CIRCULATION For three months September Newmarket Trading Aurora Others TOTAL PAID Newmarket ERA 104TH YEAR EXPRESS HERALD 61ST YEAR NO Here and There Around Town By Local Observer The question of attendance of the public at council meetings was raised on Monday by Councillor Alex Hands who said Many people have no idea that they arc free to attend these meetings They ask me if they can come he continued and I tell them that all regular session of council are open to the public I think we should have some thing put In the Era that all ihe residents will know they are welcome Several other members of council said that they have been asked similar questions and that they would welcome the display of interest in municipal affairs that such attendance would show People wishing to appear be fore council as a delegation are requested to contact the clerk Wesley Brooks prior to the meeting so that arrangements can be made for them to be heard without undue delay But those who wish to attend as spec tators can do so by coming to the main auditorium of the town hall A check with the clerks office each Monday will ascer tain if there is to be a council meeting that night NEWMARKET ONTARIO THURSDAY FEBRUARY SINGLE COPIES CENTS EACH Water Supply Would Towns Development Six was the lucky number in the Newmarket town hall Tuesday night Three people left the hall after the Lions Club draw each with a cheque for Above are the winners left to right Mrs Edith Wilson Maurice Mrs Olive Hughson and president Seneca Cook It was the second draw of this type held by the Lions The holders of the last three tickets to be drawn de cided to split the cash prize A buffet supper was held before the draw Proceeds from the event are for the York County Hospital building fund Photo by Stefaniuk As this is Candlemas Day Local Observer attempted to interview a ground hog to determine how long winter is to last Unfort unately the interview was not a success Not one ground hog could be found who would concern him self with anything as unimport ant as the weather Do you want to stand in the way of pro gress they asked Move along we have big deals to discuss It appears that the ground hogs have been bitten by the pro gress virus Already they have all the outlying fields subdivided ready for the influx of ground hogs from the southern munici palities The air was filled with argu ments about the location of the new shopping centre the possi bility of providing subway ser vice and the awarding of con tracts No one was interested in the weather Council Turns Down Second Move To Increase Salaries Of Members A proposal that the fee paid the mayor be doubled and fees received by other council mem bers be increased to a maximum of was turned down by council on Monday by a vote of five to three It isnt the lack of money but the fear of criticism that keeps people from entering poli tics said Deputy Reeve Violet She was replying to Council lor Alex who with Coun cillor Gladstone intro duced a resolution increasing the mayors fee from to SI a year and those of other council members from to for the first year the second year and a maxi mum for subsequent terms that chairmen of standing com- persons elected to municipal receive an additional fice should accept their Mr contended the In creased fees would encourage more people to run for municipal office He pointed to the of acclamations in recent years as evidence of disinterest in municipal politics Extra time demanded by council in many cases meant a loss of In come to members he said Low pay and poor work go together said Councillor Rid- Many men experienced in the business world who are liv ing on small pensions would like to serve on council but they can not afford to Reeve Edward sided with Mrs He felt it was an honor to serve WINS Mrs P Burnett Newmarket won 450 at the Richmond Hill bingo on Monday l To Develop Subdivision With 132 Bunding Lots North Of Hamilton Cor JUT A new subdivision is being opened north of Hamilton Corn ers Newmarket by the Sharon Mills Developments Ltd There ore building lots which will be developed over a three year period and homes will be started in April the firm an nounced The area is in East township on the west side the highway to Sharon It is north of the subdivi sion Tom Shea the sales manager said that the houses will be solid brick ranch style is a acre park on the property and plans have been made to construct a dam at a stream to provide a swim ming area for the subdivision The frontage of each lot is over feet The houses arc being built under the General contractor is W J Clutterbuck Take Registrations For Handicraft Classes Registrations are being receiv ed by the Newmarket Handcraft group for instruction in weaving leather work smocking and other crafts in preparation of the official opening of the groups Craft Centre on Tuesday Feb The Centre located