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of the times or just of the spring Winters frosts were unusually hard on town roads this year but someone who ap parently uses Mnlock west of Yonge St regularly must feel town maintenance workers have been a little slow In patching up potholes These signs appeared on trees and posts along that stretch of road last week VOL NO IB PAGES walkers raise 10700 Sunny Saturday- brought out over to strut their stuff in the NewmarketAurora Lions annual 13mile They raised over for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children Above home at last Brent Warren of Aurora stretches out See page Lions Music Festival is on Newmarket Lions annual music festival competitions were held last week and continue this week For results see page B5 and for a photo story page Cl Bell operators worktorule Finding time on your hands when you make a longdistance telephone call lately Thats because Bell Canada operators in this area are working to rule For the reason why see page A5 Coop nurseries open their doors Two cooperative nursery schools are operating in Newmarket this year and both will soon be registering new students See page High school sports wind up High school sports are winding up for the school year This week its boys hockey and girls gym nastics- See page BI DIRECTORY Billboard Editorials Mary Classified pages C29 IT HAPPENED IN YORK NEWMARKET Provincial housing minister John Rhodes mixed up his Margarets here during a mini cabinet meeting last Wednesday but managed to turn the faux pas Into a backhanded stab at the Liberal government in Ottawa Going down the head table Mr Rhodes in troduced Revenue Minister Margaret Scrlvner as Margaret Birch much to the comic delight of the gathering Dont laugh I could nave called her Margaret Trudeau Mr Rhodes said Straight faced before another hail of laughter Mr Rhodes quipped What makes you think she Isnt here Since I ONTARIO MAY NEWMARKET 8953331 CENTS mm Charleys Aunt reputedly one of the most successful comedy plays written in this century opens in the old town hall auditorium Market Square Friday night The Newmarket Theatre Centre production will run until May In the photo above are the main characters as they will appear in the play front row from left Chris Schl lie more as Kitty Dave as Lord and Gerry Sinclair as Amy Back row Al Cox as Jack Ray Burdon as the butler and Tony Marshall as Charles Coate photo- Clinic for PROMOTED YCH allowed coaches May 8 NEWMARKET i A national coaching development clinic will be held for eight consecutive weeks beginning May at the Newmarket Community Centre The program is being sponsored jointly by the Newmarket Recreation Department and the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation Sports and Fitness division The program under the leadership of Don Stevens is not aimed at any particular sport but at improving knowledge and coaching skills at level one in all sports Sessions will be held every Sunday from to pm Cost of the course is per person Registrations are now being taken at the recreation office 171 Main St Registration is limited to participants on a firstcome firstserved basis Therefore those interested should contact the recreation department as soon as possible For further information call commissioner Dan Shannon at NEWMARKET Huron Heights Secondary School principal Bill McVlcar has been named superintendent of schools for York Region public school boards Area 2 Ratified by the board during an session last week the appointment takes effect Aug In his new position Mr will be responsible for schools in Aurora King Township and WhltchurchStouffville The position became vacant as the result of a series of shuffles promotions and retirements within the boards senior staff Credited with rebuilding the image of Huron Heights Mr Mc Vlcar was the unanimous choice of the search committee formed to fill the post according to board sources The committee interviewed about half a dozen applicants some from within the York Region public school system some from other school Jurisdictions and finalized its decision about a week before the board ratified the move during the April 25 session During half a decade at Huron Heights Mr helped the schools academic image return to a par with Newmarket High School A replacement for Mr McVlcar la expected to be named within a month 36 more beds NEWMARKET York County Hospital Monday ob tained authority to open 20 chronic and acute care beds to relieve its tight bed situation In return the hospital is obliged to accept chronic care patients from Stouffvilles Brier Bush Hospital which will close Following a meeting with provincial health minister Dennis Timbrell and Bill Hodgson and Bill Newman executive director said York County Hospital has been promised further financial consideration in next years budget The addition means of the hospitals potential are now in use Sutton facing 25 water bill hike NEWMARKET A 25 per cent increase in Suttons water rates due to York Regions refurbishing of the towns pumping station can only be It cannot be spread over two years Georgina Township Mayor George Burrows was told Thursday An additional has been added to the 1977 water works estimates partly for a facelift to the interior and ex terior of the Dalton Rd Stand- pipe and partly to the increased capacity of the station York engineer Bob Hodgson told council the region had spent to change the pumps in the station lifting capacity from 4 million gallons to 1 million gallons Mr Hodgson said his department had done the work for the cost of a planned study of the Sutton works Newmarket councillor Ray Twinney said he felt a delegation from had already been satisfied as to the need for the upgrading of the system Mayor Burrows said he feared hitting taxpayers in Sutton with a 25 per cent in crease would be too much and predicted that if such an in- crease is allowed Mr Hodgson would be hung at dawn if he ventured into the town on hot seat at minicabinet NEWMARKET If it hadnt been for McKeough many of the questions posed at last weeks York North Progressive Con servative Association mini- cabinet meeting wouldnt have been answered Fifteen ministers were present but Environment Minister George Kerr wasnt there to answer questions about pollution in Lake Simcoe Education Minister Tom Wells was missing when it came to queries on private education funding and Health Minister Dennis didnt make it for the queries on the financial status of York County Hospital So the crowd of ap proximately turned its at