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YCH officials fear public reaction to bed shortage NEWMARKET York Co unty Hospital officials arc wor ried about their relations with the community because a short age of hospital beds coupled with increasing demands on hos pital facilities in 1971 meant fre quent cancellations shorten patient stays unpleasant need to urge rela elderly patients ble The hospital Is scheduled to have a new ISO bed addition constucted but delay piled onto delay for the past six year- and latest word according to hospital board chairman Larry Rubins annual report made public last week is lint const will start late this sum mer It will then take more complete the Boeder said in his annual report in 1971 This was only achieved by shortening the average length of patient stay he said This step is not taken lightly for we are very aware of the impact on the patient and plans to lake time off work bringing in sitters to look after children and generally pre meeting of the hospital when the hospital is op erating to full it is difficult to balance maxi mum the flexibility to cope with the Sir week last year the hos pital had HO to 100 to or 20 lie said the medical staff We are quite concerned over the effect on our public relations in such cancellation- and the effect of urging rela tives to arrange transfers to nursing homes to free up beds for lliose acutely ill he said The return Mr Rubin as chairman of the York Hospital As reelected Jim Ham uli is vice chairman named ISitl secretin mil re turned Don Glass as treasurer The four directorships open tins year were all filled by reap pointment Named were Charl es Boyd Don Class J and Mrs SI It TTJTT VOL NO 12 PAGES ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 1972 T 111 IS CENTS York councillors refuse to cut 72 budget ask to provide grants first Friends Romans a da JOHN NEWMARKET York Re gional Council disappointed an audience of persons its chair man and its chief administrator last Friday when it refused to tackle the job of cutting its pro posed 211 I i budget anticipating a floor battle that never materialized When council after a discussion decided to postpone action on the budget several teenagers linncd and lii- I it- might haw Ibe youth centres new hope for survival or least a slay of execution Some of the things that are shown here as cuts should not be cut said Newmarket Mayor Hob as he Instcad council decided to toss the budget stalemate into the lap of Provincial Treasurer who will meet York officials in his Queens of fice today at pm provide year in uncondi tional grants to the region nor has it received Sorks as sessment figures Without this vital information councillors they cannot act on the bud get the largest audience tourney today S SOME OF YORKS 700 EMPTY SCHOOL SPACES short history Most had come to hear council deal with the hea lth budget in which youth gallery included about House League Teenagers try to save their counselling centre NEWMARKET Teenag- alive The centre is at t ers at Youth Services in New- Dr market arc launching a drive to save the counselling centre from elimination by York Re gional Council And the Richmond Hill So cial Planning Council has reg istered its opposition to budget cuts that would kill youth cen tres in Newmarket and Rich mond Hill and a proposed sys tem of family life counselling ille tie saved if the province delivers on aboid in bill it i m in budget modification made go to a regular council meeting for adoption or rejec tion so programs cut in nun mittee arc not necessary final The Ides of Mm long celebration of things Ro man last Wednesday It Includ ed films debates skits im Bacchanalia Ritual a Ro man marriage ceremony a char iot race left photo and of course Imperial Caesar show ed above ployed by school prin- three years ago In letter council presi dent Rev A Young said it Gail Webb spokesman for the Youth Services teenagers told The Era the young people tre should be retained And she said the teenagers will hold a white elephant sale Saturday The proposed family tres in and Hill under regional control and add new centres in Newmarket and Sutton The cen tre operates under a provincial research grant that expires Ins month Garfield Wright determined to nudge council into adopting about in budget cuts before todays summit meeting in Que ens Park Rut council didnt bile on that strategy arguing instead that it needs answers from Mr before elding how great a tax burden it can afford to place on its tax- Originally todays meeting being asked to help the regions financial crisis Yorks nine mayors its department heads Mr Wright and Mr Ret- sce YORK BUDGET page Trustees study report on school reorganization AURORA Final report I f I school board committee Inch has been studying the will deal with the advantages and ages of various types of school such is junior and will have implications for all principals teachers and students said a board