fMJ 4 i pICKVitO Vv iv vy v j 1- r T 5 j j f- J Si I IT ciRcuumoK i HI -V- for three months 1 AURORA AND THE RURAL DISTRICTS OF NORTH YORK Newmarket ISM Trading TOTAL PAID Ml Ian i tOIST YEAR EXPRESS HERALD NTH YEAR NO 2 NEWMARKET ONTARIO THURSDAY JANUARY 14 SINGLE COPIES CENTS EACH re and There round Town Local popular form of en lent at York appears to be dancing Last month Rewmaritet branch of the organized a square for old folk at the Others familiar with this of dancing assisted and the was a one for all led residents of the home requested another evening square It will be on Tuesday Jan at tinder the sponsorship of local Red Cross branch ibers of the Newmarket have been busy with projects lately As- in the preparations for Abduction of Aladdin was the clubs Mr painted all Mis for the pantomime He the skeleton costume worn tyHalloran In her solo Tonight William Hopklnson a demonstration and in the basement town hall An invitation been extended to all inter in painting to attend dollars has been donated Christmas street lighting of the chamber of the Newmarket Itural society heating plants at the public schools have causing trouble the past weeks One class from the school had to yesterday morning of coal gas The coal bid been noticeable in ih on Tuesday at the Stuart school were about de fer several days A visi- the school one morning at ft oclock reported the and pupils wearing their and other outdoor In an effort to keep it stems to be the way the weather Is mild the operates perfectly But it la needed the most ty develops COUNCIL POSTPONES DECISION r Subdivision On Ydhge St v Approval of twcGri the plan for a 140home subdivision extremities Ave and St on the west side of Newmarket was sought from town council on Monday night Council post- any decision and the owner of land Harold R Toronto is meeting with the planning com mittee of council tonight to discuss further details The warden and commissioners of York County wore in Toronto last week after they were elected to office Jack centre reeve of East township was elected warden by acclamation on Wednesday of last week On Thursday Ivan McLaughlin left reeve of Whitchurch township and Marshall McMurchy right reeve of township were elected county commissioners Era and Express photo t Take Council Vote On Taxi License At Next Meeting Vaccinations Ui teres has been shown 111 and North group of cattle owners M- to meet in Aharon Hall last Friday it was call a ral of Mr secure ft Craham Associate Live Commissioner for Ontario guest speaker will he held fmhv hall Sharon oh Wed- lay Jan 20 at pm and at Hall also on Jantiaiy at pm All cattle owners rther vaccinating for Bangs not are urged to at- i FRIENDS entertained nine at a birthday being of his fourteenth A vote on an application for a taxi license by Ray Carman was postponed at a meeting of coun cil Monday night A resolution to grant the license by Council lors Alex and Edward was was put in the form of a notice of motion has been applying for a license for over two years His application has been refused twice In the past few months Councillor first sub mitted a motion to rescind a council resolution cannot be submitted in council again for six weeks after it lias been defeated The clerk said that it was not necessary to re scind the rule since the new coun cil was not bound by it The solicitor was in some doubt about the rule he said Have we power to grant the license asked Councillor J C Hamilton chairman of the police committee The mayor said tho council has the power to grant it The committee should bring In a recommendation about this Reeve Dales The police chief has already made report said Councillor I made an Investiga tion myselfantl a lot of people have told their opinions I cannot see why he cant have a license The objections I have beard do not constitute sufficient grounds prevent a man from making a living He may be no angel hut neither am I Said Councillor Hamilton As chairman ef police commit tee I would like to go over with the chief I agree with what Mr lias said but I would like to get more would like to sen what Is hi that letter the chief was to have sub mitted Reeve pales suggested that matter ho held over In the form of a notice or motion It was at the mayors Insistence that the letter was not read In council he said He did not want the letter read in case it might in jure Carman Councillor was oppos ed to deferring the vote I hate to bring in personal matters but J was given- the runaround enough by postponements and I dont want to see it happen here Mr there will be no runaround I will sec to It that It is presented at the next meet ing on Monday night If there is any information to be unearthed will dig It- up said Councillor Hamilton dont understand what this talk Is about said DeputyReeve MacNnughton The mayor should not have kept that letter from the public She said she thought council should vote on the resolution Said Mrs and myself the two mem bers of the police committee We really overrule the chairman Its a notice of motion said the mayor We are only going In circles with this