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grandstanding biased library vicechairman NEWMARKET Charges that Ray Is In favor of recreation pro grams and was grandstanding at last weeks council meeting during a debate on the town lib rary boards proposed budget were levelled Monday by library board vicechairman John Burst I am Indeed disappointed at Councillor Ray at tempt at grandstanding through the use of your newspaper to gain support for anticipated cuts In the Newmarket Library Boards budget request Like wise I resent the councils veiled threat towards our con tinued existence said Mr Borst in a to The Era Neither Mr nor any other library board member ex cept Coun Doris Blair the only member of council to sit on the board he council meeting Mrs Blair did not sup port the library budget At tho meeting the library budget which Is about per council members Mr pointed out it Is higher than the recreation department budget suggested a majority of the lib rary board should be council members since council must raise the money and said the town cant afford the per cent Increase Mayor Bob For- nan pointed out some munici palities are considering elimin ation of library boards Mr said boards budget request is Indeed sub stantial increase but one which Is long overdue remarks certainly show where his bias lies as recreation com mittee chairman This is not surprising when the first and only lime to my knowledge Mr ever entered tho New market Public Library was at our personal Invitation last Ap ril Are councillors not supposed to serve all aspects of the com munity not Just their pet pro jects Certainly this is one rea son why council should not run the library The library board vice- chairman said the board lias tried to cooperate With council In but charged lat year the councils Implied co rn was in many ways an illusion Said Mr Hoist In 1069 the board had a per capita expendi ture In per capita spending dropped to 2 ID and of about per per son still well below the average of per person for Ontario as a whole he said hit Up board had been requesting en ough money to hire a chief lib rarian for many years before the money was granted last year and he said when it canto In it crime bemuse of the increased size of the town not because of councils cooper- He also pointed THE vol no PAOES ONTARIO WEI ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 1972 NEWMARKET IS CENTS Newmarket teens ask Ottawa for 1 7000 for summer survey seeking from the fede rallyfunded Opportunities for Youth program to conduct a townwide survey of recreation and other young peo ple a week during June July August and part of Sep call on every home Conservation Authority in preparing his questionnaire lie does not expect to know whether bis project will be ap proved by the Ottawa authori ties until April 20 The students survey will Charge King woman with welfare fraud charged with counts of de frauding the York Regional wel fare police reported this week Between October 1070 and January 1972 a woman de frauded tho welfare department of approximately York Regional Police said During parts of that period she was receiving welfare assistance while working She also collec ted unemployment insurance benefits while receiving welfare police said Arrested last Friday and released on a notice to appear In court today was Barbara of Concession 3 King Township cover all leisure time and recre ational facilities in Newmarket as well as attempt to determine what town residents want and need in the way of new facili ties and programs The group plans to rent of fice space and start knocking on doors June 1 It hopes to co ver all the homes in town by the end or July The balance or the summer will be spent collating the results and writing a report The results and will then be presented to the New market recreation committee and to the conservation author ity and will include recommen dations pointing out gaps in the towns recreation establishment Newmarket council set up an Opportunities for Youth Pro- students would be paid to do maintenance work on homes of senior citizens It fell flat be cause Ottawa refused to accept it although a similar Aurora project was funded This year official the Opportunities for Youth pi gram was being come from Ottawa for most people March deadline that Education on he rami grades one to children above arc on heir way from s Stuart Scott I School in he background to Rogers Public a few blocks where hey will be the first students in the new school The students mined their classes and bonks last Wednesday Leading them Is teacher Mrs Hall White photo EAST GWILLIMBURY Lousy service so stop humane society payment SHARON East bury wants spokesmen from the Ontario Humane Society on carpel to explain tin- lousy set- the township Is gelling in Also at issue is tin by 15 cents he rial And control wedge for a clout the township is It officially notified i i i discussion on the l that it might be more bene- for the township to briny Whole of tannic con I ark ii i a off i with last under which Parts of L Simcoe unfit for swimming professor tug battles tho town- ton having the the killing of two log pack in the deer aid ltd area on lack of action by ials following TORONTO Green slime and excessive weed growth have made two parts of Lake unfit for swimming a Univer sity of Toronto professor has Jon Van Loon blamed sewage treatment effluent pipes poorly functioning septic tanks north of the Holland Marsh near Ihc Holland River and a- round the City of He said he problem does not en The associate professor vincial or federal assistance to a head she told council on Monday in urging thai the bill be put over until a later dale Were paying out this mon ey and what arc we getting for nothing snapped Coun- ROSS Chapman Residents with specified complaints the will he invited to the meet ing with spokesmen likely to he held at Ihc township of here on Monday evening Mayor may run Ken withdrawal mi polities are premature So says Mayor after repnrls last week that he would not seek reelection In the December municipal least people who read the reports phoned on one day alone to that thev