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Cook Rumble named to York police commission rewarded with seats on the York Po lice Board which will assume the task of forming an amalgamated police force for the Region of York King Township Reeve Gordon Cook and Markham Township Reeve Stewart Rumble were appointed last week by the provincial Lieutenant Go vernor in Council The announcement was made last Saturday evening at the final County wardens banquet in Tor- Mr Rumble was warden in 1969 Their appointments put the last three war dens in the new regional administra tion Garfield Wright the war den is the regional chairman The York Police Board tech nically the York Regional Board of Commissioners of Police is a five- man body that must be filled by Nov 1 board consists of a county judge an other provincial appointee and two members of the regional council Councils two representatives will likely be chosen at tomorrows regional council meeting Mr Cook said he was looking forward very much to working with Stewart Rumble in the challenging task of forming the regional police Salaries for the nonelected mem bers of the board have not been de termined Provincial legislation calls for Yorks appointed police commis sioners to receive no less than per year as prescribed by the Police Act lor a municipality with a popula tion between 100000 and Under regional government Yorks 1971 population will be ap proximately 151000 But it is likely Reeves Cook and Rumble will receive salaries substan tially greater than The legisla tion creating the Region of York makes no provision for deciding on specific salaries for police commis other than to prescribe the THE PAGES VOL 119 NO 15 CENTS Newmarket Aurora NEWMARKETAURORA KESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1970 15 CENTS PERMANENT MAIN ST MALL NEWMARKET A group of Main St merchants will ask the Newmarket Planning Board to include a yearround mall for the area in the towns official plan This was decided at meeting of nearly merchants held last week to decide the fate of Main St The decision to ask for a year- round mall was unanimous The meeting was chaired by Ron and the group named Newmarket Downtown Mall Jack Groves as chairman Laird Ruby was named treasurer and Mrs Mary secretary Others elected to the committee were Harm Chester Best Frank Dawson Frank Hempen Terry and Norva Chandler The downtown merchants will a float in the annual Santa Clans parade and a place for the children to visit the jolly gentleman Until permanent mall arrangements completed the mer chants plan to emulate the successful mall held in conjunction with the newlyrenovated arena celebrations held earlier this month Main St will be closed for a mall in conjunction with the annual Winter Carnival held at Fairy Lake Another mall will be sometime early in the spring Merchants plan no July celebrations but will hold events to promote Main St and Fairy Lake in late June Police may lay charges in church breakins NEWMARKET Charges ire pending against four juveniles and one 10yearold who allegedly broke into at least seven area churches and several businesses over the past months At least 16 charges of break enter and theft will be laid against the youths this week Newmarket Po lice said Money was stolen in most of the cases The breakins include Three at Trinity United Church one at the Salvation Army Citadel two at the Christian Baptist Church one at the Christian Reformed Church at the Anglican Church Also listed in the charges are two breakins at the Newmarket Fire Hall several thefts at the Newmar ket Arena malicious damage to the Dave Woods Chrysler premises on Davis Drive a breakin at the Summit Golf Club Richmond Hill several at the new GO terminal in Newmarket and one at Josephs Barber Shop New- Youths charged in breakins NEWMARKET Seven charges of break enter and theft have been laid against two Newmarket juveniles who allegedly stole worth of sporting equipment from the Canadian Tire store and broke into four other businesses on Davis Drive Police said the incidents occur red over the past months and involved breakins at Canadian Tire Beaver Lumber twice Eves Lumber twice and the CNR Station The sporting equipment taken from Canadian Tire was recovered from a field off Davis Drive police reported Investigating officers were Con stable Tom Young and Constable Dave Smalley Probe bomb threat SUTTON Sutton Police have no leads to the identity of the person who called Sutton District High School last Friday with a bomb threat The blast was scheduled one of the secretaries was Informed to go off at 2 pm that afternoon Sutton police moved the nearly MOO students across the road and made a careful search of the building for 35 minutes Following the search classes were resumed Newmarket Highs Bob Price intercepts a King collegiate pass in the last minute of Mondays crucial game effectively stalling a King drive deep into Newmarket territory Newmarket had a one- point lead in the match and Prices Interception meant they held onto it to win Closing in on Price are Dave Lowe and Dave Peddle from King Paul is 96 White pho Recount will be held Friday NEWMARKET Newmarket Town Clerk Grant Blight has received word that the recount of votes needed to break the tie between and Bert Kent will be held in the Offices on Friday Oct 30 The count will start at am under the direction of Judge Leslie Ball Mr Blight said he had little idea how long the recount would take or the procedure the judge would use If every ballot is reexamined it could take many hours of work be fore a decision is reached said the INSIDE o detailed report on Blue Hills Academy one of York Countys newest social services The Academy located south of Aurora helps children with emo tional problems Set page Raiders win senior title by defeating King 1312 AURORA Newmarket District High School staged a dramatic second- half comeback to nip King City 1312 in a playoff Monday and win the sen ior championship of the North York Secondary School football league The game played on neutral ter ritory in Aurora snapped a tie for first place that existed after regular season play For the Raiders it was obviously their top game of the season and per haps one of their best in recent years Down 120 midway through the third quarter Newmarket rebounded with two late touchdowns and a clutch convert kick by Pete Jenkins to score a onepoint verdict Paul Toiman a seasonlong star for Newmarket and Spencer Ritchie scored the Raiders majors Bruce OBrien and Wayne Brown countered with six pointers for King City After a scoreless first period King took a lead on a 30yard pass early In the third quarter when Brown bolted through the line for a 