on the farm The official opening day of the around the middle of March of Mr and Mrs James Cross- new wing at York County J Until last Friday all plans had St will be open to originally scheduled for Sat- 1 been completed for the opening public every Tuesday from The resolution also provided on council and maintained that Plaster Cracking To Delay Opening Of Hospital Wing sibilitles without regard for high remuneration Mayor Herbert who abstained from voting on the resolution said he would like to have seen a schedule of fees in troduced that would have placed more emphasis on remuneration for chairmen of committees Voting with Councillors and for the resolu tion was Councillor Alex Hands against were Reeve Deputy Reeve Mrs and Councillors George Has- Robert and John Choppin Question Purchase Of Salt By Town An account was questioned by Councillor Gladstone Ridler at the Jan 30 meeting of town council when he suggested that the purchase of rock salt should have been made through a local firm Is that a direct purchase from the company he asked in refer ring to the account of Salt Co for The Newmar ket CoOp is a jobber for salt They could have handled the order for the same price Mr added Reeve Edward said that the rock salt had been Obtained from Sifto Salt Co with a second bid having been obtained from another out-of- town company The price ac cepted was the lower one The Newmarket CoOp doesnt handle that kind of salt explained the town engineer who had signed the order which bore the reeves initials That doesnt have anything to do with it replied Mr The local store could have ob tained the salt for the town the same as Sifto Salt Co A recommendation that no further development bo consider for Newmarket until an addi tional water supply is found was made to town council on Monday night by Chairman Alex Hands of the Water committee We have water for our pres ent needs said Councillor Hands There is no need for panic Perhaps not replied Coun cillor Gladstone Ridler but there is reason for immediate concern and a crying need for immediate action Councillor Hands estimated that it would require per cent of the total capacity of the Newmarket pumps to handle the peak demand for water during July and August By that time construction will be com- pleted on 215 houses the Metro Home for the Aged and the ad dition to York County hospital and they will require an aver age demand of gallons per day over the require ments Mr Hands said The summertime peak can be materially reduced by restricting the use of water for irrigation and refrigeration However he cripple the system water were pumped by the two When we were considering wells with Cotter St well pro- sub divisions a year or so ago hiding gallons This well would seriously continued with these restric tions we arc coming dangerously If we can buy through the to our capacity The failure CoOp and get it at the same one price said Reeve Ill along with that You agree on that what of other purchases asked Mr- We are only dealing with this one account interrupted Dep uty Reeve Violet who was chairing the Commit tee of the Whole You can raise those questions later We are dealing with pur chases answered Mr There is a principle involved The reeve promised to look into the matter and report back to council added Councillor Alex we were assured that there was plenty of water Many of us doubted that Without water we cant inter est new industries in coming to Newmarket said Councillor Action is being taken to correct the sewage question In the meantime the Water commit tee says to hold up the entire development of the community for lack of water At the last meeting of council a recommendation was received in a letter from Dr Robert King medical director of York Coun ty Health Unit who advised against approving a subdivision because of inade quate sewage treatment facilities and uncertain future water sup plies In the report prepared by Town Engineer Denne and presented to council by Mr Hands was a complete review of the water consumption for the town last year The Cotter and Water Sis wells were used with the Srigley Street one being kept in reserve Despite the excep tion no restrictions were placed on the use of water the report were referred stated meeting of council In gallons represented an increase of more than million gallons over The average daily pumpage was with the amount reaching a peak in August of gallons per day The estimated peak load for is gallons per day It would necessitate the pumps be ing operated hours and minutes in each allowing only five and a half hours for recovery the report said We might as well not have a Planning and Industrial commit tee under the present setup said Council Ridler With out water we cant do anything to improve the community We need water and we need it badly One industry may leave unless we con do some thing to provide