TOWN MANAGER aims to overhaul administration NEWMARKET One of Mayor- elect Bob first jobs this month will be to seek advice about the towns administration- He will consult with Provincial Government officials to determine whether or not Newmarket should have a town manager Mr will also seek ad vice regarding the responsibilities and duties of the town clerk and his staff and whether or not additional staff is required By doing this I dont wish to imply in the slightest any dissatisfac tion with the present staff said Mr Forhan But we will soon have a lar ger area and more population to ad minister it may be that such a position as a town manager would be more advantageous will be going to Queens Park with Regional Councillor Ray Twin- soon to discuss this and other aspects of municipal administration They have the facts and figures down there and I can apply them to New market In a postelection interview with The Era Mr Forhan said that the top priority facing him when he takes office is to improve Newmarkets water problems Mr Forhan pointed out that Newmarket presently has a well cap able of supplying the watershort east part of town and any reasonable de velopment in that area We have the water in the ground but it will cost us more than to construct a tower and install pipe he said Water services will be a Re gional Council responsibility after Jan and it just depends on which municipality has the top priority But our needs are well known throughout the Region and I feel that we will be well up on the list so that we can improve an already poor situation and provide water for future development On the appointment of Garfield Wright as Regional Chairman and Jack as chief administrator Mr said Give them a chance They are just new at a difficult job the same as we Regional Coun- But we can accomplish much more much faster if we all work in harmony said Mr Forhan On Newmarkets future develop ment he said that the main develop ment should go to the north where the services are He felt the vacant area within the town limits should be developed first with some emphasis placed on the Sidcroad area We shouldnt hop across Street until there are services there said Mr Forhan Planning will be a five muni cipality project for this area with Newmarket at the centre said Mr Forhan The Planning Committees the five councils should get together and submit a joint proposal for the area to the Regional Planning Board he suggested We must sit down with East Gwiliimbury King and Aurora to see what they want to do with the lands touching Newmarkets borders Theres no sense in Newmarket placing factories along the St Johns for example if Aurora wants to build houses lose Zephyr wins Era gains Buck Zephyr Spud Kings are Ontario Amateur Softball champ ions by sweeping the finals 2 on Page And Aurora Reeve Eve lyn Buck gives her opinion on the new Regional Council in the first of a series of columns on Page AIRPORT NEAR NEWMARKET ERA 32 PAGES VOL NO CENTS Newmarket 895 Aurora ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1970 15 CENTS New mayor new addition A fourth son was horn to the family on Saturday morning less than a week after his daddy Bob became Mayorelect of Newmarket The left their Park Ave home at am and the stork me shortly before in the morning This photo is taken with the baby less than five hours old He in at lbs and so far Sandy and Bob ivent decided on a name Whitephoto Aurora didnt want to change horses proving By JOHN Era Staff Reporter AURORA Evelyn Buck didnt care to engage in a post mortem which was natural en ough in light of the sound trouncing she incurred at the hands of Mayor Dick Iliingworth in the Aurora mayoralty elec tion last week Its over and done with she said I see no point in an alyzing it I have no complaints There was no apparent bit- Buck to retain its leader the Reeve Buck had cast her self in the role of the underdog It was part strategy part real ism She noted publicly that the towns political pundits had warned that she would be clob bered She herself had no illusions about the race When one takes on an incumbent especially NEWMARKET Officials at York County Hospital stated on Mon day that the condition of Rick Mc- Redmen goalie improved lis car about 1 Twinney tops the town of Fro Oct 5 when her defeat was tain her responses had gamut from bitterness t wilderment to resignation The victor Mayor worth analyzed it too It was apparent hat he had started an alyzing it when this reporter visited his victory party around midnight Oct The party was naturally a happy one but an air of subdued celebration pre- NEWMARKET Regional Co uncillorelect Ray Twinney polled more votes than any other Newmarket candidate on Oct about ling on more than Mayorelect Bob nut his opponent Tom Taylor the defeated him in nine of the 28 polling Await date or recount f tiled The agreed he would Iv said last week It rasing to me As well as to her he might have added From this reporters van tage point last weeks election was not an overwhelming rejec tion of Mayor op ponents Rather it reflected a feeling by the voters that they had enjoyed a good administra tion the past two years and saw no valid reason to change And the mayor noted last week there were no real issues Mayor Illtngworth and his council had done a good job The people were willing to oust one member of that council Reeve NEWMARKET Clerk