10yard touchdown run King threatened to break It open moments later After driving to New markets 40yard line OBriens pass to Dave Peddle took King to the Raid ers 20 But Newmarket held and took over on downs Shortly thereafter Newmarket worked Us way into King territory A pass from quarterback Jim Ferguson to Paul Rebel took the baU to Kings five from where romped in lo put Raiders on the scoreboard Jen kins convert try was blocked Early in the fourth quarter Jen kins tried to pass on a fake field goal but the toss was Intercepted by Kings Dave Turner on the three yard line A few plays later Newmarket returned the favor when Bob Price got his first of two interceptions and returned it to the King 15 Three plays later Ritchie took a Ferguson at the eight and lugged it across the goal line to tie the score Jenkins then kicked the decid ing point Jack interim regional ad ministrative officer said the matter would likely be settled by the Board will receive no extra compensation other than their salar ies as council members The wardens banquet last Sat urday was the biggest such affair in York history with more than in attendance with the traditional gifts a silver tea service presented by County Commis sioner Slewart Burnett a plaque by County Commissioner and a cane Mrs Cook received flowers from Mrs Burnett on behalf of the and lllingworth wants s job put up for grabs NEWMARKET The York Reg ional Council should advertise for ap plicants to fill the job of regional ad ministrative officer according to a motion by Aurora Mayor Dick to be tabled at tomorrows coun cil meeting Jack former chief en gineer of the Toronto and York Roads Commission now holds the adminis trators position on an interim basis He was appointed by Regional Chair man Garfield Wright last summer The appointment terminates Jan 1 unless Mr is retained on a per manent basis by the regional council My motion reflects nothing personal against Mr said Mayor Its the principle of the thing I think the job should be made available to all interested appli cants Its just good business sense Mayor in hospital with ulcer problems will not be pre sent to present his motion However it is included agenda and will be considered by council Mr told The Era The regional council will hold its first business meeting at pm tomorrow in the board room of the Toronto and York Roads Commission Don Mills Mayor lllingworth also has sub mitted two other notices of motion for tomorrows session Committee appointments con sideration of applications for some de partment heads and selection of two councillors to sit on the York Police Board are expected to be the main items of business at tomorrows meet ing 70 taxes due Dec NEWMARKET The towns tax bills should be out about Nov 30 council was told Monday Town treasurer Stu Parks said that means the bills will be due in one installment Dec Tax bills are normally Issued in April and are payable in two Install ments This years have been delayed while the town sought relief from higher taxes brought about by re assessment Mr Parks said town residents will receive some tax relief benefits from the delay Tigers finally to meet NEWMARKET Newmarket and Aurora will tangle In hockey for the first time In more than four years when the Junior Redmen and Tigers meet in an exhibition grudge match Dec 10 at the Newmarket Arena A return match has been arranged for Dee in the Aurora Community Centre The teams last met during the season when both were Junior C clubs Redmen are playing their first season as a Junior B team Santa 500 richer NEWMARKET Town council made a grant to the Newmarket Santa Claus Parade committee Mon day night The committee had asked for but committee spokesman Gord Clelland said he was pleased with the contribution The committee has an budget and last year raised by canvassing business and industry from the Snowball dance and re ceived a grant from the town re creation committee This year said Mr Clelland it has also managed to raise about through other projects Councillor Doris Blair said the Main St mer chants may donate this year and they hope the plaza businessmen will match the contribution Deputy Reeve Bruce Eves said the plaza will this year the par ade ends there Mr Eves explained that plaza donations are always lar ger on the years when the parade starts on Main St and ends there Borrow NEWMARKET Town council decided to borrow at per cent interest from the Ontario Muni cipal Improvement Corporation an Ontario government body There was no discussion The money Is to cover the spent on arena renovations for a new fire truck and for the purchase of industrial land at the south end of town The de bentures will be for years Town treasurer Parks said the town got a better deal from the government agency than it would have on the open bond market The debenture issue authoriza tion was passed unanimously Town to close dropin centre NEWMARKET Town council ordered the Newmarket Dropin Cen tre closed by Nov and decided to send a bill for outstanding expenses to Dr John Denison the Mount Al bert physician who led the delegation to council last spring asking for the teen facility The doctor told council at the time his committee would stand be hind the centre The bill will Include for back hydro Councillor Aubrey Smith told the Dropin Centre is concerned that its hydro will be cut off Mr Smith said the club paid its portion of the bill but that the teen centre has no money to pay its portion Officially the dropIn centre Is being closed because there is no heat In the building and town officials fear there will be damage to the plumbing If there is a cold snap Air Smith said it had been sug gested the town pay the hydro bill but this brought a quick reaction from Councillor Doris Blair 1 dont think we should have anything to do with it If they cant hold up their part of the bargain they should have no part of the building They should get busy and raise the money she said Mr Smith agreed and Mayor Surgeoner added I wonder if we should be allowing them to continue Incurring debts they dont intend to pay or dont have money to pay He pointed out when hydro writes off a bad debt the cost Is spread over the whole town The mayor said he had two ser ious complaints in the last two weeks about the dropin centre Last Saturday afternoon people on the Main St complained of noise and went to Investigate He found two boys and two girls In a back office en joying the music that could be heard on the Main St The mayor said the teenagers told him he had no right to ask them to turn down the sound but I insisted and It was turned He said on another occasion a teenager was demonstrating the use of a bull whip and nobody could get In or out