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SCIENCE FAIR Students from 20 schools in the Newmarket area entered over 100 exhibits in a Science Fair held last week at Meadow- brook school Winners go on to a Regionwide fair in Richmond Hill in April Above Bob Paddock a Huron Heights Secondary School grade student demonstrates the closed ecological system he constructed which won the fairs op prize He claims the system could he adapted for use in rocket ships or submarines to eliminate large areas required for food storage and oxygen Last year Bob placed fifth in the final AllCanada Science Fair While photo Georgina puts lid on land speculators By DON BERNARD Township council is clamping down on the gelrichquick subdivides that have plagued the It took a first step six weeks ago by adopting a standard subdivision agreement The terms of the agree ment which ail subdividers must sign estab lishes that they the ser vices necessary for their new subdivisions so that the burden does not fall the Township to used section of the Ontario Act which allows I local council to scrap a subdiv ion if the plan is eight There are in fact about a dozen such prospective subdi visions in the township that can be developed outside the new agreement At its meeting Monday night council voted to follow a little- been acted upon ion of it she told the council Monday However council voted to reclassify the land in plan 375 making developers unwilling to buy the land Mayor George Burrows behalf of the that it was important speaking said that 404 be may on way claims Ray Peewees ir Construc tion of Highway the ex tension of the Don Valley predicted Monday night Ontario has owned the land for the expressway from Ave north tor years but work has been stalled because Metro Toronto has refused to build Its portion from Ave Mr said the On tario Highways department will lake over the disputed twomile to section el iminating the holdup York North MIT Bill Hodg son confirmed that Highway discussions are underway between the province and Mel- He said he will be meeting with Department of Highways officials nest week after prelim inary negotiations between the government and Metro are completed AllOntario with Midland series stands winning o home until noon Monday Rick Scott 1 and Kevin Matttcc THE ERA 120 NO I NEWMARKET res NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 10 1971 15 CI NO DISCUSSION ON BYLAW Council salaries given final approval despite objections from two citizens it does net law setting the new salaries without any discussion The bylaw increases the mayors salary from to sets the regional coun cillors salary at com pared to paid the reeve last year and boosts a council lors salary from last year to this year In ad dition the mayor and regional councillor each are paid for sitting on York Regional Council The bylaw received two of the necessary three readings two weeks ago but was tabled after it was unexpectedly op posed by two councillors Henry Vanden Bergh and Mrs Doris Blair Regional Councillor Ray the final vote The pleas For reconsidcra- the salary i from Tom for council salaries than last Regional and defea ted candidate for regional coun cil and from Mrs Alice Taylor suggested the mayor should make an nually plus 500 expenses the regional councillor per meeting plus annual ex penses and councillors 25 per meeting He charged that under the new bylaw councillors will be paid per meeting or If you assume the average meet ing to lie hours it repre sents 2010 per hour If one considers the reduc tion in responsibilities po lice sewage and water facilities outside the by number of meet- will attend and the length of those meet- York to pay st class constables 10250 NEWMARKET A first class constable in York Region will make this year ac cording to a historymaking contract signed here Monday The police agreement was only the foi police association be treated fair- There is no room for spe culators to come in and build homes then expect the township the throughout York me first class constables lise of per than per week last year First class constables Richmond Hill Markham and Vaughan who were Yorks he highestpaid a j the smallest pay increas es seven per cent this year The primary beneficiaries of the new pact will be first class constables in Sutton who made last year Theyll get a per cent raise The contract also awards the following raises for first class constables Aurora and East Gwllltm- last year per with the The ease with which the sides agreed to terms was in marked contrast to past years when the 14 local police forces bargained with their respective municipal councils The salary scale for Inspector Sergeant and detective sergeant Patrol sergeant and de- as well as parks anil responsibility Last year these two areas wore adminis tered by appointed boards When one compares this to what your volunteer firemen cam or the members of the school board earn who have a budget 13 times as large as yours then it is hard to ra tionalize Also when one con siders that over 00 per cent of your budget is completely out of your hands then the adminis trative cost of the balance is very high Well be taxed out of town she said and asked council to take a long hard than the fulltime wages