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Keswick Wed THE ERA Phone 2331 St DAVID HASKELL Yorks budget So they are going to let Provincial Treasur er solve it for them It all started about two weeks ago when Regional Council acting as a Finance Committee sat down to trim a proposed million budget After two days of discussion they lopped from the budget Council again acting as a Finance Committee met last Friday anil accomplished nothing in the way of trimming the budget In fact the which was trimmed about two weeks ago is still in the budget be cause a Finance Committee cannot make the ulti mate decision A committee can only recom mend council must approve or disapprove a rec ommendation Instead Regional Council will take the orig inal raw uncut million dollar budget to a meeting with Mr today They will ask him to solve their problem Now one wonders what Mr an swer will be Will lie ask councillors how they can justify their annual salary when they cant strike a budget Rut lie also look at the dilemma fac ed by Yorks Regional Councillors The Council was asked to strike a budget without first knowing what the provincial grants McKeough will would bo Grants amount to a staggering per cent of the budget and on most programs such as roads and social services council knows eligible for specific grants If the pro grams arc carried out Rut the big question arises in the area of unconditional transitional grants which to talled more than million last year Council has no guarantee thai figure will be the same in 1972 If its not Yorks in financial trouble Coupled Willi this unknown arc two state ments from Mr When the regional form of government was TERRY CARTER have to decide established Mr said the province would curb through grants any undue tax burden to residents that Regional Government might bring Does this mean that York In 1972 will gel more or less then it received from the Just this week Mr McKeough said that when he presents the provinces budget next week spending in all government departments would he irimmed Docs this mem that York In will gel more or less then it received In The ball is now In Mr McKeoughs court Received sentence they deserved Justice was swift and sure in Newmarket Provincial Court last week Two thugs received what they deserved when they were sentenced to years in peni tentiary Judge Clare Morrison heard evidence about how these men robbed two stores a sawed off shotgun and a knife and were in an attempt to rob a third in Metro Roth men admitted lengthy records includ ing custody Both men were on parole the time they committed their armed robber ies Roth men were armed when they were ar rested by York Regional police In the past too many courts have been too to hardened criminals and let them off with light sentences and in some cases suspend ed sentences In sentencing the pair ludio Morrison said there must be a deterrent to others to prevent repetition of serious and tint must with the moused adding York police are to be commended for bringing these thugs to trial and Judge Mor rison is to he commended for protecting the public from them Old Ontario and now living In Rive pen his spore lime lour yoon his old buildings Above is his County Standing a few mites south of Banjo il was bull THE Readers ERA This is reserved or comments opinions drawings of The Eras read ers Please feel free to send yours- along All we is that you Include your name and address Dog Club objects to Hector story class- era tolly hold dog lilt reflect on all com I lower the stand- NOTES The problems and woes of car ownership don to date iKiel Keswick Pub- ln suet iuu learning as we the perfection dog Dor nil do I have had some bad luck on the highways the past two months and through all the In sanity of owning and driving a car has been brought forcibly home to me You sec a car is worse than a spendthrift wife Let me explain what mean About ill months ago I bought a 1971 Volkswagen It was brand spanking new and 1 was proud of it But very quickly realized how much a car costs to 1cm You see I have been rather nonchalant about driving Overconfident mjghl be an unkind way of putting it I am al the point where if I did not need my car for my work I think would sell and buy a bicycle It has become almost for me anil tint is win people would rather buck traffic in a car than take public transit I suppose it is symbolic of this do your own Irilng li mill 1 Mill somehow I barken bail I Airport decision may portend concrete jungle of long Police officer off and the has rusted away So my pay ments were high by my own choice Then even though it is an economical car there are expenses for maintenance Tuneups and oil changes can be costly Last week I had to buy two new back tires and that put another big dent in my budget And my ear has been very dupe ii trouble free About six weeks