discussion ON COMMISSION Arthur Lloyd and Donald Cam have been appointed public school board representatives on the Newmarket recreation com mission f tx r MM w COUNCIL PLANS NEW BUILDING new municipal building for North township will be planned at a meeting of the township council on Saturday At a meeting last Monday council decided not to purchase the present building which houses the municipal offices at Keswick The building Is owned by Mrs J A Haines Council agreed hat town ship should have a fireproof building for township offices and storage of township records Council will consider a site for a new building and go into more details on Saturday TO DISCUSS EFFECT OF SUBDIVISION KM ON PUB SCHOOLS A special meeting Is being called by the public school board to discuss the effect on school space of several proposed sub divisions in the district for the meeting will be the school inspector George Noble and representatives from town council The decision to hold such a meeting followed discussion at the inaugural meeting of the board on Jan A letter from Mr Noble was received concerning this problem and the plans for the subdivision to be opened on the north side of Eagle St by Max were presented Also considered were the subdivision planned for The east side of St opposite the Farms and subdivision between and Sts of C K Sutton In answering Mr Nobles let ter the board stated that the present accommodation in the Newmarket schools is limited It will be possible to put addi tions to both the Stuart Scott and Prince Charles schools but there is no room for additions at the other two public schools OF held 01 The annual meeting of the Newmarket Chamber of Com merce will be hold on Tuesday Jan It has been suggested the executive of the chamber a dinner meeting for mem bers he held once a month WcCidloiigh chairman of the Santa Glaus parade mitiec reported at executive meeting Tuesday night that the committee expects a deficit of to Ihrottgh parade ex penses Before can subdivide the land which he has purchased from Ernest he must have the approval of the de partment of planning and de velopment The department will not give its approval until the town council approves of the plan In Introducing Mr to council Reeve Joseph Dales said that he had been before the planning committee of the town council and that the com mittee had been all for him Members of council who had not served in asked for more time to consider the pro posal Mr said that he had been negotiating with the planning committee for four months that he had spent con siderable time and money In planning and that he hoped for councils decision that night Ernest who attended the meeting with said that preparations had to be made for spring building Postpone Decision Councillor Alex Belugin said that it was the first time he had hoard of the plan and that more lime would be required to con sider it We dont want this to turn into another Tip Top Plastics affair he said Coun cillor said he did not see how council could promise a de cision by the following Monday night Reeve Dales said that he did not see why council could not make a decision the same night We have all the facts he said proached the committee last year and that after a couple of meetings they seemed favorable toward It He added On that I went ahead and bought the property The plan was shown to coun cil along with drawings of the types of houses which would be built There is a foot frontage on Yonge St for a modern shopping centre and plenty of parking said I am giving five acres for a school site Under the act it is only necessary to promise two and a half acres for school purposes We will pay for roads sewers and water also for sewer connec tions There will be no cost to the town Mr is donating acres for a park site Can there be any complica tions in regard to corner lots as there were on Ave asked Councillor We discussed that at the last planning board meeting said the reeve Mr sold that lots would have 60 foot frontages and that corner houses would not cut off the view from other houses Low Cost Bouses We would start building as soon as possible Houses would sell for a little over said Mr Lenhardt There would be brick houses under standards- We hope to have it under the new mortgage setup If it is the down payment will payment would be with out taxes Councillor asked about the architecture Mr said that there would be four different types of houses and rows of identical houses would be avoided There will be to different homes in a group he said Streets would be crescent shaped We already have three appli cations for space in a shopping centre on St he said The reason I am up here he continued is that a lot of peo ple are asking us for small down payment houses In he said lowest priced homes are for 13900 Up here land costs are lower and we can pro vide houses for less We will only make a house DeputyReeve asked about the interest rates At present interest is five and a half percent but we dont know what the new rale will be he said YORK JERSEY CLUB TO HOLD The York County Jersey Club twill hold its annual