it with the ex tra gallons it needs daily continued Mr Another industry about to come to town needs water to thousand gallons a day These are serious sums when added to what the Water committee chairman has said What are we to do The recommendations and to the next Hear Complaint About Town Engineer Explains sate or Water Search Policy Next Council Meeting Monday February 13 There will be no meeting of Aurora town council next week because of numerous other meet ings members must attend The next meeting will be held on Monday Feb Feb has been post poned Tentatively it is expect ed that the opening will be Seek Provincial Aid On Sewer Cosh a Blue Cross Group Leaders To Tour York County Hospital Invitations to a preview of the new York County Hospital wing on Thursday afternoon Feb have been sent to the leaders of Blue Cross groups in Aurora Newmarket and Bradford The event which is under the aus pices of the hospital is being held prior to the official opening on February at 2 pm in recognition of the important part played on the community health team by the Blue Cross Group Leaders who serve vol untarily on behalf of their fellow employees The York County Hospital is a member of the Ontario Hospital Association as are all other pub lic general and Red Cross hos pitals in Ontario It is the co operation of industry and those who act as Blue Cross Group Leaders that makes it possible for when it wax discovered that had started to crack on some arrangements of the ceilings in new rooms In A the operating room plaster started to fall from the ceiling It is understood that much of the plastering will have to be done over again and the project will take several weeks Percent 55 Taxes Collected In presenting the annual finan cial statement to council on Mon day night ClerkTreasurer Wes ley Brooks said that per cent of the taxes had been collected as well per cent of the tax arrears He told council that In for general expenses and 287000 In debentures had passed through the clerks office total debenture debt is with a por tion of this being recoverable from other municipalities school boards and the hydro classes have not been set Those who are interested in learning a craft are requested to contact Mrs Arthur who will call an organization meeting in the near future Mrs James Knowles Years Old Tuesday Mis dames Knowles Cathar ine Avenue Aurora celebrated her birthday on Tuesday Town council sent flowers and a letter of to Mrs Criticizes Eras Editorial On Towns Water Policy A detailed report was present ed to town council by Denne engineer on Monday night It explained the past policy in finding water supplies for Newmarket and outlined future plans There is no known method of finding water except by test drilling Mr said He told council that the Internation al Water Supply company had drilled all over Newmarket and that the possibilities of a major ground water supply in the Im mediate vicinity of Newmarket have been exhausted Since tost holes have been drilled in and around New market the town engineer said The Street well resulted after seven tost holes had been drilled By additional de mands for water made it nec essary to resume test drilling and after eight additional tost holes had been drilled the site of the Cotter Street well was found It was developed In concession St to the Holland River at Bradford has been formulated The scheme was planned to follow No highway from Hot- land Landing at least as far west 100 License Is Required A complaint regarding the selling roses around town each weekend by young men was presented to council on Jan by Councillor Robert on behalf of the local florists believe in free enterprise he said but I think that there must be some way we can pro as the River explained Mr Bos- tect our merchants who are pay- worth But the first location at i taxes Holland Landing had to be aban doned since the villagers feared their own water supply would be affected adversely A supply of four to five mil lion gallons a day is being sought in this wide scale operation This would supply a population of with accompanying indus tries The and Blan chard creeks east of the town and Lake Siineoe were other possible sources for town water the engineer said Future plans for supplying ad ditional water for Newmarket in clude continuing the test drilling program and investigation of the area in and around Holland Marsh as far west as the Holland In IMS and MM holes In of the Criticism of an editorial Try Jug followed Mr Hands on the town engineer to speak on the subject and a detailed re port was given by Mr Anything Policy To Continue the Jan issue of the Era and was voiced by Coun cillor Alex Hands chairman of the Water committee of Jan He vigorously denied that any try anything program was be ing carried out by his committee in its search for additional water supplies and said that a care