Around Town By Local Newmarket couple visited Mexico on a holiday trip Prior to returning home the wife was having difficulty trying to decide on her choice of a suitable sou venir Everything looked so beauti ful it was difficult making a selection Finally impressed with the exquisitely tooled feather handbags this woman decided on one of them as her gift of Mexico to herself As they waited in the small shop for sales clerk to parcel thfey chatted hospital which You are from Can ada the Mexican woman ask ed Yes replied our friend a small town near To ronto in the province of Ontario Do you know of Toronto No I dont know that place I know of Newmarket Thats where the Davis Leather factory is We get our leather from them for these purses she said Hospital Plan To Add Building A record was set at York County hospital in the maternity wing during when babies were born there Congestion was felt throughout the hos pital To alleviate the situation the board is planning an additional building to look after the surplus said Kenneth Stiver chairman We are not able to provide the facilities required of us Daylight saving will be ob served in Newmarket for the same period that it is in Toron to from am April to a September On Wednesday two members of the Newmarket Home and School association Mrs Ray and Mrs Nelson Ion attended the annual provincial convention of Home and School associations at the Royal York hotel Toronto At the banquet in the evening at which approxi mately men and women were present the local women were seated at one of the small tables arranged in the banquet Introductions with the neigh boring Home and School people were conducted Across the table from the Newmarket pair Mrs James London a sisterinlaw of Mrs S W- Next to her was a Mrs Hill a personal friend of several of Mrs Ions relatives in thit city Along the line was a Mrs Gardiner Forest Hill village who had been a discussion leader at a re cent Home and School council meeting which the Newmarket group had attended And fi nally the long arm of coinci dence reached to yet another of the dinner party She was Mrs Allen publications con vener of the provincial organiz ation who is a sisterinlaw of Mrs Joel Spillette Who says it isnt a small world During March York County is the only gen eral hospital between Toronto and had a daily average of patients The hospital is listed as a bed institution Miss Lillian Thomas superinten dent of nurses for the hospital said Our statistics show that for March we had a per cent occupancy A hospital is consid ered filled to capacity at about per cent occupancy This lakes into consideration the va cancy of a percentage of beds made necessary by the daily flow of incoming and outgoing pat as well as the periodic vac ancies for renovations In March all the bods in the maternity wing were filled with some patients having to remain in the corridors This is the first time that maternity has been rushed said Miss Thomas scon TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OPPOSED TO HEALTH UNIT At the regular monthly meet ing of Scott township council held at the township hall in the afternoon of Saturday April all members were present Communications were read from the county clerks of York and Ontario advising that the road from to Brock had been taken off the county road systems The coun ty clerk of Ontario asked for the councils opinion regarding a proposal to establish a county health unit The Deportment of Agriculture sent an additional cheque toward com munity hall A resolution stated that health services are being taken care of well enough at the pres ent time and we are therefore Last year the hospital aver aged babies monlhly with June being the peak month when babies were born General admissions to York County hos pital during were At present there is no pedia trics ward Many of the local doctors are hoping that such a department will be included in the planned addition Last summer during the ton sil season one adult ward was converted into a tonsil room Five cots were placed in this ward and little ones throughout the district kept them filled dur ing that time It made it much easier to provide nursing care for the children under this set up and it cut clown the noise which is disturbing to seriously ill adult patients explained Miss Thomas There needs to be an increase in maternity space as well as in surgical and medical comment ed Miss Thomas The board has reached no decisions as yet on the number of rooms to be pro- rooms vided An unofficial es timate set 50 as the number of additional beds required CORONATION PLANS TO BE DECIDED AT MEETING APRIL 10 Preliminary have been held between the Newmar ket councils commit tee and the Correlation commit- of the Canadian Legion to discuss the festivities for Coron ation day Many of the older generations can recall various coronation days back to the time of Edward the Seventh The coronation of this year may be the last that will be observed by of the adults of today Organizations are asked to have a representa tive on hand at the general meeting April 10 pm at the chambers LIONS MINSTRELS FIFTH ANNUAL SHOW The Newmarket Lions clubs annual Minstrel Show will he staged at the Newmarket town hall next week April and This year the show will feature a Hammond organ and piano