meeting at the Department of Agriculture Newmarket at 1030 am on diy Jan A special effort has been made this year to make an interesting meeting for all Jersey breeders and the speaker will bo Dr J It Dr has returned to Canada after several months of practice in New Zeal and where Jerseys are the most popular breed of cattle A free noon lunch will be serv ed and lucky prizes will be of fered HOLSTEIN CLUB ANNUAL MEETING said that he 1 be reduced to and month- SEEK TAX BALANCE J The Newmarket Chamber of Commerce has recommended that land along Yonge St be developed for industrial pur poses rather than for commer cial purposes At a meeting of the executive council of the chamber on Tues day night Councillor Edward explained the pro posed subdivision on the east side of St After a discussion a resolution was passed It states that the Chamber of Commerce recommend to the town council arid to the council planning that the following area be developed for Industrial purposes Eagle St to Davis Drive east of Yonge St TALK ON ROSES AT ANNUAL MEETING OF HORT SOCIETY John Clark Toronto will ad dress the annual meeting of the Newmarket Horticultural on Tuesday Jan In the school room of Trinity United church will bo topic his talk which will be illus trated with colored slides A usual annual meeting HI take forni of ft pot luck tipper at MO with session and slated for Idlal invitation Is extended to general public to aUpnd how will be presented in town hall two nighty Jan The Christmas made a hit with Now talent and special betweoncurtain com will be featured in next show Above Buitcr Baker and will be featured ftitoWrwho first show along with Bus- median Who hit with Interpretation of by RECEIVES fiHOLARSniP Rose daughter of Mr nil Mrs Rose and last ear graduate of Newmarket has been awarded one of Carter scholarships for general proficiency In grade These scholarships given to the three top ranking students in York County with the excep tion of those In the Toronto The first prize of awarded to a student of Forest Hill second prize of to Miss Rose and third prize went to s student of Vaughn Road nond mens madetomeasure stilts pa tits womei ex skirls free IU75 At FRIDAY JAN Dance In Hol land Landing hall Orchestra Lakes Simcoo Ram- Time pm JAN King City Masonic Hall Lake Marie Jackpot 10 Time sharp MirAY JAN con cert In the Canadian Concert pries 1 Artists duo pianists Clifford Poole ami Margaret clw2 SATURDAY JAN bingo Newmarket Town halt Jackpot hi Sharon hall pm Sponsored by Sharon JAN Newmarket Good I Door prize special games Free hits after bingo JAN lllngo in Aurora Canadian Legion hall game games Time sharp in aid of Canadian Legion Ladles Auxiliary THURSDAY JAN Sharon Home and will meet in Sharon school at Mr Noble inspector will speak JAN Home and School euchre at Holland hut school pm Frizes and refreshments Admission FRIDAY IAN at school under Community club pm prizes Lunch provided Admission FRIDAY JAN in Seoul Hall Newmarket of Mothers II buy pm Special door prizes Public cordially Admission 35c JAN Pol luck supper annual meeting and elec tion of of Newmarket society Trinity church Illustrated talk on roses John Clark Soloist Ken Stephens Supper pm Meet ins Public welcome JAN A Newmarket hall pm under auspices of York County hospital staff In aid of building fund Sponsored by Hospital auxiliary Admis sion adults children FRIDAY JAN 21 Keswick Kornlcer a directeil Mrs It A the Keswick Community hall Time Admission FIUDAY and carnival in Queens- vllle arena Watch for FRIDAY 12 AlliUlal enllne mid hake Wo mnns Trinity United church to pm Reserve the date DANCING every Friday to dlan Gates and his orchestra In Arena hall Saturday night dan at Mount Albert hall to Norm orchestra Mod em and old to a minimum depth of feet and that Millard Ave be ex tended to Yonge St The executive was of the opin ion that Newmarket should de velop on an equitable tax basis in line with the recommenda tions put forward by J Turn- bull head of the municipal di vision of the trade and industry branch department of planning and development Morri son and Murray Roberts are to represent the chamber at the meeting of the planning com mittee of town council tonight to explain the recommendation Mr advice to New market was mentioned during the discussion Speaking at a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the planning de partment official said residen tial and commercial assessment should be percent of the total assessment and industry should represent percent Newmarkets statistics showed that industry represented only percent the total assess ment it is better to put up a factory than to put up a housing subdivision ho said The Lenhardt subdivision plan culls for commercial develop ment on Yonge St Land has been set for a shopping centre Chamber of Com merce executive favored the idea that the town develop the land for light industry Rush From Toronto Councillor Hands said there might be a rush of Toronto people to buy the homes There are people waiting to come up here now but we will gladly set aside a certain num ber for Newmarket