wen concerned and me o run again said Mayor I have not made a definite decision yd said the town ships nor and a 10year REPAIRS TO SHARON TEMPLE EMERGENCY paints and preservative halt deterioration In historic Sharon Temple a York and Historical Society has contrived to keep this unique building in reasonably good repair but now the Tem ple must bo painted Inside and outside If Us fabric is to be Temple committee chairman The society statement term ed the restoration of the inter ior an emergency operation for It said the Temple Is feet square and the first storey alone is feet high The It pillars and the frames of the double windows are bare and cracking The plaster which is water stained and weakened must ho repaired The original calcimine used on the plaster must he cleaned off by hand and the whole preser ved by two coals of paint Wo need in 1072 for this urgent preservation project To the best of our knowledge the interior has not been painted since the build Ing was completed years ago said Society state- The operation complex buildings is fin- of flv anced from admissions to the museum donations a grant from York Region sales of books pamphlets etc by the Society and interest from a small endowment fund which has been built up over the years mayors representative council appoints three board members Instead of hurling threats at the hoard council should hi trying to understand the role that a good fully library can play In the nity he Said Wo have a dy namic experienced chief librar ian and the over 10000 lercd borrowers arc hoping will be able to provide them the kind of service a town bordering on population is entitled to Library budget must continue to grow chief librarian NEWMARKET The budget which so badly upset town councillors last week when it arrived from the Public Library Hoard will just barely get tilings off the ground says chief librarian Mrs Nina May Walsh She doesnt foresee any slackening in the library systems increasing need for funds for years to come According to Mrs Walsh the library should have a book collection double its present size and should have al least three universitytrained professionals on staff six fulltime clerical staff as well as an increased number of parttime employees Mrs Walsh was hired last year as the towns first and only professional librarian and the library now employs three other fulltime people The budget pro posal whlcl last week landed on the desks of councillors al ready harried by faltering tax revenues spiralling costs and decreasing provincial grants is close to a per cent boost over he library hoards total of and is more than three times the bud get of 28000 It brought a pained remark from chairman Ray Twinney that is more than the whole creation program budget an off the cuff offer from recreation commissioner Dan Shannon Li take over the library and run it as part of his department ami not so subtle hints from Mayor Hob and Twinney that they might try to put the service directly under councils control Mrs Walshs reaction to the hubbub around her budget which she had already seen cut by the library board from to about was to point out that a lot of people ap parently thought when Hie town hired a professional librarian last year that was the only major expense that would be re quired to update the public library system It just doesnt work that way she said She produced charts and graphs to show how Newmarkets library service slacks up with that in other towns of comparable size Of eight towns chosen ranging in population from New markets 10964 by figures to 21790 Newmar ket had less than half the average number of books in its collec tion hat the others did and collects the lowest provincial grant In addition the town has the second lowest per capita expen diture on libraries For instance Newmarket with people had lil- rary borrowers The library had volumes and circulated 73731 books during the year Owen Sound with a population of 17789 had library book borrowers a book collection of 71815 volumes and cir culated books during the year Last year besides adding a chief librarian ami new books to Us collection Newmarket Increased adult library bouts per cent to hours and juvenile hours by nearly per cent to jumping circulation 36 per cent along the way Besides the doubling of fulltime staff from two to four last year the parttime staff was increased from five to eight Last year when library board members were lobbying for a big enough budget to he able to hire 1 chief librarian one of their main selling joints was that a professionallytrained lib rarian on staff would qualify Newmarket as a Central Ontario Regional I But v goli id would lart a films or of tape cassettes but if were going to do that we need funds to carry on and just isnt going to do it said the chief librarian who described this years budget as a one Where will the money go if the town council does agree to the full appropriation The cost of books is up 10 per cent over last ye 15 per cent and postage 33 pi cent for starters said the librarian Bigger staff the budget includes for a full lime clerical assistant Rook processing costs are up In years past the library and put covers ugh a regional pre service costs per book However 10 bo done properly with in the library would cost 2 to per book said Mrs Walsh The budget includes a summer student to do a book inven tory Right now we really dont know how many books we barely enough to buy 20 In the is a small budget for special programs guest speakers children attractions displays and ail she and for new lighting and an inside and outside paint job What lies in he chief librarian future plans Much bigger book budgets she said Adding volumes a year will take a long long time to reach lie accepted mini mum of two volumes per person in I A new addition to the present building Were really prelty cramped i Possibly bookmobiles for rural communities outside the library branch I think the library board should be thinking of putting a branch in a new shopping mall if one is built And she said a little wistfully it would be nice to have a collapsible puppet theatre and baud puppets to go with it