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AuroraKeswick CM Wed THE ERA Serving York County Sinn DAVID HASKELL DONALD UARTIHDALE terry carter Slaughter in Northern Canada The Federal Governments management of Canadas northern resources animal vegetable and mineral is a constant source hunters who roared up in camouflaged white Bombardiers and slaughtered them as they wallowed in deep snow The meat from these The governments treatment of the northern Indian and Eskimo is legend its apathetic attitude towards the pulp and pap er industry raping our lakes and forests is well known and its giveaway of our oil re sources is to be deplored Now the government has slaughtered an animal it has spent millions of dollars to preserve and protect About 200 buffalo were shot to death in Wood National Park a game preserve straddling the Alberta and North West Ter ritory border The buffalo were shot by government to a hungry of Eskimos living nearby This slaughter is mindful of the by the millions had been reduc ed to thousands by rifle bullets These few remaining thousands were herded into an area near the Montana border The hunters set fire to the prairie grass leaving a nar row opening for an escape route As the panicstricken buffalo stamped- lions to increase their number and protect them from man Last week the buffalo were slaughtered again this time in the snow and with the aid of modern transportation The Eskimo community was starving for meat But why did they have to have buffalo meat Why not beef or pork It would have been cheaper for the Fed eral Government to ship the equivalent of the buffalo in beef and pork to this com munity It would have been more humane to Ban snowmobiles from town parks this Monday THE Readers ERA Parks are for people not machines said Mayor Bob last week and The Era couldnt agree more Some of our parks particularly Park on a sunny Sunday afternoon are haz ardous for people unequipped with snowmobiles For children they are downright dangerous Town council should act on the unanim ous recommendation of its parks committee at its meeting next Monday and pass a bylaw banning snowmobiles and other machines from the town parks thai Some councillors fee such a bylaw will climbing each week we feci be a hot political potato for them to handle voting enthushHts will and would just as soon put off any de as long as they can perhaps until We think their political antennae out of tune Most of the snowmobiles ing around n parks are being piloted by publicized NEWSROOM NOTES bylaw as heartily a ordinary pari pedes trians will It will give them an opportunity to withdraw a precedent set earlier in the when the dangers were not so well In fishhutting you look for the action Its out My fish hut is out on the ice of Lake that is This year I decided to play the percent ages and deposit the fish hut where the action should be So far the action has been some where else To digress for a moment the fish huts journey to the ice of Lake started late in September At that time I transported it from the back of Mosquito Manor where its pink was hidden from view by trees to the front of the garage I cleverly decided to move it early that I could refurbish it for the winter in clement weather so that all I had to do was plop it on a trailer and take it out About 10 davs ago with the temper around when the I Each morn months I looked a I for more than three and said to myself that on it after work that SCOTT YOUNG SAYS Case of the bald leg The hut was loaded on trailer and moved to a heated garage in Sutton There work was done on it In a flurry of activity with the aid of Bert tools heal and mechanical ability the hut received its- winter refurbishing Doors were freshly hinged the stove was nailed to the floor the stove pipe was to lie stove and the hut was made wind proof From the heated it was speedily moved to Lake Simcoe where it sat on shore for three days waiting for a storm to abate tit ice to thicken and a threefoot wide crack to close in Finally late on a Saturday The party Dear Editor I have read with great Interest the cou ncils reaction regarding its the bill from Aurora Golf and Country Club tor for the Plan ning Hoard Parly I feel very secure knowing that we have men who would make a ball game out such a trivial thing I believe that the Planning Board was in formed that no parties would be paid for If this is fact then lets send the bill back to Aurora Golf and Country Club and have them redirect it to the parly goers to pay it is reserved for the drawings of The Eras ase feel free to send your Garbage I fully believe that the persons doing the yelling know little or no thing of what they are talking about I do speak up all the other trees on the street they were located where garbage is We pay for garbage pickup this year on our tax bill I understand I hope town council puts little better service utcs at the that a doctor has been at my side from the time of entering the emer gency ward I could go back to then and now and I cannot fully express my sincere appreciation for the prompt and efficient it doctor nurses aide orderly kitchen or house keeping staff As I mentioned be fore I speak with other day every body on our block put out Christmas trees to be knows that a dried sidewalks Dear Editor Why cant people shovel their sidewalks happened we had street and came to a halt on the town boulevard on the opposite side from not in deep snow or any thing it was in line with the spot where the It has become net impossible to do Quite a number of sit for t it where I wanted it right I was talking a couple of weeks ago about mens nightgowns and explaining my own great idea for keeping them from work ing up around your neck in the middle of the night the elastic stirrup had a lot of people hank me since then especially women who said Ihey were sleeping a lot better Their husbands dont spend half the night tossing around convul sively trying to get their sleepcoats down where theyd do some good But with such a reputation comes re sponsibility At a banquet a little after New- Years another problem came up Most of us were in ordinary jackets or suits but the poor guy who was master of ceremonies had on a dinner jacket that he probably didnt wear often like most people these days He beckoned me into a corner obviously wishing to ask my advice I noticed that the shirt front under his dinner