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Tie Era Wed October THE ERA ft HASKELL TERRY CARTER JOHN Dont personal touch out of police force Its been nearly 10 months since local the point of t police departments were amalgamated into the We hope York Regional Police Department And its been a stormy 10 months charges by local politicians that their municipality is less protected with the change threats of resign ations by a number of police officers grumblings about transfers of policemen to other municipali tiesare among some of the controversies But through it all York Police Chief Bruce Crawford has remained calm cool and collected Perhaps a better way to describe Chief Crawfords behavior in the past months is efficient ruthless and competent For the steps be has taken to mold 14 forces into one require all these calmness coolness efficiency ruthlessness and competence On another page in this issue of The Era News Editor John Lott writes about an interview he had with Chief Crawford and two members of the Regional force v with the two policemen ig to the York force it doesnt mean im- personalize the York force We hope the York force will he as efficient as the Metro force and still be able to provide the personal touch which was so characteristic when York County was policed by 14 depart- Metro in the aim to make the York s the Metro force is by reputation is one We hope that the cop on the beat will be returned as soon as possible for this method of law enforcement is still one of the best ways preventing crime But Metro is different than York Metro is million people compressed into a York is only 150000 people spread across square miles And needless to say a York residents life style is much different from a person living in Metro Halloween mm ji in- Old Ontario mill THE Readers ERA Mothers of York unite celebrate Hal loween on Saturday night Officially the night hobgoblins and spooks indicates the majority of the under the new system Chief happier Oct of All Saints Day But this year unfortunately Oct 31 is changes even to Sunday and the word is that most mothers an planning to send out their contin gents Saturday night so they wont upset the neighborhoods Sunday night quiet Most fathers we feel sure will heartily en dorse the move After all dad can sleep in Sun day morning but Monday he has to get up fight off the blues and go to work This long All is reserved for the coir and drawings of The Eras feel free send your a- include compliments I Failure to stand NEWSROOM NOTES Planned parenthood and the World Series John Planned parenthood means scheduling the birth of your baby coincide with the World Such precise planning of course is not if youre not a baseball fanatic I arc And had saved a weeks holidays for that mt mentous time when wife Kathy was scheduled produce Number Two Child The idea you see was that chivalrous steps across the basement floor as I watched in dismay The entire household with the possible ex ception of the baby whose indoctrination to sport has just begun was cheering for the un derdog pirates Ethan our dynamic 18month required discipline occasionally So that a smashing exciting aspect of my family planning was But I found that my surrogate housewife had since the last time I tried it Hast De cember when Kathy conveniently fell ill during trip to and farm thrill of learning about the countryside and lis- in the woodlands eg in answer to tea chers questions What kind of animal lives here Big small look Put schools to better use typical let these kids oft condemning the US for Illegally murdering plication here is that kill ing people Is all right unpopular field but just as long as its legal in which he believes Let me make one If there are any thing clear The US is lions as to my legally in the Republic tiais let me state lb last week of holidays Objects to Stewarts comments the band John would perform all the wifely and shrieked go go while the Orioles were at bat confused motherly chores about the house while Kathy but being a modern and tolerant father I us- to i was in hospital and during the period immedi ately thereafter when she was occupied with the new addition But my motives I confess here for the by Id be able to watch the complete World Ser ies even if the annual fall classic went to the maximum seven games With more than a trace of triumph I can report that my foresight was perfect Our overcame monumental odds and I missed only modern and tolerant father I forgave his enthusiasm at the chance to use even indiscriminately his rather limited vocabulary Commercial timeouts or course had to be used to the fullest advantage As the third out was made Id streak to the basement to with draw a load of laundry or whip Ethan off to the bedroom to change a diaper in world record time or rev up the vacuum cleaner for a tor rid cleanup while some donkey on the tube was butchering his face with technologys latest shading triumph Once on a day when expected weeds start growing between the floor tiles if the liv ing room wasnt cleaned I surrendered the au dio portion of the telecast for a full two innings Canned soup i dents My floor than r cooking talents My dishwashing leav challenge the sink Councillor Norm buddy system child being for o innings of the Series BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE Smileys formula to save Canada And managing young