fully mapped out plan was council endorsed resolution submitted by the Port hospitals to offer this program pro tection through their association During Blue Cross council that the prov ince be requested for assistance with the installation of sanitary sewers Port said in its letter to the town fathers that such help was being given municipalities by Quebec and that Ontario should be asked to do likewise It is better for such a recom mendation to come from the Ontario association of Mayors and Reeves suggested Mayor Herbert Nothing much Is achieved by the ragged attempt of one council I dont agree with the mayor This is not a ragged attempt by one municipality replied Coun cillor Alex This is an example of the democratic prin ciple work Reeve Edward Wrightman said that the matter had been discussed at the convention which he and Councillor Hands had attended It was felt there that since It was the province that was insisting on municipal ities installing sewers the prov ince should assist by subsidizing the project It Is important for the town council to decide Its viewpoint on such subjects so that it can fiS represented by the mayor and inventions said Coming Events hospitalized in the York County Hospital received bene fits totalling 7289725 Through- out the whole province last year the Plan provided subscriber benefits amounting to over The afternoon program for Group Leaders and other guests begins at pm Feb with greetings from Mr K M Stiver chairman of the Board of York County Hospital Mr A Spear member of the Board and brief messages by Mayor Dr J Henderson Aurora Mr Gladman Newmarket Reeve A Evans Bradford Following a message by Mr J Barnard a Blue Cross official of the On tario Hospital Association the visitors will bo taken behind the scenes of the hospital to view the new wing and the ex cellent facilities the hospital now has available for the care of sick and injured The completion of the new wing will increase the hospitals bed capacity from plus 36 bassinettes and will provide two operating rooms and mod ern kitchen and cafeteria facili ties The total cost of the struc- THURSDAY FEB 2 Bingo at Aurora Legion hall over In prizes Share the wealth Jack pot numbers called Ad mission for games FRIDAY FEB 3 Dance at Sharon Hall sponsored by on Home and School Assn Good orchestra Everyone welcome Cafeteria lunch Kins City Crawford by Norm FRIDAY FEB Firemens Dance Wells Hall music orchestra and draw prizes 50c SATURDAY FEB St Johns bingo in Newmarket Town hall pm Jackpot 210 numbers called Free din nor ware SATURDAY FEB Queens- ville Fire Hall will be open for inspection by residents of the fire area from to and to pm MONDAY FEB com- mittee meeting in the Scout hall at pm All fathers of cubs and scouts urged to attend TUESDAY FEB Euchre sponsored by Hope Hobby Club In Sharon hall at pm Prizes lunch THURSDAY FEB Oyster supper sponsored by King City Lions Club In the basement of church King City Supper FRIDAY FEB Valentine tea and bake sale under auspices of Trinity United Womans Association 3 to pm Plan to attend SATURDAY FEB Valen tine tea and bake sale under the auspices of the SharonHope Friendship Circle from to pm at Sharon Hall in aid of church building fund TUESDAY FEB Bread Bun baking demonstration at Stuart Scott School Newmarket p Sponsored by Stuart Scott Home and School Associa tion Admission WEDNESDAY FEB The annual Valentine carnival spon sored Bert will be held In the arena p Please watch for further notice FRIDAY MARCH 2 Tho Handi craft Guild of St Andrews Presbyterian church are holding a Candlelight tea for their An niversary from pm to pm Admission FRIDAY MAR St Patricks tea and bake sale candy tabic touch and take at St Pauls Parish hall from to Sponsored by St Pauls Paroch ial Guild BINGO every Saturday night at prru Euchre every Thursday light at pm In North The town only lost 250 not 500 by abandoning the test drilling at Holland Landing Mr Hands said Due to a move by the International Water Sup ply company this was possible It had been stated at the Jan meeting of council by the mayor that the town would lose Mr Hands quoted the editorial Tims town has a try anything policy governing the search for water it gives the International Water Supply Company free hand to drill on any ground where it may be inclined to take its equipment The fact is that town officials did not know drill ing equipment was near Holl and Landing until local residents complained This is not true continued Mr Hands The International Water Supply Company never moves to a location until told to move there by the engineer or superintendent of the water works Isnt it true that they didnt they were in the area of the wells at Holland Landing asked Mayor who at the Jan meeting had told council that the Water commit tee had not realized artesian wells were located near the pro posed test drilling sit