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Search ends in tragedy 3yearold Newmarket boy drowns Threeyearold Rkhird James KESWICK A massive 17- hour search for a threeyearold Newmarket boy ended In tra gedy Sunday when his body was found In six feet of water in the Jersey River The body of Richard James son of Mr and Mrs Richard James of Dr was found by Keswick firemen who were dragging the river Some searchers including police firemen skin divers volunteer citizens a tracking dog and an airplane were in volved in the alt night quest York Regional Police said Richard and his family arrived at the Keswick cottage of his grandmother at pm Satur day The little boy then went to the basement of the cottage to play with some pet rabbits Min utes later his sister Caroline 10 him the at the rear of the property The girl took him back to the house and told him to stay there and not to go near the wa ter Several minutes later he had disappeared water for the rest of the night without results Several skin diving clubs from the Aurora and Toronto area were called In to assist The York Regional Police boat was dispatched to the scene and Staff Inspector Fred Mason was called In to head the search efforts The toddlers body was found at about pm Sunday near a dock at the rear of his grandmothers property Besides the parents and Caroline a brother Todd sur vives Burial was in Aurora Cemetery yesterday following services from the and Rose Funeral Chapel in Newmarket NEW SWANS NEWMARKET Pete and the two familiar allure lovers who visit Brooks Conservation Area taw a fanny Suday Repeat hatched tar the eggs she was sit on ud three of the little survived They were ex pected to be out of the nest ad the lake by Tuesday THE ERA VOL NO I 852 Newmarket 8952331 PAGES ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 1972 IS CENTS JULY NEWMARKET Most pla ces of business will be open in Newmarket this Dominion Day hut closed In Aurora so that re sidents of the town can hold their annual celebrations Both municipal offices will also be closed on Monday The Era will be closed Sat urday hut open on Monday Ottawa kicks in 100000 to cover CNR losses on Newmarket commuter Transport will underwrite 000 towards the operation of trial northsouth train commu ter service But the exact final north ern terminus route and fre quency will not be known until the Sobcrman Study Is made public probably next month This information was made known at a press conference called by YorkSimcoe MP John Roberts on Monday When the is gone then the trial service is over said Mr Roberts lie said this In commenting on a part of Transport Minister Don Jamiesons letter to him which said subsidizing commu ter transportation systems was not a decision he alone could make This decision was one to bo made by the Federal Cabi net Mr letter said But the letter also stated I am satisfied there is a longterm market for a commu ter service linking communities north of Toronto to downtown Toronto Mr Roberts felt and he emphasized this was only his that the Rich the local Ion of the trial service The northern terminus would likely be near Wesley Corners just cast of Don Mills on the Aurora Mr Roberts said John who operated he GoGo Special from Barrio to Toronto in said the trial run would be more successful if the King- Ma pie- Aurora -New- way from their Chief suspects fire bug in Mount Albert area more likely to use the service ban those Richmond Hill liv ing near ore said Mr Mod- York North Bill Hodg son also disagreed with Mr Ro berts contention NewmarketAurora route would be used by more people Using this route would be taking service to the people while the other route would mean taking people to the ser vice said Mr Hodgson See editorial page Mr Roberts said the Malls of the trial service would be de termined after a study by Prof Richard Sobcrman of the Uni versity of Toronto is completed The Federal Government in concert with the CNR would study the report and work out the details as to route schedule fares and what the railway would charge for the service Both Mr Hodgson and Mr were high in their praise of Mr Roberts efforts 1 the commitment for i A HISTORIC CALL History came alive last week for students at Holland Landing School The students have spent the past several months the history of their collecting anil jitcs prcpar tag research projects learning pioneer skills and taping lutoriiiws with senior citizens Wednesday the effort a history festival More than people came grade six pupil David places a call on one of the wo old phones he children hooked up between rooms More photos on page Lagoon polluting Hack R council told special report with the The Sutton sewage lagoon Is polluting the Black River and because of pol- in the river the water system which serves cottages wont operate this year township coun- told Monday Mrs Jean Noble old coun- is flowing into sample bottles she brought None would Mrs Noble a hied that many people in the Briars area ire upset lliat tin water tern wont operate and she lold council the problem seems to have arisen because the sewage lagoon was drained five feet this spring Engineeradministrator Ger ry said the Sutton lagoon system Is being changed to a system Under a Min istry of the Environment order the lagoon had to be drained At Its present level the la- LAGOON page night It had bet been there about hour before the fire was report ed and saw nobody around the building Mr Green said there have been nine or such fires In the past few months but there is really been nothing to say that they wore set he said The chief said only one a 20000 house fire near Zephyr was investigated by suits of that invest gatlon That house was empty while being remodelled In Mount Albert a drive shed owned by