder on Main St along came one man who walked right under it Anxious to congratulate him I said a not superstitious Used to be he said Stepped off side- ladder and dont usual-