ago I was involved 111 in on the Don Valley Toronto was nl Thei I her I In fact for a better car as far as do tret don of movement thai BILL SMI LEYS SUGAR AND SPICE wiclih Leasts I be mam nude of transput I was horse or fool power If you ride a horse you are not separated from your environment hut a part of it if you drive a car the steel shell sep arates yon from what you are passing through It seems to me a alienating in fluence when three lanes of traffic are hacked up for miles on the Don Valley Parkway Peo ple are sitting in their cars impatiently wailing for Hie car ahead of them to move being in the car separates them from the people in ought insane if in the middle of a traffic t I got out my car walked the car held and introduced myself to the occupant Iy NORM CAFIK MP Liberal Ontario riding I idt 1 lite location of an airport in Pickering Town 1 to look at quality of life considerations as far more important in the long run than of economic development for its l Im dhiw 1 that thai the Old friends the purest gold ol ihc 111 pott and the t I think one has to 11 re full look the overall implications of such phonom growth and lo see if tins kind of plotless is really desirable The prevailing wisdom of 10 or years ago that economic growth for its own sake was a desirable tiling is no Inline an accepted die my wife be the way she wo than liiri my Yes dad instead of Loud Dad Why cant my son do something besides shake his head in agony when expound on the virtues of hard work meeting your payments and all that It We went to University together fought mostly our way into the lucent Palace in together ant lie set me up with the cold est woman I ever met when he couldnt keep a dale ami had me fill in Hie l l ie- I- laughed at them If you are not up on the latest slang jotks were Hie those days crewcut In fie jam Tension wo LI be lessened and the inrschcs wl are III 1 en his tins growth wl thing would e a friendly gathering mid what arc lis disadvantages Well cars are only lie aide It pi vices to or modern would Still stum in asm papulation in a never end- circle 1 lacks of It wonder if 1 am after all also a basin ilsow I really give it ii liltlc roach clear Al risk sounding I iry the dvatitacis 1 this approach and do think they should be kept in the a cool dry spot to be brought out at the like Snider remember Oh yeah those However as they say when they dont know other way of gelling back on the track old friends preserve not only their sanity journalism says he has been writing in Ottawa for the Canadian Press for two cen turies This is known as understatement or litotes if you are taking English from me ami They unfortunately 1 Ian Lie over the latest vicious review of a play who parrot anyone who has ever uttered a lion mot who are seen all the light places write a para graph or a scene or a poem They are the flies who hut around a carcass must be dead If shows signs of life they slunk with alarm ami retreat into generalities like Well after all hes only doing his own thing If his thing is vomiting on the carpel thats fine Sorry chaps Didnt mean to get mean I have a toothache Mac and became friendly because I was ihe only nonfreak in Middle We were talking about old friends And in Lis letter Dave said something that struck mo He said Weeklies are a gold mine Hes right Belles of York River employ A ins nl spruit summer mil- look tight lh esiA by While s of land Township were set aside for the creation of When people are put into an area between ami the Town of Whitby below No we simply stated that Metropolitan loroiilt in fact will ex tend across thai whole are The question of jur isdiction is irrelevant such circumstan ces The simple fact is that they are going lo create an extension of Toronto will reach over to Is this an intelligent thing to do Isnt Toronto too lug already Where will our children and inline gi rations find a blade of grass in thai immense area Where are the mo- I I 1 i- 1 in I 1 I i in- iiii need a between Toronto and Do we in fact want to create another Los eiilv but 111 the development without out having a meaningful v in what will ike place Even Ihe quest ion of a need for a second airport needs to he answered Some experts have estimated that an traffic will from ii nullum passengers per year lo CO million by the year I daresay that one could find experts on the other side of the coin who would project far different figures and perhaps even project the obsolescence of the present type of airport itself If this kind of growth is going lo happen II then stop Ihe kind of develoj wo these essential questions shall set i motion forces which will be difficult if not iiipossible to control Our decisions todai to why we allowed the creation of a concrete jungle across our area Mr is Member of Parliament for On tario Hiding The riding includes all of Township