Instead of an orchestra Over 5000 worth of equipment is represented in the Hammond organ the Lions re port The organist will he Florence Goldsmith and pianist Mrs Featured soloists this year will he Murray Huntley Terry and Charles E Boyd Mr Inter locutor as usual will be Alex Eves and Ann West will be Mr Interrupter The Minstrels men will be Jack Allan Read Dick Billiard and Gene McCaffrey The seating plan for the show is at Bests drug store Rat At 64 Mills et Cutting A tax rate of 64 mills was set by the Newmarket council at a meeting on Monday night Chairman of the finance committee Herbert said that after committees and school boards had cut down their estimates at councils request council had arrived at a mill rate of 63 He asked that council add on an extra mill to cover incidentals and interest on money borrowed for the Main St project which is to start soon explains that the province will o charging more for the hydro Very j mar those increases must of the proposed Expect Raise In Hydro Rates Question Commission Policy Mayor Joseph Vale questioned a matter of hydro commission policy when the town auditor Hector spoke on the fin ancial statement of the corpora tion of Newmarket at a council meeting on Monday night The town like all municipalities Is faced with a possible increase in hydro rates in the near future The local Hydro Commission Tempest Fund unit at this time Reeve Thaxter and Councillors An official was and Luke were appointed a by the Newmarket coun- to look into the on Monday night from the ter surveying village lots at Lord Mayor of London England It acknowledged gratefully the Three tenders had sub- financial donations made by it ted for crushing and laying residents to the Flood and township roads were received and contract was awarded to A Co To- RAISED A total sum of has lieen At a previous meeting of the received by the Newmarket members of council Mr Lions club Easter Soil campaign had been appointed in- for the crippled childrens fund of warble fly spraying The Lions announce that they and Clarence Pickering as the of the spraying machine Reports of township work were presented and it was decided that if the work was not pro gressing speedily enough under the present arrangements addi tional help would be engaged will accept donations fund SCOOT MEETING An important meeting of the Boy Scout Mens committee will tie held on Monday at pm Hie committee asks that all parents and interested citi zens attend when important mat ters will be discussed about the Scout organization FOR The Salvation Army in New market recently held a rummage sale of used clothing collected for the benefit of the overseas flood fund A total of was raised START WARBLE CONTROL Warble fly control is to be started in North township Whitchurch township also decided on a similar control program Tbe North council has authorized the rental of a sprayer and Robert Nicholson and George will be instructed in the spray ing of cattle Chicken Or Egg First Monthly Issue Continues Discussion over a boat rent ing licence at Orchard Beach Lake has become a regu lar monthly feature of the North Gwillimbury township council At the regular meeting at Bel- haven on Monday Messrs Cam eron and Matthews asked coun cil to promise that Charles Orchard Beach would not be given a boat renting licence Members of council indicated that it did not appear that would be issued a licence Joseph Dales Newmarket so licitor for subsequent ly appeared at the meeting and asked council to provide a rea son for not issuing a licence to for the purpose of rent ing boats He told council that had a sizeable invest ment in his business and wanted to protect It Dales said he understood the Department of Lands and For ests would grant a lic ence of occupation if council would grant boat livery licence be passed along and met by the local hydro users said the mayor The increase Is expect ed to he as much as per cent with the provincial hydro adding to local hydro costs annually At one time we used to light the town and show a surplus Now the Hydro commission shows a surplus but the tax pay ers dont benefit An increase in rates is coming Mr Vale said Several councillors pointed out that when the Hydro commission was set up following the war the local equipment and lines were in very poor condition Nut only did much of the existing equipment require replacement but with the growth of the town since the mldlOWs many new cervices have boon added have been used to re place and add new equipment The mayor returning to the annual financial statement ques tioned the transfer of one sum from a previous classification In the town for for hydro Of this sum 27000 was allocated to frequen cy standardization expenses In the statement presented by Mr Hector at Mondays council meeting of this latter amount of had been charged against the operating surplus How can they do that questioned the mayor Im on the commission and I dont recall any resolution regarding this matter Hydro commission surpluses since the commission took over the operation of local hydro from the town approximate By taking the thousand dol lars from those surpluses the commission is reducing the oper ating surplus to approximately thousand reasoned Mr Vale Many questions were raised by council in the discussion