spokes- Lions to reconsider 1M proposal to build a recreation complex NEWMARKET- 1 lucsd3 light to ask the club recreational rkei Lions Club delegation agreed to reconsider a ile proposal made suggested the member nee and build a major own recreation complex in- oiporallng the municipal pool which the Ltd the arena which it is now negotiating for wllh Del Homes as well as a community centre hall squash courts sauna baths No localiott was men- Mr first spokesman for the delega- ilar to the 750000 Earns- complex in The spoke f recreation litics under one roof low er management and main tenance costs and said the Lions Club is prepared to 1 nil- iin- I hi Mr Crossland said the previous fund driv- raise money to build community centre failed ley pointed out that If the dei eloper did agree to give be the value of the pool or arena because it costs the builder a lot less build it himself lhan it would cost the town to do If gave you money It would be his cost He also pointed out the town cannot order the Iwo firms to give cash it can ing agreement with the builder and in the Del case it is negotiating Ho said otic reason the builders agreed to build the recreation facilities along with their subdivi- them sell homes He doubt ed would be anxious to have litem built In an other pari The two fir homes in opposition another You cant ask Del otto to build his arena in subdivision Mr Mien did some quick calculations He estimated that if the two firms could be persuaded to give cash lo the project the most the Lions could hope for would be 125000 from for the pool the builder has agreed stage would be to enclose stead of building the town years off the firm could i pool and arm not bo asked to contribute and Ill that money now said Twln- nils md 17273 winter and from Del works programs were taken He said the maxi advantage of the Lions wo mum in provincial grants uld have to raise available Is and he 200000 estimated the cost of Die At this point Mr Cross- proposal at at least mil lion a hrir liv Mr then pro- Ibe two commit lee be up o Ik persuaded to work to- Sec LIONS Rage Subsidy reinstated roads will be fixed part of the 1072 Newmarket in id i so slushed in the Mayor Hob said Monday The move is a result or ions between members of louncil and Queens Park initial request based on a road needs study done In last year for in subsidies was cut to early in March Mayor said Que- Park has now increased this to and the town ap plied for a supplemen tary grant ami given good reason to believe it will Basically that means we will be able to go ahead with reconstruction of the streets we bad originally planned to do ik he hid is of Lome Ave Church SI Ave Timothy St St and the towns The engineering planned i Lome to Main FISH HUTS Off MAPLE March Is the last daj for fish hut owners to remove Iheir huts from Lake SImcoe despite the fact that the ilaj falls at the beginning of A spokesman for the De partment of Lands and Forests old The Era thai March was the deadline because the Ice Is the engineering NEWMARKET th Annual Newmarket House League Tournament gets under way today at 1230 when the puck will be dropped in the game between the Aurora nov ice and East The tournament which is really four tournaments In one ail day See Page for complete By BRYAN HAY AURORA Simcoe County students living in the Bradford area who want to take high school technical courses will be given the option of coming to Huron Heights Secondary School in Newmarket or the new Aur ora High School this fall A decision to send the stud ents south was taken early this the Simcoe County he York board detailing empty space in high schools York Education Director Sam Chapman said Monday the approach to the Simcoe board was strictly routine and did not require trustee approval of fees to the York County Hoard of Education For high school students this amounts to about a year per student The board picking up on this claims the acceptable grants from the De partment of Education About 700 of the spaces will be at the new Aurora High School Mr Chapman defended building of the school saying There were very advantag eous grant reasons for doing so He agreed that the Toronto- School was conceived in the bite IflGOs and approved before the plan was announced and before the present board came into bo- Space available would also be temporary he said The York administrators report to the Simcoe board which detailed 12 empty class- In Aurora public schools well 1000 high school The high school part of the memo did not take into account that some senior public school pupils would be attending the new high school while the pub lic school figure did he said From Barrio acting educa tion director for Simcoe County Angus defended be shuffle of students to York say- He doubted that there would be said Newmarket Is about miles each way by school from Bradford and Aurora just less than One board official estimates the busing cost to NewmarketAurora at school day