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AatMlll THE ERA Serving Yofk County Since St io by Inland Publishing Co for years for one h Buht iattwrlM timbr Phone Newmarket 30 Charles St Phone Aurora 7174024 Ed DAVID CARTER HASKELL JOHN Editor WALLACE Benefits of flood plain restrictions still uncertain Newmarkets Main St from Timothy to Water will be under water Lacal Industries and The Era on Charles St GlenviHe Dairy and Cash and Carry Plywood and Lumber on Davis Dr will be under water Place and Stuart Scott Public School win be under water On the surface the flood warnings contained I a study commissioned by the South Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority are alarming But it must be pointed out that this vast flood plain land in the Town of Newmarket would only be under water if there was as much rainfall as Hurricane Hazel and that the eye of the storm is directly oyer the town And Conservation Authority officials admit that a storm of Hazels magnitude strikes only once in about years I The Authority is attempting to curb all future development in the area its study says is flood plain land This means existing buildingshomes tores or factories could not be added to without the express permission of the Authority and this seems highly unlikely at the moment It also means that the redevelopment of the older parts of town to modern stores or more modern homes would be done without Authority Until that is received the SLSCA study permission also unlikely should beas they say in municipal circles- It also means that new developmenthomes received and filed stores and factories would not be permitted There is no doubt that a storm of Hazels without Authority approval intensity would have a serious effect on Newmarket last year commissioned its own Newmarketeach time it came perhaps every study of the Holland River to determine if there years any flwjding and if so what can be M rjoubt smart every time you were struck by lighting Time to look at good housekeeping bylaw a bylaw could be put Mr Taylor pointed out that three vacant service stations in town are becoming eyesores Mrs Blair said a number of empty houses are in terrible shape and Mr Scott cited other vacant houses on Grace St which have not been tended Councillor Taylor no report has been forthcoming The report is long overdue and so is con sideration of a standards bylaw- Newmarket Good housekeeping bylaws property standards bylaws as they are technically known have ominous connotations- they suggest politicians and policemen snooping around our kitchens and bedrooms But thats not the point of them at all The minimum standards bylawsand many municipalities now have them are designed to give the municipally authority to order repairs made where safety or the community welfare are concerned Situations cited at the last town council NEWSROOM NOTES No envy here for eastern vacationer haskell Many of you readers have taken your holidays and most of you- have enjoyed them The weather for the most part this summer has been nice to holiday in but not too nice to work in Its been awfully hot The following letter is from a fellow whose holiday has not been what you might say very enjoyable It is reprinted below with certain deletions to protect the anonymity of the writer The reason the man is an member and not a fullfledged member is that he failed to turn out at the Forums Christmas Tree Light Tour last month and a weed inspecting trip in January If he fails to turn out for the Forums tour of ice fishing conditions on Lake this mouth he will be drummed out of the Forum and not even be permitted to take part in Here is the poor fellows tetter The old deleted is thinking that you need a preliminary report of our trip so far to PEI Aug 1 We left deleted at 1030 am and returned an hour later to retrieve a forgotten alarm clock an auspicious beginning to our trip Late that afternoon we arrived In Broekville in the pouring rain to visit friends living on the St Lawrence River The rain let up and after dark they took us to see the ancient courthouse and four ancient churches in an ancient square with an ancient fountain all supposed to be brightly lit up All was in darkness They also took us to see a fantastic view across the St Lawrence Due to the fog and gloom we saw nothing but darkness After due conversation we retired to a double bed The pillows were so high our heads were like balloons on the surface of a calm lake The bed was so bouncy that every time one of us turned the other was tossed as if in a lifeboat on a stormy ocean My wife an l gave each other a consoling pat once a while nothing could be done as our hosts were in the next bedroom with a tissue paper wall between We went to sleep about am Half an hour later I leapt out of bed thinking the alarm clock had gone crazy It turned out to be the loud whistle of an ocean freighter in the fog About pm we left assuring our friends we had had a lovely sleep Aug We arrived in Montreal after two hours of rainy driving and eventually connected with Highway 20 after an hour of going around under over bridges bank ana forth At any rate it was smooth sailing until we approached Quebec City when it began to rain harder and harder With the spray flying passing a car let alone a truck was like a blind man walking down a street without his cane and with someone pounding his head with a 10pound hammer l HORSE AND BUGGY BRIDGE The old Iron Queen St bridge over the Canadian National tracks built In hone and buggy days and now barely able to accommodate two automobiles going in opposite directions will soon disappear from the Newmarket scene A new bridge will be built to replace the during the forthcoming of St from Prospect St to Main St Readers ERA This space is reserved for the comments opinions and drawings of The Erafe read ers Please feel free to send yours along All we ask is that you include your narne and address Appreciated home care the repercussions that Snowmobiles make gratitude for the nurses of the Home Care Program for the Regional Municipality of York the police are forgetting their original motto To Serve and Protect and using their position of trust and authority to rather Abuse and Intimidate brought up where the respected but should be allowed to claim parcels of to acres upon payment of a rail would make these properties available and proper spacing and zoning would prevent the which ended his life last little gods All this convinces me of the great privilege of now residing in the blest County of York Ontario It would do these the operation of the Newmarket Summer Hockey School Two of my sons spent an enjoyable two weeks session in July at this hock school After driving my boys to the school I stayed to watch The young instructors preach the