tention to Treasurer McKeough on everything from land taxation to deficit budgeting The government also took the opportunity to unveil a model of the proposed York County Court House which will be situated at the corner of and Eagle streets in Newmarket south of York Manor Government services Minister John Smith said ten ders for the new building will be called for in June and awarded in September He predicted the new building would be completed by Decemucr of at a cost of million Mr Smith added the new court house will be energy ef ficient using solar collection panels a heat reclamation system and a heat storage tank Members of the audience attempted to pin down an issue for the coming election which was called by Premier William Davis the next day Thursday but Housing Minister John Rhodes who chaired the meeting would only say that the Conservatives need a majority in the house for a continuation of good government Majority government seemed to be the theme of the evening as McKeough told a questioner that a majority situation would benefit property taxation The questioner reminded Mr McKeough he had promised homeowners in York Region five years ago that the government was seeking a way to lower the see page A2 i Quiet campaign NDP Li hopefuls By BOB MARTIN Era News Editor NEWMARKET The quiet campaign has ended With Thursdays announcement by Premier William Davis that York North voters will be joining the provincewide trek to the polls June 9 the two challengers hoping to unseat veteran incumbent Progressive Conservative MPP Bill Hodgson are ready to launch their campaigns in earnest Not that Liberal hopeful Jim Wilson and New Democratic Party standardbearer Ian Scott have been in hiding its just that theyll both take on a new public profile during the next five weeks Librarian at Huron Heights Secondary School here Mr Scott has subtly maintained that profile since winning the NDP nomination almost a year ago Hes conducted a letters to the editor campaign on various local and provincial issues Now that the election has been called both he and Mr Wilson a Newmarketbased pharmaceutical salesman can air their views during public election debates Prior to Thursdays action at Queens Park both men were busy laying he groundwork for a campaign that has now been in progress almost a week Mr Wilson who was uncontested for the Feb 23 nomination coordinated his efforts with the Liberal riding association dividing York North into campaign divisions Campaign finance and office chairmen have already been selected and signs are prepared Im ready to go Mr Wilson declared Saturday What Ive done is left the nuts and bolts to the organizers If they tell me to be somewhere Til be there Its a far cry from the municipal election campaign when Mr Wilson ran unsuccessfully for the Newmarket seat on the York Region separate school board In that campaign he personally directed all operations While he was defeated by incumbent Kathleen Taylor the campaign gave him experience that Mr Wilson said will benefit him during the provincial outing But there are also some differences While he could manage his entire municipal campaign its a different story during the coming five weeks If a person tried to be a candidate a campaign chairman and a financial chairman he just couldnt do it he explained In the early part of the year since his nomination Mr Scott has concentrated on signing up new members for the provincial NDP riding association and renewing old mem berships The effort he explained Friday gave him a chance to meet party supporters and gave party members an op portunity to know and understand him In addition to his letterwriting campaign Mr Scott has maintained public contact with cable television shows in Aurora and Newmarket and by attending last weeks mini- cabinet session in Newmarket Hes also been on hand for meetings over several con troversial development proposals in Vaughan in the southern corner of the riding Although the June election date hadnt been confirmed during his Era interview Friday Mr Scott said Thats what our preparations are heading towards Ive felt for the last two or three weeks that was the date Like Mr Wilson the NDP candidate has his campaign finance sign and area chairman selected One leaflet is at the printers while the material for election signs is ready Were reasonably well prepared explained Mr Scott While the has had its candidate active in the quiet campaign for almost a year Mr Wilson entered the race after King Township Mayor Margaret Britnell opted out of the provincial race in favor of local politics Mrs Britnell still attended the Wilson nomination session after she declared herself out of the race however Her loss as a candidate isnt expected to be a major blow Mr Wilson stressed Its a combination of the old and new he explained Ive got a new organization Im not relying on her resour ces His respect for the King mayor is evident however when he noted that had she wanted the nomination he would not have opposed her President of the riding association when Mrs vacated the nomination Mr Wilson denied he ran merely because there was no one to fill the post I ran because I wanted to run he emphasized Both Mr Scott and Mr Wilson see issues in the York North campaign closely paralleling provincial issues When youre running for the provincial government you do tend to follow the party line explained Mr Wilson Some of the local issues involve provincial see QUIET page nomination Resources Transportation Committee on the Legislature Regulations Committee and as chairman of the Advisory Committee Mr Hodgson sees few major local issues surfacing during the upcoming cam paign Most of the major issues of past campaigns have been resolved he says pointing out that construction of Highway is underway York County Hospital has its new wing contracts for the York courthouse and registry office will be let this summer a new Childrens Aid Society building has been con structed and the highway program is pretty well up to date in this riding NEWMARKET In cumbent MPP Bill Hodgson will seek renomination in York North riding May at a meeting called for Aurora Highlands golf club He is expected to be unopposed for the Progressive Conservative nomination for his fourth term in the Legislature Guest speaker at the pm meeting will be Larry Grossman parliamentary assistant to AttorneyGeneral Roy McMuxtry During the past term Mr Hodgson has served on the Legislatures Small Businessmans Committee on the Select Committee for Company Law on the Nor thern Ontario Natural i i I