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THE ERA Serving York Coral Since R HASKELL TERRY CARTER JOIN Red tape is fouling up winter works programs Red tape procrastinating and possibly bureau- were The council passed bungling are making a farce of winter financing law and Region approved works programs for this area It When Ottawa announced Its winter works Ottawa was notified but under the rules of program in late fall under which municipalities the fonml application for building programs can be paid of the town hall project for a winter works per cent of the cost of the labor used on these grant be made to Ottawa until the pro- programs up to 31 Newmarket was in an had been approved by the Ontario Municipal excellent position to take advantage and build a Board new town hall the it went and down at lst Januarys expansion of the town made the it still sits a municipal building a necessity and this Grants under federal program can only rail a Timothy Si- site welllocated for such a be obtained on work done before May 31 and so Use became available tin provincial board delays its deci The mayor and council moved immediately on the Newmarket project Is a day less for Plans for the building and negotiations for the which the town can receive grants department wale it for use whether this to bo i but is still as a courthouse The plan would go ahead or not Queens Park before Christ mi If public works decides not to lake over Iho building the town could still take advantage of Ontarios winter works program to have sonic muchneeded painting and renovating done on But project is Its time to stiffen snowmobile regulations Its the snowmobile again and much longer then the snowmobile and over tho disregard of life and property of others by drive uniting this toll may challenge the automobile number of mechanical and safety improvements There is already legislation on the books for the lop spot in the death parade In the snowmobile the speed of people from irresponsible Since the snowmobile season started stalls- these machines ins increased 10- fold while the lies have shown that the vast majority of deaths braking and lighting system has remained occurred when a machine has collided with the same It is time snowmobile manufacturers design- i their machines with more than speed in mind lime legislation forced ihcm to improve the driving their snow mobile through mobile drivers Bui this is not enforced it Is next to impossible to apprehend offenders Perhaps it is time for police departments to 1 Old Ontario Rive Drive Perk ho THE Readers ERA for the i of Tht E fee free to wb ask is that address at night 5 show that inaugurate a snowmobile patrol of alcohol Statistics also show that in Occidents alcohol is involved However the automobile has been around tho winter Sn water patrol during the But how are you going to stop people from automobile brakes and the lights man a fct re John tott wrote tho machines they into a treo all by Ihcmselv NEWSROOM NOTES The snowmobile saga One more time John loll dashed off letters of protest One leller is printed elsewhere on this page The other is not being printed because Us author lacked the of tar across the neighbors lawn Tiros went in that deep he said spreading his hands a foot apart His neighbor hasnt spoken to him since Nor has he driven his machine across lawn Two women from different sections of New market called to say thev agreed with my tion that snowmobiles should be banned from all and roads One said her six ear old laughter recently was struck by a snowmobile on a street in East Heights She i off the streets petition for now to gel the machines holding the keeping an Reaction lo my was varied One suggested I w III ir 11111 Another woman In Hie en petition that will have i It by tin- time It goes stay and thai we all should work logctl solve the problems rather than machines wholesale lint argument Werner who resort and obviously has special areas such as Mr And I in no objection to snowmobiles up ami down the open countryside as long as they dont bother anyone else finis called obviously feel don street operation ton courtesy afier spending the money on a machine and a lici Funny though hat winter He drove his deadlir BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE And you can be part of all this This is the lime when pundits across the land speculate in type about what the coming year will bring forth If there Is one thing we dont need more of in this country it is pundits have pundits economic pundits sports pundits Most of thorn spend most of their verbiage disagreeing with oilier pundits in Hie same field What is a pundit It is a person who knows a little more about illy nothing than we nonpundits Having unburdened myself of those sour pundit corieniiiig 1072 Read carefully now so that youll have a clear picture of what we shall face this year Most parts of Canada will have lots of snow nobody will give me an argument on that one Rigid now outside my window it looks like plucking day at tho chicken factory The population taxes and your fuel hill will increase This statement is not based on fact on pure intuition Especial the part about taxes According to some of the rosy statements In the new tax reform hill bustled through parliament I v ill i I I Mil if Ljil iimigti to buy an overcoat from the Salvation Arm I Rut they cant fool an old taxpayer like mo know with sickening clarity that if one level of government hands me a few bucks some oilier level will he digging three times as much out of my back pocket The wageprice spiral will continue though perhaps not as rapidly The reason Were all greedy as pigs at a trough And the biggest pigs the strongest unions and the most firmly entrenched capitalists will gel more out of the trough than the runts the ordinary Joes There will be a federal election and whoever wins there will be promises galore new brooms being waved in all directions and the country according to the pundits will still he going straight to the dogs The churches will continue to be onethird filled and scrambling for enough money to stay who are now merely a gleam in soim eye will In- hi in Ami good luck to them when they mighty complex world Thousands will die met let just hope you and I are not among them I dont waul to go until 1 gel my mortgage pant off Isnt supreme purpose of living Thousands of kids will with drugs and some of them will end up tragic figures I in It will ignore he chant of becoming vegetables and will lead happy healthy useful lives loving learning sad and happy Unemployment will continue lo be a fairly desperate situation the schools will again he jammed to rafters with students who shouldnt he there and dont want lo be Ihcrc hut for whom there is nothing else to do There will bo thousands of broken homes and marriages turned lo dust llul Ihere will be thousands of dreamy eyed brides and proud young grooms positive nothing could ever happen to their love which is something special There will he wars thai have no victories and peace conferences that go Interminably proceeding from nowhere lo nowhere The Unit Nations will again announce that It Is going broke hut nobody will ante up enough to pay the bills Thousands of bright young people will emerge from college spilling over with knowledge and come face to face with that brutal edict you cant gel a job with no experience and you cant get experience until you get a job Hut thousands of others will break Iheir backs to gel into college where ihey will learn all about Life and find I Does this all sound of familiar to you should Does all sound rather depressing It shouldnt Youll have your downs youll have your ups too those glorious and fleeting times when you wouldnt he anyone else any where else Your children will change preferably for the better hut dont count on it The year will fly by Make it a good one by Ihlnklng positively Canadian Woods be serious for a moment Canada adopt this education Vietnam Pakistan Northern Ire- laud Israel Black Power crime birth control overpopulation taxes and so on Mind you thered be a lot of bugs to Iron out For example theres the blabbermouth who likes to go around telling everyone about the new joke lies just heard This character probably would hog the phone for hours waiting for the