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THEERA PAGES VOL 119 NO Aurora W- 15 CENTS ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1970 CENTS PROPOSED EG RACEWAY TO SEAT FANS TAX BILLS STILL NOT OUT Town running short delay pay cheques SHARON Plans for a 200- superoval highbank raceway with grandstand seating for spectators on the sixth concession of East Gwillimbury received a green light from council Monday It will put East Gwillimbury on the map predicted developer Fred Crawford He had earlier proposed a much smaller drag strip on the site The proposed site of the track is two lots south of the Road and one concession east of the village of Mr Crawford told council that outside of the US the mile raceway would be the largest in the world He said there would be a tunnel and a quarter mile pit road The sport is popular in the Uni ted States It attracts people from the ages of six to with few hippies amongst them he claimed The tracks are miles away from cities The cars are new and the races are sponsored by a group called Nas- The owners of the property are responsible only for the maintenance of the facilities Some preliminary discussions have been held with a view to pur chase or lease a rightofway north from the track site to give access to Ravenshoe Road The lands are owned by York County and are slated for re forestation purposes County forester John Griffiths has informed Mr Craw ford that his plan is feasible as the lands are not presently paying their Reeve Gladys Rolling warned Mr Crawford that there might be some difficulty as the province has money invested in the properly Other possible uses of the race way mentioned by Mr Crawford were a drag strip and a track with licensed restaurant facilities also to be available Council indicated they favored the proposal and were told by Mr Crawford that a letter had been sent to the county clerk who had replied that nothing could be done until the regional council takes office Jan 71 council will not reinstate committees NEWMARKET Newmarket town council will not reinstate its three key appointed bodies after Jan the steering committee of the council has decided The duties of the town planning board the town recreation and parks committee and the town parking authority will all be assumed by coun cil next year Planning recreation and parks will be handled by councils new fiveman executive committee Parking will be under the jurisdiction of councils bylaws committee No one on the steering commit tee opposed the decision not to re appoint the three committees Rill the Ontario govern ment legislation establishing the Re gion of York dissolved all municipal standing committees and boards ef fective Dec 31 Municipal Affairs department officials explained the aim of this pro vision in the bill is to return as much power to elected councils as possible They said Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy feels council author ity has been eroded by appointed bodies over the years Bill gives town council the right to reappoint the dissolved boards and committee next January The steering committee also fin alized its committee structure at its meeting last week The nineman council will be di vided into two groups administra tion and operations Each councillor will be assigned a specific area of re sponsibility or committee chairman ship within his group Heres the breakdown finance Bill Steele promotion Randy La- bylaws Aubrey Smith fire and garbage Seneca Cook These commit tees will make up the administration group and Mr Steele wilt be the co ordinator Roads and bridges Bert Kent water and sewers prop erly Henry and trans portation bands and pollution control Doris Blair These will be the oper ations group and Mr Kent will be the In on the powerful five- man executive committee will sit Mayor Bob regional councillor Ray Twinney Mr Steele Mr Kent and the fifth seat will be occupied by other members of council on a rotat ing fivemonth term from Santa December Dear Girls and Boys Isnt it getting cold Goodness me up here at the North Pole we can hardly put our noses out the door without getting them frozen This week we have been check ing all of your letters to see if we have enough toys to go around and Im surprised that some of you are so greedy do you know that some children ask me to bring them five and six toys Oh my darlings old Santa would just love to give every one everything they want but we just dont have enough time to make that many toys Next week have promised that he could write you so look for hisIettcr wont you Love and Kisses SANTA NEWMARKET Town tax bills last scheduled to be mailed Nov with a Dec 15 payment deadline still werent in the mail Tuesday morning Trouble with the computer ex plained Mayor Tom at Mon day nights council meeting The may or said East Gwillimburys