Editors Notebook Our busy Tuesday afternoon was delightfully interrupted by a visitor whose name James was familiar to us and whose voice was even more familiar When he told Us that his work was in connection with radio and television we immediately identified him as James who duces the Wednesday Night broadcasts There was a time when we enjoyed whole evenings on Wednesdays listening to the tGJC programs and when we enjoyed particularly listening to James talks Since last October when we took the job of publishing this newspaper Wednesday Night has become Era and Ex press Wednesday Night just another night like Sunday Monday Tuesday Thursday and often Friday Thursday deadlines deny us the preced ing evening at home by the radio But the important thing is that tonight James is giving a talk which will be recorded for a overseas broadcast to the United King dom The subject of his talk deals with Newmarket Canada and our plans for Coronation celebrations Unfortunately it will not be broadcast in Can ada but will be beamed over seas On Tuesday we helped him gather some information about the plans and the people who are working on the Coronation committee We introduced him to Mr Wesley chairman of the Legion which sparked local enthusiasm for Newmar kets celebration- Mr was tempor arily sidetracked his intense interest in the identical twins hairdressers Wes and Paul He had heard that in the case of identical twins Die whorl of hair at the back of the head where the male bald spot begins at has an odd feature In one twin he had heard the hair whorls grow in a coun terclockwise manner and in the other clockwise Mr no longer believes that i one whorl necessarily goes one way on one twin and the other whorl the other way on the other twin The have no whorls at all he said We liked his interest in the whorls and discovered that it was not merely by chance that he would examine the Tobey heads He is a man who must satisfy himself with the facts he is not one to be content with other peoples statements and to generalize on them In his broadcast to the UK Mr wants to tell Britons what people in a Can adian town are doing at Coron- time He chose because he has visited the PAGE TWO town often and likes it There is no average town he told us What you are do ing in Newmarket may be far different from what they are doing about the Coronation in say Saskatche wan Newmarket is a wonderful place he said and he went on to say that he and his wife often motor here from the city to drive up and down the streets and look at the inter esting houses He likes the countryside particularly the beautiful hills in nearby King township He strongly disagrees with a friend in Montreal who de scribes the quaint little towns in Quebec and who declares that Ontario has soul AH he needs to do is take a drive through the Ontario countryside and look for these interesting places he Unfortunately we will not hear the broadcast as Britons will But we were pleased to hear that Newmarket is to be the subject of his talk We en joyed listening to an outsiders refreshing descriptions of our town Mr is an unpretentious person with whom one can relax and in dulge in some stimulating con versation no matter how lim ited the time may be Our advertising manager New Canadian Ronald ley plans to cable his parents in Northampton England ad vising them to listen in on the broadcast The Newmarfct Era Aurora and the rural districts of North the 83 Published every Thursday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmatket fro and tor one year in Single copfe ore each Member of Class A of Cttmdlm Width We Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Unit W JOHN I Managing tdltar CAROUNE ION Woman Sport IAWR1NCC RACINE Sob Printing and THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY THREE From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago MAY Mr and Mrs It Smith Mr and Mrs George and Mr and Mrs- Jo attend ed the annual Safety First convention at Hamilton on Wednesday The convention was most largely attended over delegates being pres ses They report a time Miss Bertha of Lind say is spending a few days with Mrs- Manning Last Sunday Mr and Mrs Walter of were also guests of Mr and Mrs Man ning Besides the crocuses hya cinths and daffodils us well as the wild flowers Mr Fleming Young picked full blown in his garden on Monday He also had rhubarb pie out of his own garden for dinner Mr Mrs Harvey Terry Master attended the sixth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Gordon Os borne at on Saturday Miss Vers of Toron to spent the weekend with Mis Clara has ac cepted a position at Dome Mines South Porcupine and left home last week Mr and Mrs Levis mo tored to Whitby and on Monday with others and called on old friends MAY Mr a brother-in- law of Mr Cyrus has rented Newmarket Cheese Fac tory and will run the business this year on his own account He is now engaged cleaning up and making necessary changes and it is expected that the fac tory will be running again in a couple of weeks Mr A W Evans has decided to put another storey on the Royal hotel The lumber is all on hand and the work will be puttied along just as soon as the brick arrives One carpen ter and a couple of masons commenced work on Tuesday morning to get things ready Mr Hunter of one of the firm of Hunter Bros Newmarket was in town on Wednesday His sister Mrs- of Detroit and his mo ther from are spending a few days with Mr W Hun ter Prospect Ave Mr Allen Leslie Howard A a recent graduate of Knox College and a former student of Newmarket high school spent a day with his aunt Mrs of St Mr Howard has been called to Ca yuga Mrs Hughes received several beautiful souvenirs a few days ago in recognition of her silver wedding UNIT PROMOTION Unit promotion or the child progress plan la being discussed by principals and their staffs members of school hoards and Home ami School members through out the county The system is being used successfully in such cities as Cleveland and Hamilton Although these terms unit promotion and child are new they are a