which followed The suggestion was made that the local hydro com mission absorb some of the pro vincial increase through these surpluses rather than pass the full increase on to the consumer It was pointed out that only three other municipalities in Ontario have lower hydro rates than Newmarket All the others have raised their rates We had several meetings of the finance committee in an ef fort to cut down estimates said DeputyReeve Gladman We asked public school board to TO START ROAD INTO DEVELOPING MARSH FARM AREA Property owners who are de veloping unused marshland in North and East townships are seeking assurance from the North council of construction of a road in time for the coming vegetable season Mr Joe Gatti and two associ ates told council that they need the road to transport fertilizer to the newly developed areas It was decided that Alvin Rye the township road superintend ent would commence this week on road preparations It was thought that May 15 was the earliest that the road could be completed It would be neces sary to arrange for tenders on gravelling and a hill would have to be removed in the path of the road council said East Gwillimbury council had agreed at its March meeting to cooperate with North in constructing a road to the timber limits west of the Lake Simcoe highway Toronto and York Roads No provid ed that Mr undertook cer tain ditching operations Mrs Mary Kemp has asked council for permission to erect a pump house at the Cooks Bay end of this particular road in order to drain the ditch in front of her property cut 3000 off its estimates They have managed to take off He said that the board had re ported that it have postpone a for CM Favors Purchase Of North Radio Equipment North township council dealt with the matter of a police commission for the three municipalities of Sutton and North Gwillimbury at a meeting in Monday Council sought Councillor James Clarks opinion on what had been decided upon while he had number of its plans for Clark favored the purchase of The county tax levy is down which helped out consid erably Mr said A breakdown of the mill rate is as follows general rates mills public and separate schools mills high school rate excluding schools mills county rate mills mills relief costs 8 mills and library 6 mills This years tax rate repre sents an increase of three mills over Council had found that it would have a tax rate of over mills without cutting any of the estimates from com mittees and boards Flood Relief Fund Contributions Previously reported Newmarket Horticul tural Society Pickering College to date a twoway radio for two new police cars This radio installa tion complete with a tower would cost A ra dium of to miles would be the extent of the broadcast Councillor Clark said There has been a lot of yapping about no police enforcement A man however cannot work 24 hours a day This twoway radio on two police cars would still not give us full police protection but I feel that full protection is not required We have gone this far and we will have to go fur ther This is the start We will soon be forced into a position where we will have to have a proper building to suit the needs of the clerk assessor and police Some wont like it the majority will The twoway radio installa tion has been contracted for and is to be installed not later than May with the controls located in Police Chief William I Hills house MILL REQUESTED BY LIBRARY BOARD CUT TO Among the public bodies which suffered budget cuts in the striking of the mill rate by the Newmarket town council was public library board The library board had submit ted an estimate the equivalent of one mill equal to A list of town grants in the councils budget report for is the library board grant of A member of the library board pointed out this week that the report indicates that the board had requested There must have been a mis take in the report We asked for the library repre sentative said The boards estimate of one mill was intended to cover in creased costs the establishment of an adequate circulating sys tem and anticipated expenditures in connection with the acquisi tion of new quarters for the li brary FIRE Over acres of grassland property burned yesterday in a twohour fire in Whitchurch township The grassland burned is west of the eighth concession of Whitchurch at the Vandorf Fire brigades from Stouffville and Mount Albert fought the fires and fire fighting equipment from the Vivian reforestation was brought in Two tractors were used to plow circ les around the fire area New Personalities And Veterans Of The Stage In Papa Is Alt The stage of the Newmarket Town Hall was a busy spot this week as the members of the Dra matic Club put the finishing touches to their production of Papa is All which will be pre sented on Friday and Saturday evenings April and Lois and Norman Hathaway are decorating the new set con structed by Jack Fisher while neighbor is as effervescent as ever and is an Ideal foil for the calm long suffering character of Mama as played by Alma Steph ens Nick Styke as the brow beaten but ambitious son is play ing a new type of part for him and according to reports is doing very well Members of the club who have witnessed rehearsals are DAIRY FARMERS PLANNING TO USE MORE ADVERTISING A 40000000 June advertising