Rose burned while the family was out and in May two extensive race horses perished in a drive shed which burned in the same vil lage The fire In the Wilfred Rose barn in which the horses died started in broad daylight and the barn sal in the of a field Chief Green said he did mi see how it could arson Eight flags stolen market Veterans Association raised a new Union Jack on the flagpole next to their hall on Millard Ave at Church St Less than hours later the flag was gone stolen And in recent months said Dave the Associations public relations chairman wilh other pressing for this need Mr Hodgson told Mr Roberts I am delighted said Mr and this should cer tainly strengthen the govern ments election prospects in this name coach manager NEWMARKET Newmar ket Redmen owner Dong Miller announced a new coach and manager for the hockey team at a press conference last week stating that he had not ap proached Rill about stay ing managerial duties with Jack Lowell inking over behind the bench The same twosome look he Newmarket midgets to the AllOntario finals two years ago Forhan told The Era he had informed Miller he did not want the coaching job He added hat he will not he head coach of mi nor hockey Ibis coming season However Progressive Con servative candidate Sinclair Ste vens termed the announcement an election ploy Mr Slevens said a regular commuter service not just a demonstration run had been promised four years ago when Mr Roberts was elected Definite plans for the run have not been determined Mr Slovens said The route may go through Maple or Vandorf and Cat burglar hits four homes NEWMARKET York Regional detectives believe a eat burglar is operating in New- into earlier this week and a quantity of items stolen Two houses on Roywood a in Monday The first house owned by Donald 306 Roy wood While the family slept a burglar forced a kitchen win dow and stole Then on the same street a house owned by Ren Hollander was entered the same way and was stolen Terence Bell George St and his family were sleeping Monday night when their home was entered and a rifle and watch stolen 315 had and noticed For from a window and two pair pants were missing One had a wallet in it con taining 500 cash James Hardy Elgin St had two packs of cigarettes and a lighter stolen from bis home In broken into A door was forced and a fishing tackle box stolen containing two cheques total- to probe charge that influenced police action NEWMARKET insistence of Police Commis sioner Ray Chief Bruce Crawford has been ordered to investigate allegations that Mr pressured York Reg ional Police to lay off over loaded gravel pit trucks on the Mulock In King Town- The oi day after Mr Twinney said he was considering slander char ges against Rev Donald Stirling minister of York Pines United Church in Kettleby Mr Twinney said that at recent King ratepayers meet ing Rev Stirling accused him of putting undue pressure on Chief Crawford to stop ticket ing overloaded trucks from the controversial Young Mines gravel pit Mr vehemently denied exerting such pressure said he had never talked to Chief Crawford about the sub ject and added I dont even know where the gravel pit is Rev Stirling claims police officers told him they were or dered not to ticket gravel pit The that he had been named as an advocate of the policy Mr allowed that if a police officer in fact had his name in connection with the gravel pit then perhaps Hey Stirling had a right to make such charges And If policemen did use his name In that connection they should bo reprimanded tie chief or commission Mr Tun charged Mr also alluded to a report published elsewhere that Sue Stewart neighbor of the gravel pit also named him as an advocate of the hands- policy He said he was con sidering suits for slander against both Rev Stirling and Mrs the Concerned Citizens of King meeting where the latest contro versy erupted said Mrs Stewart did not use Sir name and bad not heard his name be fore that night Mr called Mr Stirling a frustrated politic or a guy who wants to be a poli tician who should go to bis church and stay out of politi cal matters Mr Twinney said he has learned that police officers have used his name many times regarding parking tickets and the police force other than is vote on the police See page Liberals obviously feel they may lose this riding so theyre now witling to spend up to 1 per vote of public funds In an at tempt to hold the scat Debbie collected 7 tons of paper NEWMARKET Sixteen- yearold Debbie Fitzgeralds crusade to help clean up New market brought her nearly seven tons of old newspapers last weekend The pretly Newmarket High School she will enter grade in September took the cleanup project upon her self this spring after she had been unsuccessful in interesting a school She arranged with York Sanitation Ltd to have a large refuse container left in the town parking lot behind south end Main St cleared her project students to distribute them throughout town Youth Services volunteered to run a pickup service for those unable to deliver their papers to the parking lot Waste paper flooded in all day Saturday and Sunday and by Sunday Debbie borrowed the money to cover printing and other ex penses from the schools council and York Sanitation did charge her for 11 There it is sold Debbie realized about a ton for her seven tons It cost her about to have it sent to Toronto and the balance of the goes to pay off the Student council loan employee of the Four churches plan cleanathon NEWMARKET Four Newmarket churches are com bining to sponsor sored by the hour to pick up garbage throughout the town Don Jams who Is the event explained that Over 30000 was raised by people this year The event is sponsored by Grace Church Church of the Tabernacle and Christian Baptist Church