people said He suggested setting houses aside for local people I would suggest 50 percent said DeputyReeve We would do that but we would not want to be in a posi tion where we had to hold up sales for two years said We are not building schools for Toronto people commented Reeve Dales Lenhardt said houses would be built within a year or within two years if they were wanted No Access East The chief objection voiced in council was that no eastwest streets were provided in the plan to join the subdivision and the town It was not intended to continue Millard Ave west to link the subdivision and the town Councillor said there would bo no convenient ac cess to the subdivision for fire trucks or delivery services The plan calls for on access street to St and Lenhardt said a street could be extended north to Davis Drive They were the only two which could be provided according to the plan This is to be the point of dis cussion at the meeting of the planning committee tonight Councillor said that the extension of Millard Ave would be the solution It Is un- TO BE JAN 2 1 The annual meeting of the York County Club be held on Thursday Jan in the Masonic Hall Rich mond Hill The supporters of this active club will hear Dr J of the Animal Husbandry On tario Agricultural College Dr has been in charge of a research program volving sire indexing through herd classification and re cords This is the most extensive work yet undertaken in breeding research in Ontario Included in the program will be the election of officers tot the presentation of awards to the owners of record cows and the usual free noon i ABOUT SEWAGE TREATMENT J- The annual question about a- sewage disposal plant for New market was asked by the pro vincial department of health this week A letter Berrjr of the department noted that the- of sewage treatment had been put off annually ofc a long time A number of com plaints had been received by the department he said Reeve Dales suggested that the clerk write a letter to the department and report that the special sewage committee is meeting now and is investigating complaints ON HIGH SCHOOL BOARD Mrs J Edwards bus licctr ireappointed as a member of the that on Ml- Sutton Ave west do not want the street continued to St because they say there would be too much traffic on the street Councillor insisted that council not promise a de cision by next Monday night He said council should consider what added school and costs the subdivision quire These should be considered against the amount of board by Newmarket publuY board York County ap pointments to the high hoard are Dr Noble market and Mrs of North wlcn i SCOUT MEETING A Roy Scout group committee meeting will he held at the Scout taxes the subdivision will pro- hall on Monday evening Jan duce he said at pm NO SPYING Trustees i A WP BURNS Tito staff of the York County Hospital is presenting variety program with a Scottish flavor at Newmarket town hall on Thursday Jon when A Night Burns will bo singed The program will begin at pm Among the local soloists who will appear will bo Terry and Murray Huntley A choral group from the nursing staff of hospital will participate In program and a local come dian will bo featured The Haggis will be piped in The traditional address to Haggis by Burns will bo given The program Is under the pices of the York County pitnl Womens auxiliary Entire proceeds will go to the build ing fund of the hospital ON WEDNESDAY One of oldest readers of the Era and Express Mr Fred celebrated his birth day yesterday Mr bom Whitby and moved to Newmarket when he was small boy 1 i The duties school hoard wow among Che matters discussed at the inaugural meet log of he public school The questions were asked by the new of the who were attending their first meeting What authority has the school hoard for the of the teachers ami principals asked trustee Bruce Can members of the hoard- visit the schools to see how being done C- Nn replied the Bell referring to the section of the act which covers of trustees The principal is in charge of the school I don fool that board mem- have any right to he In the schools in what to spy How should complaints of parents be handled trustee Donald Cameron All should bo re ferred to the principal of the the school which the child is at tending the chairman Mr Roll or put In Writing Jo the board according to the act If wants ley of of the before lie has light of the board together with the subject which is discussed before a delegation appears he explain- Do we have supervising trustee Mr mont I feel that II A Jackson should be in complete authority over the four schools Each pvitv should be in charge of his own school and responsible to Mr Jackson who is responsible to board was unan imous agreement on this A- Jackson has vising principal since low when he was first appointed to post Mr Bell some of the former thought that he was not the supervising principal There nothing In the minutes to in- that any change has made since his appointment in added trustee John Ave should make It clear now- Jackson la the on the teachers and prlnvl lals Mr