Yes agreed Mr Hands They landed smack in the middle of five artesian wells but they went to Holland Landing to drill on our orders and wo halted operation as soon we realized the situation Newmarket and surrounding dis trict were drilled this series the Water Street well was de veloped Drilling operations have been continued since then in other locations It was In that the second St well was found It is the one now In operation Mr explained that geologists believe there Is a pro vincial river valley from north to south in the location of Holland Marsh With this I In mind plan to test drill at onemile Intervals from the Sec- Newmarket Community Credit Union Formed A new credit union was form ed recently in Newmarket district It is called the New market Community Credit Union Information about the union may be obtained from Bruce McCiymont manager of the Newmarket District Cooper ative who helped form the union President of the credit union is Frank Wear vicepresident William Bales Sharon directors Ross Armi- R 3 Newmarket and William Taylor Sharon treas urer William Newmar ket and secretary Grace Col- clough Newmarket Several members of council said that the rose salesmen claimed they grew their own flowers and had a license which permitted them to sell their own produce in the community The Retail Florists association has checked into the matter thor- replied Councillor They report that the flowers are purchased for If the case they will need a transient traders license to resell the flowers explained Kenneth Stiver town solicitor He told council that such lic ense would cost 100 and that the clerk would have the riht to refuse permission for them to soli flowers in town until they had proven that they grew them They misrepresented the situa tion to the clerk said Mr Stiver flow and purity of the water in the and creeks and preparing estimates of the cost of supplying this water STREET LIGHTING to the towns system and finally Council approved a petition preparing preliminary and if rom homeowners on Kathryn estimating the cast of establish ing a water area for the northern section of the county using Lake for the source Crescent Edward St and Avenue Road for street lights The request was referred to the Hydro Commission Suttons Reeve Lamont Convicted On Charge Of Impaired Driving from to 8-Pm- Memorial Centre BYLAW The town solicitor was author ized to redraft the Newmarket transient traders bylaw by town THAT BUILDING RE REMOVED In a letter from the Chamber of Commerce attention was call ed to the old building the northcast corner of St at this weeks council meeting The Chamber recommended that the objectionable building be re moved immediately because of its detrimental effect on the atti tude of visitors to the town The solicitor recommended that a letter be written the own er stating that the building con stituted a fire hazard There have been several small fires there already A copy of the let ter will be forwarded to the Reeve George Lamont of Sut ton was convicted of impaired driving following one of the longest cases of its kind in New market court yesterday He was fined 50 and costs and his driv ers license was suspended for three months Magistrate gave his decision after five hours of testi mony during which six witnesses took the stand The trial made public friction between Mr La and Chief Constable Leon ard Don tier who laid the charge Chief told the court a police car was almost by a car driven by Lamont on the night of Jan Later at the police station he said La accused him of not playing ball with me advised Mr not to have blood test in his condi tion said Dr Noble He was daring the chief to charge him Reeve lament denied driving on the section of road of which Chief had said the police car was almost He said the chief had laid a false charge against him out of spite He said friction between and himself had developed over an expense account for the chiefs recent trip to Vancouver to bring back a cattle rustling suspect and charges against other rustling suspects Magistrate dis agreed with defense counsels contention that the charge against Lament was influenced by bad feeling between Donner and He said he told he would be charged and quoted him as saying Would you WILL ADDRESS charge the chief magistrate of the town and a commissioner of this county The officer said de manded a blood test then refus ed to take one after Dr S Noble was brought to the station Dr Noble testified that La ment was aggressive and antag onistic toward the chief He said he felt Lamont was impaired but urged him to shake hands with the AND SCHOOL Dr Koerber former principal of St School for Boys Toronto will address the Home and School council meeting here tonight The meeting beginning at pm in the Prince Charles school is open to everyone Dr Koerber is director of special education for The Keswick will pro-