setaside this year is the objec tive of the Dairy Farmers of Canada according to Secretary- Manager Erie Kitchen Toronto This total has never been reach ed by the three previous set- asides The nearest approach to this figure was in when 344000 was realized Mr Kitchen pointed out that based on June milk produc tion this years objective is just under percent of the amount possible and represents an in crease of 23 percent over the setaside of 325000 Discussing the need for a greater set- aside Shugg director of publicity for the Dairy Farmers of Canada said that new abnormal conditions influencing the dairy industrys course at the present time made it imperative that both product advertising and public relations programs be expanded to meet the new situation There must be a greater fre quency of impact on the public and even a fund would be strained to do the job daisy producers require All dairy producer organizations must lend their support if the new objec tive to Be Mr said stage manager Ken Learning bout this latest effort now I Papa is All is being directed by Mike whose sue- COMING EVENTS periments with the new lighting system which will be used for the first time for this show The cast of the play is com bination of new and familiar fac es The newcomers to the stage are Bill Elliott who plays the part of the tyrannical father Diana as the lovestarv ed but determined daughter and Bill Robinson as a stalwart State Trooper Grace as the gossipy but that council was waiting for the department to issue its lic ence first Which comes first the chicken or the egg asked Mr Dales Magistrate Hollin- rake asked a similar question during a court case over the same issue last fall Dales maintains that the coun cil has no power to legislate a man out of business but it has the power to control and super vise the manner in which he deals with the public A bylaw creating Or chard Beach as a residential area prohibits new business from moving into the area and the by law is being used as a reason for not granting the boat renting licence Mr Dales points out that was in business before before the residential bylaw was passed You cant pass a by law and put a man out of busi ness when he has already been established and has already made an investment be said HOLLAND LANDING ORGANIZES NEW GUIDE COMPANY A group of Guides members of the 1st Newmarket Girl Guide company visited the newly or ganized Holland Landing com pany on Wednesday night April The visitors provided the program which consisted of a demonstration of a regular Guide meeting In the sample of Guide work was Included an opening cere mony inspection semaphore and knots games and a The Holland Landing Guides joined in the program which ended with Taps A return visit will be made by the Holland Landing com pany to the Newmarket group when the latter holds an enrol ment and parents night on Wednesday April FRIDAY APRIL Good Neighbor Community club Is holding a dance at Vivian school Lucky draw Spot dance Can teen service Members Nnn- Doors open at SATURDAY St Johns bingo postponed as usual Saturday April Jackpot FRIDAY SATURDAY APRIL Newmarket Dramatic club presents threeact comedy Is AH at the town hall auditorium Newmarket reser vations at McCaffreys Flower shop SATURDAY APRIL Dance at Bond Head Memorial hall sponsored by Anglican Young Peoples Society Modern and and old tyme dancing featuring the Top Hatters TUESDAY APR In stitute Is holding euchre in Sharon hall pm Everyone welcome Good prizes SPECIAL notice to Good neigh- club members General meetings have been changed to third Monday of month Next meeting Is April TUESDAY APR 11 The Red Cross will quilt and sew at Trin ity United church from to pm Lunch TUES WED THURS AND APR IB Tickets now on sale for the Linns club Minstrel Show Rests Drug Newmarket WEDNESDAY APRIL bingo Legion Hall Newmar ket at pm games Jackpot 25 door prize WEDNESDAY APRIL tea bake sale under auspices of York County hospi tal Womens auxiliary Fire mens auditorium to pm Admission WEDNESDAY APR party sponsored by Young Union In Sharon hall Proceeds for special mis filon project AtlmlsHlon APRIL 18Rexnll Spring one cent Sale at The Beat Dm Store Main New- market THURSDAY APR In production two years ago of Dirty Work at the Crossroads is still remembered According lo the director this play is dif ferent but just as entertaining as Work Tickets for the show are avail able from club members or at McCaffreys Flower Shop Res ervations may be made at Mc Caffreys TRINITY The Easter meeting of the combined Mis sionary societies of Trinity United church Newmarket will be held Tuesday evening April oclock We are pleased to welcome back to Newmarket Mrs J Simpson former high school teacher Guest soloist will be Mrs Stephens and our wor ship service will be led by Mrs A S Arnold A cordial welcome awaits all ladies at this service Aurora hall by the Aurora Laities Auxiliary flood prizes games Time pm FRIDAY APR Mothers auxiliary ticket blitz for May concert featuring Goodman Elizabeth Beer Terry calls by Newmarket cubs scouts guides and brownies Proceeds for ren ovation of Hall tickets cents FRIDAY APRIL Euchre party in Pine Orchard School pm Community club prizes and lunch Admis sion SATURDAY APR York North Womens Progressive Conservative Assn annual meet ing