return to the method of promo Urn that existed prior to the era of mass educa tion When each student studied with his private tutor promotions were based on the individual When the pupil was ready for more advanced study he ajI as pro- y is J I I Education not the privilege of but the right of everyone In attempting to educate in numbers the variations between individuals were over looked ho that some orderly system of promotion could be obtained Annual examinations became the deter mining factor so Hint promotions wore regulated not by the individual pupils readiness for advancement but by the calendar June arrives and that is the time to grade the school children For the average child who doesnt exist except in statistics has become the ideal time for promotion For the slow learner who hasnt fin ished his years work promotion at that time places him under a handicap to begin another level of work The bright child who perhaps lias completed the years work a month or more before the end of school has had- to mark time INCREASING PROBLEMS The parking problem in Newmarket is being accen tuated by the start on the Main St construction project Merchants are feeling a bit uneasy when they look at the days sales and if sales are down they are quick to blame the confusion caused by the traffic tieups Parking is at a premium with more vehicles forced off the Main St filling up the parking lots Side streets are cleared by emergency no parking signs to deflect the flow of traffic from the Main St area Recently Chief Constable Byron Burbidge suggested that Main St meters be placed in the municipal parking lots and a charge of one cent an hour instead of five cents be put on the motels Council the recommendation to favor maintaining the five cent rate On Monday night Councillor pointed out that Newmarket advertises the fact that it offers free muni cipal parking Signs on Eagle St beckon the traveller into the parking lots and now he points out he will find that he must pay Council had asked the Chamber of Commerce for an opinion and the Chamber reported back that council should forget about the meters and provide a twohour limit in parking lots with no charge but strictly enforc ed Council ignored this suggestion Now the Chamber is to hold a meeting of its full membership and have a hearttoheart talk with the chief of police about park- Main St project is making people think about the parking problem more than ever before It is easily seen that it is one of the towns major problems With its narrow streets and its crowded business section there is simply not enough room in Newmarket No matter what the policy is for townowned parking lota it will not please everyone merchants office Workers factory workers and shoppers But there is one small statement in the Ontario Municipal Act which says that where public funds are used to improve municipal parking lots the municipality must obtain revenue from them If any person wants to be technical the free parking lots in Newmarket are illegal Besides this to be fair to all the taxpayers who paid for the three parking lots and are paying for their upkeep they should be metered Otherwise special groups such as the shoppers or the factory workers who park most of the day will be receiving the benefits provided by taxpayers who do not use the Jots It is therefore reasonable to say that the parking lots should be paying for themselves Some other group with specialized interests such as the Chamber of Com merce may find and acquire parking areas and operate them to the benefit of the merchants but the taxpayers in general should not be subsidizing facilities for the benefit of a few to more complicated study Under the unit promotion plan promotion may be made when the child is ready The school grades as they are now would be grouped into units with grades one to three forming primary four to six being the junior and seven and eight the senior divisions The advantages of the system are obvious With the slow learner progressing at his own speed he would not suffer the emotional scars of frustration and failure Neither would he be pushed ahead before he was ready nor would he fail a year and drop behind his age level The bright child would have his abilities challenged and his potentialities for leadership encouraged under the unit promotion plan He would not be compelled to remain in a grade after he was ready for promotion or face the possibility of being promoted to an older age level through the skipping of a grade As was stated in the report of the Royal Commission on Education in Ontario Such an organization will make possible provision for individual differences and varying rales of attainment so woefully lacking in a system of rigid grading and annual promotions It will at the same time enable all children to master the minimum core required and afford an enriched pro gram for the average and the aboveaverage children The latter will still retain membership in their AH Of Cor- or Mh ever to ply fit ih oiwlon tiifitUitl4 the delivery In is ft J the local Coiner Clarion OH tin Cforfort of the map A pretty dancing girls will the milk on pulled by dapple grays hi the they will throw in path of wagon and on the hall will put garlands of wild flowers about the necks of Mayor May not reeve dap- my and other members of council Mayor will give a speech on town hall steps recalling former days before when the services of a milk delivery were unknown to the community I was asking Slim about the history behind this first milk wagon which is to bo preserved in the rear section of the fire hall building for post erity This here wagon declares Slim is a far cry from the modern rubbertired milk de livery wagon It says so in a recent issue of the Clarion Blast here where William Cursed Jr writes a edi torial The wheels Is made The Top Six Inches by Dairy Farmer wood with old Iron hoop cm forged by the local bygone day the Jab Nero the VoI strong man who died of a attack In a weight lifting at the fall fain Quite a lot of at Inched to this relic of the past Yep The Clarion