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Office Specialty fire is proof fulltime firemen needed Gunn By DON BERNARD Era Staff Reporter NEWMARKET The towns fire brigade was quick of last Thursdays Office Specialty fire but forgot to bring the equipment The fire trucks were hastily brought to the scene when fire men approached a passing motor ist and asked for a lift to the Main St fire station Arrow Auto Body ve the trucks And Fire Chief Cliff Gunn said this mixup was another rea son for permanent firemen to be photos on page the former paint shop gutted the from the north aided file THE ERA vol 120 no Since 852 8952331 PAGES NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 1971 CENTS PARENTS WIN ONE LOSE ONE Close schools change area boundary AURORA The parents of children attending Shrubmount will be located at for the other children Four other country schools in King Township Snowball At Monday nights meeting Pottageville and Strange will also close with changes which would have the children to Rogers Public and the 1 Pine Orchard and Vivian schools still will close Students from Pine Or chard will attend Rogers Public School Two surplus portables area made strong plea to board trustees of their wards the Stouffville meeting children will he about the to as it would been to Newmarket Trustee Jack told I I iv 1 lb lm I the parents had presented a va lid argument and thats why the Rogers was ap proved on the basis of the pupil enrolment expected from var ious areas Mr said There will be empty places but this is not considered a bad thing in the first year of a new schools operation UNSURE OF GRANTS York hesitates on budget COUNCIL CHANCED MIND Thirteenyearold Khamlssa find of his friends met supporters of a Sherman lank an Aurora own meeting Monday night and won The council had proposed buying the war surplus tank as a playground fixture aid presented an petition opposing he idea and in he words of one of its members council pulled in its horns Sabotage rumor untrue Twinney tells council provincial grant which finance the verbally Park officials The council made its hud- get approval conditional on all the grants being received Spring ahead Well maybe not Saturday if you sleep in Sunday but by Savings Time which takes ef fect at 2 am Sunday So to stay with he crowd grants do materialize they may only be for this year The Region has received a commitment for the grant Mr said the budget will be very dificult to cut next year This year we may get something tor nothing but we might not gel it and this way we will The Aurora mayor point ed out the county planning bud get last year was between is will give the planning depart- the extra grants to it to assist local municipalities We have an excellent vol unteer department but it must be supplemented by trained full- time firemen he said Chief Gunn who Is Newmar kets only fulltime firefighter said a similar incident happen again under the present circumstances Meanwhile no estimate of the damage to the factory is av The spectacular blaze broke in the top floor of the four sto- factory smoke thousands of feet air At one time when the roof caved in flames licked feet The blaze could be seen from as far away as Toronto acetylene torch Sparks dropped to the floor and a whoosh of flame en- gulfed the paint and sawdust soaked floors of the building built in 1913 The heat was so intense that house owned by Robert Edward high school students used gar den hose on the roof and walls and until firemen could bring one of their powerful hoses into play Showers of sparks fed by ex plosions from paint cans and ace tylene tanks ignited the roofs of two houses on Court St more than a quartermile away A fire truck sped to the blazes and quickly extinguished Residents of Martin Manor Nursing Home on Prospect St See FIRE page Police board closes deal to purchase Prospect St HQ NEWMARKET York Region Police Commission on Monday afternoon finalized a deal to purchase the Office Specialty building on Prospect St for 225700 and transform it into the first regional police headquarters Announcement of the transaction came after several meetings between the commission and Office Specialtys real estate agent Lloyd Howe Purchase of the office building is conditional on obtain ing a zoning amendment from Newmarket Council and on Monday night just two hours after the deal was closed council approved the zoning change in principle The figure includes a new roof new furnace niliinii Hi- iiuiliiii Hi- it- 1I1 1 grading of the cleaved ltd Oh Judge William Lyon Demolition of the rear destroyed by fire Inst Thursday is now under way After several months of dim live bitter debate York Regional Council on March appropriated to the commission foe and lenm ition of the Office Specially building The part of that sum not included in the purchase puce will be Used to equip and furnish the building Commissi mined i tight told Crime jumps in first quarter of 71 the problems we have in a million planning bud get would be cheap He termed the budget a piddling amount to pay when compared to the cost of not hav ing planning Councillor Don of Richmond Hill said the whole regional planning budget was not more than the total plan ning budgets of Vanghan Richmond Hill and Mr too was worri ed about what will happen when the provincial props are pulled out Well just have to look at this budget in that light ho Planning committee mem ber Jim Jongcnccl of Markham said the committee didnt intend to spend the whole un less all the provincial grants materialize Council decided to make this a condition of its approval and amended the budget resolu tion accordingly NEWMARKET York crime rate jumped r cent during the first quarter report to York Region Police Commission Chief Craw ford said theft breakin and fraud cases showed the biggest increases when compared with crime statistics for the first three months of 1070 The number of rapes other ford said deterrent steps be taken in he Immediate fu- in the near fu ture would help rectify the problem And he emphasized The total reported offences from January through March numbered 1334 an increase of ISO over the same period of 1970 Of the offences reported in Hold school costs forum RICHMOND HILL The new provincial ceilings on edu cational costs will be he sub ject of a public forum at pm tonight In Richmond Hill High sored by the York County branch of the Ontario Secon dary School Teachers Federa tion and will Include teachers school trust res and parents Federation spokesman Italph of Newmarket told The Era that concern Is for the future of educational pro grams throughout the province if the edict Is obeyed In his opinion arbitrary ceilings without regard for the Individual circumstances of each board will mean a standstill in program development NEWMARKET Rumors that Newmarket Recreation Committee is trying to sabo tage its East Gwillimbury Mr said the sab otage rumor claimed New market was trying to force all children within the towns boundaries to play minor hoc key and other sports in town minor hockey has claimed in the past that if it loses all its members liv ing in the area of the town ship annexed to Newmarket Mr said his com mittees position has not changed since it was present- era weeks ago that the chil dren north of Davis Dr and south of the new town bound be given a and if thej choose to play hockey in East Gwillimbury the town will pay its fair share of their t if township accept He said the town ii also willing to cooperate in other sports Well take any kid from East into our ml brill soccer or lacrosse if they will pay their lie said the two systems are talking of amal gamating The East and Newmarket recreation com mittee met for discussions last night I dont know why they want this meeting I tho- Blame closed meetings for ratepayers sagging interest attend committee meet I cant understand why everything cant be done in open meetings Mr Roberts toW The Era The public MAYOR GEORGE BURROWS According to Mr Roberta the council js spending money and only giving rubber stamp approval in open session The affect on the Ratepay ers has been nearly fatal he with 33 that turned out for the inaugural meeting in January There has been a gradual but definite dropping off in interest by the residents of Township he said Mayor George Burrows told Era the ratepayers following the elections In the Mr Roberts also charged that there is a rumored mill rate increase of SO per cent this year and that the council is hiding this from the peo ple of the township Mayor Burrows said the preliminary estimates of the 1971 township budget have gone into the province and that they are estimated high for grant purposes We have no idea what the mill rate will be this year be cause we have not set our budget yet The per cent figure is way out of line the mayor added Council is expected to dis cuss the opening of commit tee meetings to the press at Mondays council meeting ALEC ROBERTS