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THE ERA I Aurora Wed JuneH B Section Bob Lewis nominated for second try at unseating Bill Hodgson ROBERT LEWIS Bob Lewis of Stouflville wu chosen Monday night to lead the New Democratic Party in what one member of provincial parliament predicted will be a neck and neck race for the York North seat In the Ontario parliament For the first time in over 30 years anyone could win Donald MacDonald MPP for York South told the people attending the NDP nominating convention at the Nobleton Community Hall In a vote Mr Lewis who brought the party from third to second place in the 1971 provincial election defeated Wally a candidate In the last two federal elections Mr predicted the election would be held either Oct 16 or 23 A Canadian Pacts poll commissioned by the NDP recently indicated Liberal support at 37 per cent at 32 MacDonald said He said however that Liberals traditionally have about 10 to IS per cent more support in polls than In provincial elections because mayor of King Township who was expected to be nominated last night to represent the Liberals He will also face incumbent Bill Hodgson of King Township who according to Mr Lewis is ship is sinking its every for himself The problems of regional government will be much of their polling support Is local campaign issue Mr Lewis I will have a formidable opponent in the Liberal can didate this being womens year Mr Lewis quipped referring to Margaret Britnell said There has to be a provincial plan before regional government can proceed fur ther he said The Is also counting on support of local farmers traditionally oriented toward Conservatism There are a lot of farmers in York Region and a lot of Tories Mr MacDonald said There is a desperate fear theyll die before theyll change their vote he said but If they dont change they may die before they know it support has increased from two to five times in rural areas Mr MacDonald said Farmers are becoming disillusioned with the Con servatives and particularly with Premier William Davis he claimed The farmer who 20 years ago received per cent of the said and in the last five to seven years farmers have been leaving the profession in droves similar to the one in British Columbia to rescue agriculture from the boombust cycles that have bedeviled it throughout history Mr MacDonald said Although the Tories promised such a plan in the throne speech they are welching the MPP charged Such a plan would cost the province about million about the same amount the government granted to industry by eliminating the sales tax he estimated Mr Lewis a former Whitchurch Stouffville coun cillor and past president of the and problems caused by the proposed Pickering airport He said he will avoid general provincial issues and will survey York North con stituents to find out what the people want In the upcoming election the NDP has a real chance of winning Ontario Mr Guatar said house of cards he said OHC wants to build 200 units downtown buy four acres of land Holland River near the north aide of Timothy St on which to build 200 senior citizens apartments Monday town council reed to support a reaming of the site if OHC buys it to allocate sewage treatment capacity In the municipal plant for the building and not to make the government housing agency pay lot levy fees If it goes ahead the senior citizen project would develop as part of a larger scheme being proposed by Holland River Investments Ltd lor the flats between Timothy and Queen streets However councils of the OHC plan Monday is merely approval of the project for the downtown and not approval for the specific site said Regional Councillor Ray Twinney who was acting mayor Monday night Mr Twinney said OHC had originally proposed one apartment building himself to build the units two stages He said there are already 100 names on a waiting list for senior citizen apartments In Newmarket OHC agreed to buy the four acres providing its plans are approved by the ministries of environment and natural resources and by other agencies The switch to the fouracre plan means Holland River In vestments will have to drop one of its proposed apartment buildings from its scheme in order to sell the land to Are we endorsing the Taxes still lower than 71 peak Twinney satisfactory building he said pointing out it is floodprone land Mr told council the Ontario Housing ministry has approved the site for senior citizens apartments as long as no apartments are located at ground level However he said this OK anything with forego lot levy fees in return for a downtown location for the senior citizen apartments Most municipalities donate land as well he said but we have none to give Council approved the en of the OHC plan but made its approval subject to approvals from the Ontario NEWMARKET Although property tax bills are up this year In Newmarket they havent reached the 1971 peak of the towns budget chairman Ray Twinney pointed out Monday He compared taxes on a house assessed at to the Town bus fares to go Up Aug 1 NEWMARKET Town bus fares will go up August 1 Adult fares will go from 25 children from 10 to 15 cents Senior citizens and the retarded will pay cents instead of 10 and the family fare one adults one child goes from cents to Councillor Doris Blair ex plained the fare increase Fight for the same property will pay this year A reduction of in I spite of an increase in the cost of nidlM COUTT living since 1971 of to continue ELEMENTARY TEACHERS Win 30 pay hike in anticipation of a new contract which will soon be negotiated with the bus operator Travelways Ltd She predicted Travelways will be seeking a higher subsidy from the municipality and pointed out the new contract will be retroactive to last Jan HE The Ontario government paid about 34000 leaving Newmarket to pay out of its own coffers Mrs Blair said the new rates are in line with those charged on other municipal bus proximately 35 per cent He said increasing costs in these years were absorbed by new assessment and higher provincial grants Mr Twinney brought in a holdtheline municipal budget in late May which lowered taxes on most town properties about half a mill The merged areas of East Gwillimbury King and Whitchurch showed a slight increase but still remain below the former town of Newmarket due to transitional grants and surplus adjustments Newmarkets overall tax rate Is up substantially this year far exceeded the assessment and we were no longer able to absorb the in crease in these levies He made the statement as he summarized the total budget for council Mr Twinney said town council only controls 32 per cent of its budget while school levies account for per cent and the region for 15 per cent Frankly in my opinion the education levy should be funded entirely by the province as a tax reform measure and taken off property taxes he said The tax rates mean a public school supporter with an average 20000 assessed home will pay and a separate school supporter 62152 increases of and respectively says Twinney NEWMARKET Ontario Attorney General John Clement says his ministry cant afford night traffic courts