in the auditorium of the Newmarket Fire hall at pm Tea served WEDNESDAY APR Georg ian Bay Islanders CKBB radio stars first appearance at Kes wick Memorial arena under aus pices of Keswick Optimist club Modern and old dancing from pm FRIDAY APR Fashion show by the Home Economies classes of the Newmarket High School in the auditorium Time pm WED and SAT FRIDAY APRIL Euchre in the Oddfellows Hall Aurora Draw to be made for the Cancer Polio Fund Time Admission SATURDAY APRIL 25 Used clothing white elephant sale In St Pauls Parish hall New market commencing at am Used clothing may he left Studio TUESDAY APR Little orchestra con cert pm Aurora Dis trict High School Assisted by the four male quartet Silver collection WEDNESDAY APRIL St James Sharon are hold ing a cold meat supper court esy Schneiders in Sharon Hall from oclock on DANCING at Mount Albert every Saturday night from to to Norm Bulling and his CITIZENS EXPERT SAYS Need Closer Touch With Council The electorate should keep in close touch with the town coun cil during the year and the ex pression of the public interest can be provided by a group swell as ratepayers association Mr Erie Hardy told members of ratepayers assoc iation last week An organizational meeting was held In the fire hall auditor ium last week for the ratepay ers association Mr Hardy director of the Citizens Research Institute was guest speaker at the meeting Another meeting Is to he held shortly In elections the greatest her of votes is cast during a fed eral election In a municipality but in a municipal election the lowest number Is cast Mr Hardy said It Is not entirely because there is a smaller num ber of people entitled to vote in municipal elections It Is that people are not sufficiently Inter ested in the job their local gov ernment must do The Job of town government Is a management undertaking with a of physical ser vices which must be administer ed such as school buildings parks water systems sewage disposal systems and public util ities as well as administration of town finances To do this efficiently It not members of council should consider them selves experts or laymen trying to become exports he said The experts arc the people the town pays the town clerk or town engineer But since council di rects the course which Is to be followed in relation to the amount of takes levied on the people the selection of elected representatives is extremely Im portant It is desirable that the elector ate keep In close touch with ell during the year and that ex pression of interest can he given by groups such ratepayers associations One Individual is not heard but council must listen a group Mr Hardy said Mr Hardy showed that he was familiar with recent municipal happenings in Newmarket and pointed out that unless a great er Interest ia shown In nomina tions for public in the town and the best type of people put forward for election a healthy election will never take place It is most unhealthy when nominations Just fill the vacancies and there is no com petition He said that the im portant Item function of a good council is not so much In saving dollars for a tax bill but by ensuring a better rate for every dollar which is spent in the towns administration In many localities Interest in local government is shown by service clubs and church groups but with these groups the inter est Is a sideline rather than an objective A community organ ization which wants to learn mora about local government and to make a contribution to local government In the town will not only increase the Inter est in civic affairs but will lm prove the quality of which the local government 1 rendering to the community Mr Hardy said that in the formation of a community group thought should be given to the inclusion of property owners tenant of real proper ty as welt as other residents in the community He felt that by making to a larger of IS it would broaden interest and encourage more healthy participation in municipal turns He pointed out that every adult contributes in some pro portion to the monies adminis tered by the town council A large proportion of all previa- taxes is spent by municipal governments end even money collected from the park meters which goes to the police committee adds to the towns funds indirectly Every resident who drops penny in a parking meter is entitled to have an interest in the operation of the towns business He suggested that a ratepay ers association should have an educational plan and suggested that under a yearly program members could be provided an opportunity to bear the- elected representatives on the work which they are doing as well as from the paid employees of the town on the function of their jobs In this way it gives the people a better measuring stick for Jydging the suitability of a candidate for public office He suggested that the group take constructive interest In the year ly budget and that it ask the council for its five year program of expenditure Hardy pointed out that al though a community association could be of untold value in as sisting council the final decision rested with council It would not necessarily follow that coun cil would always act la a way with which atsoetatkm agreed However with cooperation possible between council and the and the batter It turn I lnlUI I