Ethan succeeded in bringing out the worst in me Im afraid He still does his act at changing time And enjoys eating peas through his left ear And pushes the kitchen chairs all over the so he can get at our various breakable adults teaching And he got the last laugh during our roughing it period while Kathy and baby were j lQ in hospital i had scolded him loudly one day the friendly atmosphere for spilling his juice at breakfast That evening as read the paper over dinner I aimlessly reached for my milk and proceeded to dump all over my plate the table my last clean paii of panls and the floor is a devious and under the handed fact The ties are foul and served i Thailand in support of Vietnam activities I hold awards for this service and am proud to have served as a professional Airman so that the Ron- continue to exercise his right of free speech WILLIAM J BURGESS Retired Dr Aurora Ontario He v Yeah yeah OK Daddys a I said meekly Neither of us has spilled his milk BILL GAMBLE Heres a few hints for Halloween are to believe the financial experts that Canada is in for a tough time eco nomically Them damyankees are at it again They are paying as much attention lo our various trade missions and professional winners as would a buffalo changing toward a cliff with a flea on his back screaming that he too would be killed if the buffalo went over the edge Well as the fleas we cant blame it on any body but ourselves Its been too comfortable riding around on the back of that big fat juicy buffalo Better we should have been wasps sting ing instead of sucking Now we know how the Esquimaux and the Indians feel about the rest or us Newspaper editorials are crying the blues telling the government to do something about But rather than bake it To carry on with the cliches Canadians are reaping what Ihcy have sown For several gen erations they have begged foreign capital to invest in this country They have re fused to invest in their own country preferring something safer like Brazilian Traction or and Result The country is crawling with Bri tish Swedish German and American plants directed from abroad I wonder how many Cana dian companies you would find operating suc cessfully in any of those r trying ti get their readers that the US They might as well save their type Its loo late for crying theres no use telling the present government to do anything about anything and the is not interested in getting us it is Interested in getting itself out of the worst eco nomic mess has been in since the thirties Writers of heeditors are offering motional but largely irrational advice 1 One more You cant have both ways You cant be half capitalist half socialist And if you want to play around with a giant among capital ists like the US you need more protection than an Alcan jockstrap You dont send in your high school secondstring juniors to play against Have I a solution Of course I have This anyone who will listen Some would cut Hie lecture wasnt prepared without deep I would thought and deeper research Others would seize or seriously police all American subsidiary companies in Canada That would result in further unemployment as the Yanks started closing plants many of them heav ily subsidized by our own government and start- pulling in their horns Maybe a mouse can frighten an elephant according to legend but a rat cant stop a ship from sinkjag by threatening to jump overboard know its fate Second lets not bite the hand that feeds us Unless that hand tries to give us a cuff on the ear Then bite to hurt Third lets pull in our belts get off our tails and start competing with industrialists in other countries In short stop producing shoddy merchandise at inflated prices Ill take a wage freeze will you Thus endeth the lesson Belles of York Blue Hills Academy in Aurora An Ameri can by birth Janet is a prolific seamstress who enjoys making her own clothes The and now By Robert White of spooks and spectres with their grins and the occasional Witches may be seen perhaps not rilling their ll echoing from the dismal depths clouds but rather l ii tranquility shattered by this madness And if a breath of wind should rise the tremulous whistling through leafless trees will merely add to our disquietude For this is the night when the four boundaries of the town may very well to frantic shrieks of shell out and trick or treat Shell out is one thing but this trick or treat bit is something else again This is the thing that can really cause the inflammation Perhaps nothing short of the mighty hordes of Genghis Khan would be capable of stemming the onslaught of shellouts in on baskets in the mistaken belief that gone if are going to get If you own a car hide it 5 If you own a dog that dislikes weirdly- attired strangers hide that too If a kid says trick or treat a second time dont argue You cant win 7 If a child produces a can for pennies be sure it is genuine then dont give all your loose change to the first Remember therell be more If youre an apartmentdweller dont If you spot the same face at your door more than four times check his credentials 10 Dont try to be too generous Remember about five thousand other people will be doing and those shopping bags get fully heavy for s 11 When your fellow to haul a of goodies dont douse lights just grit your teeth and tell the truth Most kids are human when the chips are down If you have a store window Im sorry