tax roll which is being billed by a Toronto computer firm ahead of Newmarkets had run into difficulties As soon as they find out what the trouble is theyll be able to run through Newmarkets without diffi culty he said Deputy treasurer Jim Barber said later the town probably will not charge a penalty for late payment un til after the end of December al though the Dec 15 deadline will stick lie predicted The town is running so short of funds that members of the volunteer fire brigade who were due to receive their annual stipend Monday night were asked to wait until tax money starts coming in after Dec The firemen will receive a total of about 17000 Town police were also asked to wait for their overtime and service However the shortage of funds wont dampen the Christmas season All the cheques will be out in time for Christmas shopping said Mr Barber The cash shortage will bit the town hardest in the areas where It owes large sums of money it must pay the school board over on Dec 15 and it owes the county its share of the municipal taxes the same The town may have to borrow money to meet these payments it was indicated East Gwillimbury Township Council was told Monday tax bills will be mailed after December 8 with the second instalment becoming due on Dec The date for penalties has been moved back from Dec to Dec The township council ap proved the further ten days grace at Monday meeting Most police will stay Twinney NEWMARKET Most of he Newmarket police force will continue to be assigned to the Newmarket area after the force is absorbed by the new regional police department Ray Twinney predicted last week Mr Twinney Newmarkets re gional councillor is also a member of the new York Region Police Commls- committee last week after Councillor Bert Kent had asked If there Is any way the new council could assure that one of our local boys Mayorelect Bob Forhan replied I think most municipalities will be asking for that and Mr added that he feels most of the trans fers will be made in the noncommis sioned officer ranks I think most of our police will be staying he said Aurora enters race for new York police HQ Nineteenyearold Margaret of Newmarket was trapped in her wrecked car for more than min utes Saturday night after a headon collision on Sutton near St Newmarket and Whitchurch police and Newmarket firemen first tried to free the girl with hacksaws and crowbars at left because of the danger of an explosion from leaking gas Newmarket Fire Chief Cliff finally had to order a power saw in photo at right to cut away the steering wheel door seats and a section of the engine Photo Drew Girl trapped minutes in wreck NEWMARKET A seriously injured 19yearold Newmarket girl was trapped in the wreckage of her for over minutes without medi- night while police 1 crow- to cut The danger of an explosion if sparks from the power saw touched leaking gas hung constantly over the girl and her rescuers Margaret Orr was taken to York County Hospital with multiple hip leg pelvis and knee fractures severe facial cuts a possible fractured skull internal injuries and shock She was involved in a headon collision about midnight Saturday on Sutton at St Police said Miss Orr was northbound when her car collided with a southbound vehicle driven by Savoio Aguila of Bay Ridges which they said had apparent ly just passed a third vehicle Mr Aguila was taken to York County Hospital with chest injuries abrasions and shock his wife Stella 39 suffered fractured ribs lacera tions a broken knee and shock and their son Randolph 10 was treated for severe facial lacerations fractured face bones and shack The boy will re quire plastic surgery Newmarket Fire Chief Cliff Gunn said Miss Orrs car had to be cut apart to get her out Police had to shield the girl from the sparks with a blanket Police and firemen were unable to get a doctor to come to the scene to aid the girl during her ordeal Keswick Christmas festivities start Friday AURORA Spurred by New markets apparent edge in the race to land the York Regional Police head quarters town council will try to per suade the regional police commission to bring its administrative facilities to Aurora Aurora Council decided Mon day night to explore the possibility of locating the police headquarters in the new bank complex planned for the corner of and Wellington Streets where the old Queens Hotel will be replaced by a TorontoDomin ion bank sometime next year The York Police Commission will be invited to meet with council to see what Aurora has to offer in the way of potential sites for the headquarters The Office Specialty building on Prospect Street Newmarket appar ently is the commissions top choice at the moment police commissioner Hay Twinney told The Era last week He said the commission also is considering the old York Manor t Yonge and Eagle Streets