ways that Its supposed to rep resent progress or here Oh yas here it says townspeople will glow with admiration burst with pride and feel a surge of civic loyalty it here when the milk wagon will travel streets of the Mayor will have an inspiring aft dress for the public I salrfj Oh I understand that William Rudolph Cursed has already written mayors speech lie will nam off all the important Indus of the town fist of and pay tribute to the leading citizens It sua will be a good speech especially if the people come up In July another big is coming up this new era of In Cut tin Corners A Alia Pickled of who will represent a local In dustry and a township product will be chosen by a committee of council We looking forward to this event which will be included in the great Pickled Festival thought up by Will iam Rudolph Cursed Jr wn age smip matoly their own of and social develop- THE HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN In admitted There wet York County hospital had patients I There were live births 11 pains of twins were operations major minor accident ward and blood transfusions were xrays taken and casts applied in the fracture room The did a total of procedures for hospital patients and outpatients The laundry averaged 26818 pieces of linen per month The dietary department served an average of meals per month York County hospital has many facilities available which are not to he found in all hospitals its size The various special departments such as operating worn case room nursery xray laboratory and dietary de partment are supervised by well trained experienced staff It now has a blood bank which enables it to always have blood available for all emergencies It also has three incubators in the nursery Two have been donated and are of useful for transporting babies for Sick Children whoa it is mrtable type which makes thorn hero to the Hospital found necessary to do so These are only some of the facilities which the York market and a large County hospital provides for and a largo surrounding district To help the hospital in its never- ending financial struggles the hospital auxiliary is start ing its campaign for funds on Way IK Citizens of New- will be doing the housetohouse canvassing in air own neighborhoods so the people calling on homes be thei to the occupants to assist llo local Toronto to and WHOS CRAZY V- Fort W three The Toronto Milk Producers organization is today faced with a very grave problem and its solution depends to a large ex tent on the future of our organ ization Before discussing the question on its merits we would like to say that it will be more important to our future how we arrive at a decision than what the decision itself is For some time now there have been plans afoot to own and operate a plant which would take care of our low priced or surplus milk The board of dir ectors have been instructed time and again to implement resolutions passed by the annual meetings to that effect Com- mittees have been appointed and reports been prepared Only last December another re solution was passed appointing a committee to organize such a plant on a Cooperative basis Now that plans are progres sing the Directors have finally taken a stand which no matter what way one interprets it shows that they are disapprov ing of the plan and that basical ly they have never been in fa vor of it At this point the situation be- comes very dangerous because any serious differences between the directors supposedly elected by the membership and the producers at large points out the fact that our leadership is weak hesitating and in the final count it might wreck the organization at a time when strong and unified action is nec essary to maintain our liveli hood The question of the owner ship of a plant is in Itself a very difficult one On one hand we have been bothered for a long lime with surpluses ami the feeling was that if those sur pluses could bo taken off the market better marketing con ditions would result We that by not shipping the surpluses to the dairies we would finally discover what dairy needs really are and would put us in a better position It also might result in a better price than the present for surplus milk So far it sounds simple and lo gical However there is another side to this problem First there seems to be some sort of an agreement that we shouldnt be in competition with the distri butors to whom we ship Then there is the danger that the dairies would insist that once the surplus is taken away from them due to the natural flue- i of the milk supplies they should be entitled to fur ther shippers In other word while they are getting some surplus milk we have a point for larger quotas but if there is just the amount available them that they need nothing binds them to take additional amounts from us and they will take on new shippers They in turn will depress the quotas and increase our surplus And finally our surplus milk will have to compete with other milk supplies mostly produced at lower costs thun ours After all our surplus is produced with the same overhead as milk our fluid Thus you can see that the question is complicated There are excuses for opposition to it and there is room for sincere opinions pro and con and it not surprising that the older producers would be more on the conservative side But there is no for the lack of firm leadership the temporizing and the complete disregard by the directors of the membership at large Neither Is any reason for the inten tional confusing of the issues and the deliberate lack of in formation on the subject ha sets there are ho radios and television By all accepted standards this fellow was He dirty Ms heard had off to his net of 7 IT to rt would rocker waist he Yet pose to in itself right to the nei would seem means to that same rather than advance up with it that om Psychiatrist remarked hi 0S modern ca the t want to hear radio and and tojovision or the rest This informal picture taken last Queen- summer and recently released are greatly appreciated by the a last iuwmi which is so often don