jacket was all bunched up and sort of crooked Also he was limping painfully favoring his left leg I knew immediately what had happened Me had tried to apply the nightgownstirrup technique to holding down the front of his boiled shirt I asked if this was so Right he said How could you After glancing around to make sure that we were unobserved bo that he would not be embarrassed I reached over and plucked at the inside of his left trouserleg just at the knee There was a resounding snap The mans face already white went a pale green with shaded of chartreuse around his eye- bags tell front flat You dont hitch one end of elastic band to the bottom button of the shirt the other end to your sock regarded him narrowly He was even standing still I said From the look of you you also may have Ladies will kindly avert their ears for an instant let us say a rather hirsute leg right Right he groaned Every time I take a step the elastic gels twisted around the hairs on my leg I only dressed ago but already I must be bald from tin knee down Even in pain he was thinking hard Maybe if I used two elastics one on each leg it would equalize a bit Not so I said firmly If you used two elastics youd lie bald on both legs by now and limping like an Argo lineman Would string be belter he asked Less painful but still imperfect I aid If you ml the Atria tight enough to hold your two things happen You walk stooped over all the time and your pants still look as if theyve been pressed To end the suspense quickly my glass by then was empty I gave him the address of my haberdasher along with a scribbled thing combination shirt all one piece there about the solution It the old stepin Joe Dales huts and Bill Yakes huts I located it in this area because figur ed both of them know list about all there is to know about ice fishing and that of the thousands of fish these two men would attract to their huts a few of might be stupid enough to pass under mine and hungry enough to be enticed by the bait I would offer them Alas and alack this so far has not been so hours of serious and sleailv fish ing has resulted in the sum total of the fish ing stick bobbing four limes Not one has been hauled up through the hole Crying need Dear Editor On several occasions recently I have noticed in The Era the cry for a waiting for the resident doctor as he was on a house call BUT THIS WAS NOT AT YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL LLOYD E S1VEHNS just different When Ihe tines came along the garbagenien picked up green bags on each side of the wander ing tree but turned their up the a footing people can out to shovel their own walks by a given time after a snowfall the town should do it for hem and charge Ihem for work SHIS A JONGS However they did pick BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE The mans not telling what really happened molt suspect that my friend Joe Dales has contrived to move a big barrel under my fish hut so that when the bottom feeding mine mizzling along they for these shirtshorts If you wind up with your shorts s your shirt front well you deiun of I lie deep You might I am exaeyei ating about the Dales barrel trick but I wouldnt put Ray the chap who syndicates this column has written for about Ihe fourth lime asking for new picture of yours truly to head up the column For various reasons none of Ihem worth the powder havent got to having my portrait taken Rut I dont blame him The old one does not do me justice Theres scarcely a hint of the bags under my eyes Theres HI I hi Hint Im grn as an old billy- goat The deep lines of suffering nearly twenlyfive years of domestic warfare just arc not there However I have a good reason for not having a picture taken for a couple of weeks least have a black eye That is it was black Then blue Then purple Its now a sort of mauve shading into yellow I havent had such dandy since lull when some German guards gave me a going- for being imprudent That time it was both eyes In fact ho first time I got a took in a mirror after the heating I could have been mistaken for fairly scruffy rain- Theres nothing quite so black eye It arouses the worst In her people Loud and clear What hap- Died to you Smiley Wife heal you up so on Those remarks ho To Ihe nest few curious offhandedly thnl Id had a fight on New Years Eve that he was and Dint had to face charges soon as lie was released They didnt really be lieve me after scathing look at my 112 pounds of june suel but they werent sure He was just a little cop I added I kick ed him right in the gall bladder When this palled on me I swore Id had a brawl with the paper hoy when he said I him for I wo weeks and I said one Hes big paper boy the ladies 1 use a different tcch- l tell them that this lady took a vio- a party that w her gently palling her back and try lo quench her unrequited passion when her jealous husband hit me right in the eye right over her shoulder with my hands lied up They raise an eyebrow sometimes two hut can hear them muttering together and sneaking glances at mo from the other end of Ihe room To others relate that I was Willi my daughter and when she found 1 was winning she punched me in the left eye Willi her left fiat Which she would I have lots of Ilil Belles of York By Robert While fashion model who now lives with her husband in Wimpy subdivision She been lining purl time modelling work for Juyiyn Ladies Sportswear But those who seem genuinely con cerned I try In find some more exotic reason something to make them think Im a devil of fellow This one happened during the holidays To Ihe first few who came sniffing around looking foi tried tills gambit thnl from bottle can penetrate ffif a ceiling Next time open be sum- Ihe is pointing at someone elses eye That shook them a hit and hey went away shaking their heads in admiration Or something when I collided with a and everyone else suffered terrible lacerations Struck my eye on the end of the handle of the snowshovel when I had my first coronary Humped headon into the cat when wo were both crawling around under the bed looking for her Hut I will never never resort to that oldie about running into a door Ive run into plenty of doors and other objects in my life Hut its a pretty cheap way of ac counting for a black eye 1 swear my wife didnt do it She was so ill through the holidays she couldnt have given a goldfish a black eye Whats your version Drop a line