at Mondays Aurora Coun cil session Mayor Dick said the main headquarters would also serve as the headquarters for detachments KESWICK The Christmas sea son starts officially in the Keswick area Friday night Friday at pm the residents of Keswick put on a festive evening en titled Christmas Carol at the Keswick Memorial Arena Candy canes will be given to the children prior to Santa arrival pm There is no ad mission charge Saturday at 1 pm the annual Keswick Santa Claus Parade will get underway at Dawsons Marina on the and travel to Keswick Ar ena The parade will feature four area bands the Sutton Brass Band Sutton Newmarket Legion Pipe Band and the Aurora Clown Band In the estimation of parade chairman Bill Harvey it will be the biggest t2pn Farmers get 25 tax rebate Farmers with more than 11 ac res assessed as farm land will receive an automatic tax rebate this year For more details sec Farm Report page in Newmarket Whitchurch and King Councillor J Henderson who regularly complains that Newmarket thrives at Auroras expense snapped Were paying taxes through the nose to keep Newmarket going And Councillor Pete Miller sug gested the headquarters should be in Aurora because its the centre of the four municipalities mentioned by the If we dont get it here were The old York Manor building formerly used by the Queens York Rangers is so unsafe that militia men had to walk tiptoed across the floor said Councillor Norm Stewart Council decided to ask Toronto- Dominion officials whether their building plans might allow for the ad dition of the regional police If they could build over there 1 can keep an eye on them quipped Councillor Henderson Local police forces will cease to exist as of Jan 1 All local policemen employed since last April will be retained by the region for at least a year at their present salaries Cain tops Scott council polls ZEPHYR Jim Cain of Zephyr topped the polls Monday night in the Scott Township election to fill three council seats on the 197172 council than runnerup Ross of bridge who polled Jim Wilson al so of Uxbridge won the other seat with 387 votes Running out of the money were Harold Morrison of Zephyr 353 Mac Myers Zephyr 290 Cliff Sweet Ze phyr 158 and Schmidt of 27 Both op positions on the coun cil were filled by acclamation Bob Timbers of is reeve and Norm Lyons of Sandford deputy START PLANNING SCHOOL FOR ARTISTS Board of Education may become the first board in Canada to establish a special school for the arts At a special meeting Monday night the board accepted a staff report on the unique project and directed staff to prepare a build ing proposal outlining a site plan construction and operations costs availability of staff and a proposed opening date The board also will seek fin ancial help from the Canada Coun cil of the Arts as well as the pro vincial and federal governments The idea for the school was first presented to the board in a po sition paper in September 1969 On Planning Director Ste- for the establishment of a school of the arts which would encom pass the teaching of sculpture painting music dance theatre arts writing and commercial art Approximately 70 people at- tendered Mondays board meeting to take part in seven discussion groups set up to consider Mr latest report In the main the parti cipants appeared to represent the field of music Their enthusiasm was perhaps predictable Sam Chapman Director of Education told he board that he school would not be as different from the schools now being built as might be assumed The academic re quirements would not be different he said but instead of students spending their time in commercial and technical subjects they would spend that time in a study of the arts Mr report re commended that auditions be held in February or March each year for students in Grad of any elemen tary school including the elemen tary section of the school for the arts It was emphasized that it a school for the There arc several other sig nificant differences in the pro posed program The school would be open 10 to 12 hours a day to al low time for practice It would also be open six days a week including Saturday The staff would be working artists There would be no grades in or academic courses and the children would range in age from kindergarten to Grade 12 Mr Chapman acknowledged that the board would be breaking ground everywhere it goes to got the necessary authority for the pro- before the school could be come a reality he said Trustee Ross Jolliffe com mented We have been playing to a full house tonight and getting a point of view It will be interesting to get the publics reac tion to this proposal In answer to the question of why there had not been more pro paganda for the project Mr salmasi replied It was not the she of the army which brought down the walls of Jericho It was the sound of the