for York Region In a letter to Newmarket council the minister said he is faced with serious personnel and budget restraints which preclude expansion of the night court program outside the Metro Toronto area A Newmarket resolution requesting night courts for the region recently won en dorsements from Richmond Hill Whitchurch Stouffville Georglna King and York Regional councils Regional Councillor Ray Twinney told town council Monday York Regional council CIRCUS SEAL Upper Canada Malls main lobby became a circus in miniature last week when it was Invaded by Andre Van three seals and a St Bernard dog The seals which attracted large crowds have performed with Bros and Bailey circus Above Kerr cant find sewage running into Holland R Holland River from the sources named by Councillor Tom Taylor a report to town council Monday from Associate Dr Ian Kerr indicated Mr Taylor told a recreation committee meeting in late May that raw sewage js entering the river at two locations and he asked for an investigation He did not name the sources Dr Kerrs report revealed Mr Taylor had been referring to pipes into the river from the Dairy property on Davis Dr and to the St An drews Shell Station Dr Kerr said the Glenville pipes carried rain water and cooler water not sewage and accompany them As a result of Mr Taylors request the Ontario En vironment ministry has also been asked to check the Holland River tor pollution will receive salary increases in the 30 per cent range next year according to a new contract ratified Monday by the teachers the first time since 1969 that both the elementary and secondary contracts were settled before the end of June Elementary teachers with The agreement also includes a clostofliving allowance The lowest paid elementary teacher will start at per year up from At the other end of the scale the highestpaid teacher will get up from The teachers federation ratified the new agreement at a mass meeting Monday af ternoon The school board spent nearly minutes in closed session late Monday night before giving the contract its blessing As in the case of the secondary settlement some trustees are worried that the elementarycontract will push the board above the provincial spending ceilings in 1976 Again board chief negotiator Criag said it is impossible to forecast what the ceiling figures will be next year I felt that with the way settlements have been going around the province we have come in under some of the other settlements the Newmarket trustee said Monday night I think it was a fair deal for the teachers and the best possible deal for the taxpayers without disrupting the system of education He said the atmosphere of the elementary negotiations was peaceful and cooperative It took two months almost to the day to complete the elementary negotiations Tentative agreement was reached last Wednesday As in the secondary negotiations bargaining was carried out without the presence sessions The elementary teachers are paid in seven categories with the top four parallel to the four secondary categories Nearly 70 per cent of Yorks elementary teachers are In the lower three categories Their pay raises will average per cent Teachers in the lowest elementary category Category will get an average increase of 316 per cent with a ranee from to 11100 The present range for that category is to 8740 This category covers 205 teachers Category teachers will receive an average raise of 31 per cent The range will be to 13800 up from to There are 352 teachers In this category Category B teachers will get an average raise of 292 per cent The new range 9500 to 16000 The present range to This category covers 215 teachers Category teachers will be paid salaries ranging from to The present range to There are 192 teachers in this category CategoryA2 teachers salary range will be to 19605 The present range 8400 to 15450 The category covers teachers Category A3 Thenew range will be 12441 to The present range to The category covers teachers Category Thenew range will be to 22764 The present range 9850 to Fourteen teachers are in this category Principals will get between and depending on experience and enrolment in their school The present Maxwell Art Holden Dave Duchesne and Ted Smith The other trustees on the board team were Bill Laird Joy of education director Sam Horton and Dorothy Zajac First French school to be in Newmarket be established here tember York Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board officials confirmed establish ment of the school which initially will be limited to kin dergarten and junior kin dergarten students following spearheaded the r While the group led by Marie Josie of Newmarket had hoped to recruit enough students for a kindergarten to Grade program trustees were told during a Richmond Hill meeting last week that the possibility of meeting a minimum enrolment Gas price hike jams service stations NEWMARKET federal governments almost immediate cent hike in gas prices created some near traffic jams here late Monday night but the excitement died on the stroke of midnight At Newmarket Plaza Shell and Car Wash on Davis Dr the crush began at 8 p m and in the prices motorists were served But minutes past the midnight deadline drivers apparently believing theyd missed the chance to fill up at An Era reporter caught in premidnight confusion back to the pumps at Night attendant Larry said Shell had not of ficially notified owner of the station and the operator official deadline and the in troduction of the new prices some motorists were deter mined they wouldnt be caught I had one guy in here that had six gasoline containers explained Mr Ramm Volume of the latenight business also created a problem for the attendant working only his second stint on the latenight selfserve shift would be no difficulty in meeting the 15 student minimum for the kindergarten and junior kin dergarten class The class will operate week day afternoons at St Johns Separate School Registration will continue until school closing and resume the last week of August One prerequisite of the program is that at least one parent of the student speak French Mr told The Era Thursday The parents must also be separate school supporters or willing to pay a fee in lieu of separate school taxation The school isnt for English kids learning to speak French exposed to the French language Mr told a board meeting in Richmond Hill last Trustees were told the decision to launch the French school represents a com mitment to carry the program through later grades in sub sequent years Trustee John Taylor predicted the school will gain figures There is a possibility of commit themselves until they see what the board does Mr agreed that support for the school will in crease as the program develops Theres a good grouping Although the board has not initial start up grant of is expected to cover the coats of the program until the 1976 fiscal Fruit vegetables come into the Farmers Market NEWMARKET Fresh fruit from the Niagara garden belt and an increasing supply of Holland Marth vegetables are coming lata the Saturday morning Newmarket Farmers Market reports