of more than half the taxpayers in town she said Mr Twinney countered the Taylor arguments Ivc attended town meetings in January and in February those are the regional brought in to give the power cent hike back to town council and we per cent have to do the job iiiey feels the sal- reasonable We meeting population and salar- dont have seventenths adding work Is a partti J job more like 20 Mr Vanden he attended meetings between I ill I nil II Ii I mil is approved Ill be paid for them I feel thats she couldnt hold another she didnt work for herself She said a lot of regional work is referred back to town council They re floundering up ihere They cant do the work She said she wished some other way could be found of settling this unhappy situation Stewart still seeking lower Aurora salaries AURORA With two strikes against them Councillor Norm Stewart and a group of protesting citizens are girding tditch attempt week the two bylaws one giving Mayor Dick llling- worth a 114 per cent pay hike to the other boosting councillors salaries per cent to received two read ings in council Next Monday third and fi nal reading is scheduled and told The Era this week hell push for a compromise next Monday And spokesmen for the 100- delegation that attend ed last weeks meeting said theyre continuing their protest campaign Theyre asking all concerned citizens to telephone the mayor and council and ask the politicians to reassess their stand on but expected to Councillor Stewart said hell propose bylaw amendments that would set the mayoi without another per cent boost in each constable at the terms of he i York budget not bad Ray NEWMARKET York Regions first budget doesnt look too bud Regional Councillor Ray allowed Monday night He said it will probably be unveiled March Mr Twinney admitted I was really scared at first it looks very good now WHEN THESE KIDS STUDY CHINA Nobody can say young people Prince I hey nil wit down to meal of Chinese food Charles school dun get Involved The group eaten with chopsticks From left they all grude three students are lindi Hutchinson Tracy Smith Kevin iuc in a social studies lesson on China To gel Wright Angela Annette Johnson he feel of things teachers encouraged the Michelle Drew While children to wear costumes and after school YCHs new wing may be stalled by province or tied up in red tape AL ROEDER ADMINISTRATOR may be stalled deliberate ly by a dollarshort provincial government or it may simply be in receiving approvals he said Is there a lack of dollars and therefore a deliberate effort to delay all expenditures If on the other hand this is more representative of a clas sic example of the cumbersome process of bureaucracy then bath the government and our selves must be aptly reminded of the inefficiency and cost of this way of doing business has been seeking provincial ap provals ho has gone through various stages of optimism dis appointment despair and whether to be disenchant ed disillusioned or just plain cynical he told the board Plans for the addi tion to the hospital were started in 1967 York County Hospital Is now one of the most crowded medical facilities in Ontario It has an average beds per thousand of population needs of the residents of this the and political priorities of senior governments Board chairman Boyd said il has been a most frust rating experience occasions and 1 would truthfully say that at each meeting Ontario Hospital in the cost per admission that of I960 he said If the hospital wei in every possible sphere As a result we did manage thes able cling the the bank to deposit dividends provincial average of the block bounded by Prospect St on the west Rd on the cast Davis Dr on the north and Grace St on the south Administrator Roeder said apart from the building prog ram the major of the hospital operation during the past year evolved around efforts to stretch resources to the limit The combination of short hospital stay and moderate cost earned York County Hospital the distinction of having the lowest cost per patient treated in any Ontario hospital over 200 met with OHSC representatives beds There was a reduction of Ions and approvals from Ontario Hospital Services Commission Mr Boyd said feasibility studies on three alternative ap proaches were submitted to last July and one for a freestanding building in parking lot to the east of the present hospital was approved In September He said block schematics were submitted to OHSC Dec and there the plans have been He said the hospital has been operating to capacity for a number of years and its only recourse is to continually re view and reorganize work me thods to rearrange facilities and to expand the hours of vidc the community Space has become one of our most prec ious commodities When one gets down to the point of sub dividing janitors closets dele gating space areas to different functions at various periods of the day then shortage of space becomes an understatement Rubin elected chairman NEWMARKET Larry Rubin of Aurora was elected chairman of York Hospitals of directors last week He succeeds Charles Boyd of Newmarket who is stepping down after seven years in the chair Mr Rubin and three other directors James William Errington and M Lewis were reelected for three year terms