boys were taught all the basic skills the need to be a strong balanced skater how to shoot wrist snap and slap shots the value of passing etc All this given with hist the right Americans via the tax sales Yet present government policy aims to forcing native About miles from RiviereduLoup a dense fog came down It became very cold and in the visibility swirling powdery snow could be seen on the road Worse still it was a new section of road and no markings had been put down Eventually we collapsed in a motel It was very quiet you could hear the people in the rooms on either side above and outside In my son developed a nose cold and with Ope far has been a great strength to me in sadness and for this I wish to express my deep Bradford for recreation Medcof auks government buys the land to lease il to other tar- holdings and the granting it a raucous snore very little sleep that night Aug We left Rlvieredu the and cold but ran out of It in northern New Brunswick where the scenery was beautiful eureka we had all of minutes of sun Things were uneventful until we reached Moncton We had a good dinner and stayed in a motel near the Magnetic Hill We never did see this phenomena as it rained heavily After we retired The night accountant was trying to figure out our dinner I had already paid The resulting rage and flowing adrenalin caused another loss of steep Aug We crossed the Straits or Nor thumberland in the fog and light rain and finally reached PBI and our destination the accommodation and thick red mud is fine Aug Fine walk son found a sting ray raining After reading this account I know you will envy me and wish you had taken this Journey rather than having to attend the mandatory and dutiful meeting of the Citizens Forum To the above I say Not really Newmarket Thinks police havent earned public respect Would you kindly afford me this op portunity to compliment Mr Gorman and Mrs Limber on their for thright and honest re arks ami err I In police force of your region It is Indeed aptly that recreation land In Ontario there ore acres and about WW people Yet In a supposedly free enterpri se province about percent of the land by the Province of A positive policy for recreation land would mean better prospects to our depressed areas An active land grant road and timber rights granted to big from time time Hut grants Borden boys enjoyed hockey school Through spiralling prices it hard almost impossible to get value tor your money But for a very modest cost we got more than a bargain from the hockey school My sons enjoyed a pleasant hockey experience I sense that when my boys play hockey this winter hey will play a little belter be better sports Tor having spent these two weeks with Newmarket Redmen So may 1 end as I began thanking these Newmarket people who run the Redmen Summer Hockey School with the best wishes from my family J Barker a place to call their mi than timber should be thrown open for recreational use More letters See Page 5 Newspaper TV coverage of Deasley murder went too far Green Sometimes I am ashamed to admit my involvement with the press For although lam not a fulltime reporter my daily chores include the gathering of news for cable and for comments in this column Whether or not that makes me a member of the press I am becoming more and more upset over development in news coverage One such event wm the coverage of the Kirkland Deasley incident Kirk as you may recall was found dead in a room In Toronto Ford Hotel This coverage pointed out with great clarity the lengths to which reporters feature writers and television newsmen will go for a story Csq anyone explain to me why of she family at the graveside necessary Information which i was arrested etc Obviously this is the Job of the news media Following the boys death though the Toronto dailies most notably The Sun and The Star had feature writers working overtime dredging up every minute detail of that young boys life We read and saw via television what a wonderful child young Kirk was How everyone who knew him extolled his many virtues Does this make it any more of a crime If the murderer had picked up a child who no one liked would the same circus atmosphere had prevailed None of the many Items which in those papers and on those newscasts for days after the horrible crime were slight on But they did sell newspapers The Star on one occasion devoted an entire page to the Deasley case with as many as four different writers covering separate Items on the young victim This type of coverage is not necessary It does nothing to aid the parents and might even have a detrimental effect on the eventual fair trial of the man charged with murder The whole thing had carnival atmosphere A Toronto florist may eventually benefit from the press coverage he received by selling a floral wreath worth some to friends of Kirk for less than ISO the amount they had collected from neighbors of the dead boy The lowest point was reached I feel when color film of the graveside end outside the funeral home filled both evening newscasts on the day of the funeral I understand though I cant personally verify it that the same film was repeated on one network the next day Closeups of the bereaved parents filled our television screens and similar graced the pages of the dailies of those even saw fit to us that the mother flung on the coffin Is that news We have all stteoded funerals of ones Everyone knows what tragedy is this ritual of death After reporting the killing the capture and brief court of the suspect and the fact that a funeral was held where is the justification for photographers and tv newsmen dashing all over the cemetery looking for a better angle The parents I feel were the victims too of a crime Jail it invasion of privacy at perhaps the most crucial most personal times of their lives Who will prosecute these criminals It will not be the press council to which The Star and many other newspapers belong Said council was set up to see that accuracy and fair play goes into news reporting There will be no prosecution because such coverage is and has been accepted as good reporting for years And the victims of this in The Star even took it one step further last week In Its voluminous letters to theeditor section The Star ran a letter from an irate reader who menUnedmsny of the same things I have mentioned in this column The reader also went into the possibility that other people might be affected by this type of coverage and be compelled to commit a similar crime Thats an ares which I dont wish to discuss at this time The thing about it wis the picture which filled five or six columns across the top of the page Just above the irate readers letter You guessed It The Dessley family at the graveside watching their young son being lowered into the ground