Grant Blight is still waiting word from a Provincial Judge for a date for a council recount Two candidates Bert Kent and Ellerby tied with the totals from each and still up with the same tie They did discover that defeated candidate Cy was credit ed with two more votes than he act ually received on election night When a date is set for the recount each of the candidates or an agent may be present It is up to the judge to deter Mr Taylor defeated Mr 24 votes to 23 in what was form erly King Township and to in what was Whitchurch Eagle Hills went overwhelming ly for Mr Taylor as did the voters in the east end of Newmarket But it was in East Heights and the Del subdivi sion north of Davis Dr where Mr rolled to victory It was in these two areas where the highest percentage of votes were cast and in these two area where Mr Twinney polled votes to Mr Taylors In the mayoralty race Mayor- elect won of the polling subdivisions Mayor Tom won three polls and Reeve Clare Salisbury Mr Surgeoners top three polls were in the central and southwest centra part of Newmarket while Mr Salisbury won a narrow victory in the former King Township subdivision and the east central part of town Councillor Doris Blair was sec ond to Mr in the total vote with an even 2300 Newcomer Randy was third with 2261 fol lowed by Mr 2208 Perennial council leader Seneca y Cook wound up less than ahead of Ellerby and Bert Kent who tied for the final council seat with 1580 was thrown out of en days ago when it struck an freight train at the Davis Dr crossing at about am He received two broken tegs head injuries and severe lacerations A supervising nurse at York County Hospital said McGowan was out of the Intensive Care area of the hospital and has been moved to a surgical Meanwhile Mrs of Bradford is reported to be only in fair condition at the hospital Mrs was critically burn ed about the hands and feet when the car she was driving struck a Hydro polo on the Canal Road near Holland Four of her children who were passengers in the car with their moth er died when they attempted to leave the vehicle They were electrocuted by the high tension wire which had fallen on the car NEWMARKET All the frozen land in Canada isnt north of Hudson Bay in fact a great por tion of it could be right in the fu ture Region of York if the Federal government continues with its pro posals to seek an international air port site north of Toronto to Lake A proposal from Ottawa last week suggested a freezing of huge parcels of land of Tor onto while public submissions are heard regarding the suitability of three and perhaps four parcels of land which could total about acres At the present time the De partment of Transport is expected to seek some type of federal or pro vincial law which would freeze the sites being considered and also be a means of preventing land specu lation in the area Transport Minister Donald Jamieson said last week that repre sentatives of both senior govern ments would arrange a meeting in about two weeks to discuss means of preventing land speculation York North MP John Roberts told The Era this week that after an interview with Mr the location of the new airport would not necessarily be in a straight line between Metro and Lake Simcoe Mr Roberts said Mr Jamie- son told him that it could even be Lake or east or The transport minister did say however that the Flats would definitely not be the site of the airport One prominent real estate man in York County suggested the federal figures of approximately four or sites as almost impossible fantastic fig- could be not far out if one starts to try and visualize acres it becomes a bit mind boggling and four times that land very hard to visualize It would mean farms each of acres It would mean a conces sion square or approximately 1000 acres and this again would trans late into this figure multiplied by 40 concessions By comparison the Town of Newmarket is about 1300 acres See AIRPORT Page Will Ken or King be Mayor STOUFFV1LLE There will he a recount of votes for the mayors position in the new regional town of WhitchurchStouffvllle it was reveal ed last week King who was defeated for the seat by only two votes by Stouffville reeve Kenneth Laushway has requested that a recount be made by a County Judge It is the first time a recount of ballots has been request ed in the area At one time during the final counting of ballots Mr Laushway was trailing by 84 votes but went into a two vote lead at the final report of votes in Ward 5 Costs of the recount are estimat ed at about and could be assessed against the applicant if the count re- Costs are at the discretion of the judge and could be apportioned according to the result of the count Reeve has stated on the night of the election that he hoped there would be little delay in the event of a request for a recount Mr said he favored recount and had contacted Mr King to assure him that there should no delay thus allowing the busi ness of the municipality to be contin ued without interruption Survival Day is today NEWMARKET Students at Newmarket and District High School I arc having special displays and speak ers at the school this week to mark nation wide Survival Day They have erected two trees one made of no return bottles and another made of garbage There are also posters from Pollution Probe at the school of the Holland River bank as well r b a e from the IS