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A On Flo i Al Snow Don Best Arrange New Business Partnership Many favorable comments have been heard con cerning the fast work carried out in regard to the in- of floodlighting facilities The six poles needed for lighting were in their places a few days following the inaugural meeting of the newlyformed Athletic Field board Charles Copland hydro super- and Jim town foreman amalgamated their staffs for the carrying out of the work which was complet ed in one day Jim Wilson con tributed to the job by lending his truck and shovel The boys have been working hard in a limited period lo get in as many subscriptions as pos sible to liquidate the promise made to council that the com mittee would find of the total sum of A list of the subscribers up to Aurora News Page press time be found in other columas of the second Aurora News Page A Good Choice The Athletic Field board is a very representative one For a number of reasons we were es pecially pleased at the inclusion of Mr John Willis whose has direct associations with Aurora for something like one hundred years Since his ap pointment we have heard num erous suggestions that John would make an excellent mem ber of the town council and we heartily agree John Willis never hesitates to express an opinion on any sub ject that interests him Nor is he easily bawled out But this we can say from experience However be may argue the point he never introduces ran cour or persona feeling into a discussion Hes as good a friend at the end of the argument as he was at its start Speaking of the acting secre tarytreasurer to the Athletic Field board Gardner Lloyd Gardner not Gardiner please that was an odd com ment the Banner carried about him last week It described Gardner as a man from outside Aurora The odd remark lias amused many people who know that Mr Lloyd was born in Au rora educated here and has hardly been away from the town His family is one of the oldest in Aurora Since Gard ner Lloyd was in at the start of the floodlighting project and has worked hard for Its success the remark of his being an out sider is hard to understand ex cept for the understanding that the oddest quirks and quiddities locate In the Banner Meeting A meeting of the commission was held day night April following members were in at tendance J Buchanan chair man Lea vicechair man Don Glass Councillors Davidson Jones J Murray and John Cliff King A Holmes and Purchase who received a hearty welcome on his return by the chairmen and old colleagues Others present vere P K Perry- recreation director Mundeli assistant director and Bell secretarytreasurer of the work carried out during the evening was of a routine nature Reports on the work of committees were pre sented by Don Glass David son and the di rector On a special committee re port concerning the purchase of childrens equipment for play grounds the coat of which was provided by the donation from the Rotary club Mr J Murray enumerated a variety of these purchases Including kiddy climbers teetertotters double swings and a merrygoround The selection had been made by the director Mr King and himself said Mr Murray The report was unanimously ap proved Other Mr Don Glass stressed the on the i Mart Canto Agent For Era Clarified Ads Is f J WILLIS The Rml Drug Store New Tobacconist etc Founded St Aim It A Scrvtc Stop At MORNINGS DRUG STORE of getting the play grounds into early shape and this was agreed to Considerable discussion arose on arrange ments to be made between the commission and the agricultural society for a dance on Saturday night May 16 the matter to be determined after further con sultations It was decided that the presentation of crests award ed in the swimming classes be made at a Family night meeting New Aurora Company We take pleasure in drawing the attention of our readers to a new company which has been formed in Aurora under the partnership of Mr Snow and Mr Don Best It is the new firm of Snow and Best Heating Ltd The location of the company is on St north where the installation of new machinery vill meet the most modern re quirements Among other ser vices which the new company will offer its customers are tin- smithing airconditioning all j varieties of sheet metal work spare parts and fixtures Ex tension of premises is under way to enable all orders to be handled expeditiously All em ployees are factorytrained and additions to the staff are being made The new company is a devel opment from the Snow Heating Appliances which has been in operation during the past seven years at the location of the new firm Both Mr Snow and Mr Best are wellknown in Aurora Before the new partnership was completed Mr Best had been in the service of Bowsers hard ware sheet metal department for the past six years He has bad years experience at his trade Beauty Culture As be noted from an nouncements Miss Lesley Anne Atkins the wellknown beauty expert and consultant will lec ture in the Oddfellows hall at oclock on Monday night April and on the following day will be at the drug store where she will readily dis cuss beauty problems with la dies from Aurora and district There will be no charge for this service on Tuesday April The request for consulta tions will undoubtedly be heavy in view of Miss Atkins fame as a specialist in her department of beauty culture Colored Face Recently wo were obliged to a gentleman resident at for a correction of an error we made concerning the agricul tural department of the provin cial government and which we duly acknowledged in these col- Two oilier paragraphs in his letter also interested us the first of these being For some time now I have been a subscriber to the Era and press and I do not hesitate to say that I have enjoyed reading all sections of this weekly paper Since I was bom at King Out and spent years of my life there the ac tivities of this particular area are dear lo my heart I also at tended Aurora high school and therefore have many friends and acquaintances in your town The second paragraph reads I read the Aurora News Pago regularly not only the personal items but the editorials and council reports Your system of reporting a council meeting Is unique to say the least and I do find It refreshing to follow this manner of reporting on council business While you do not dish out many bouquets I am sure your columns result in a good many wellcolored faces It is of course always a pleas ure to bring the blush of pride to the cheeks of I he subject of anyone on whom a writer com ments And as for wellcol ored faces people as we pointed out to our valued cor respondent spend money to fiucli fnclal attraction If our writings achieve such re sults without cost to the benefic iaries our reports are assuredly not in vain No Report There is still no report from the Aurora board of trade on the public funds It holds Wo won- dor if there are any faces In that department of local activity If not wail lust have to keep on rubbing it in Orchestral On Tuesday night April 28 the Aurora District high school the Coronation Little Symphony orchestra will glvo their first public concert program Ih a varied and should a most entertaining evening There will also be In attendance the male quartet consisting of four of Toronto orchestra has been re hearsing diligently for the put months under the ship of conductor Bod V Smith meeting together weekly for practice period We hope there will be full on night April St then J SINCLAIR Editor OFFICfcJ DOAN HALL AURORA TELEPHONE PAGE ELEVEN THURSDAY THE TWENTYTHIRD DAY OF APRIL NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYTHREE EDITORIALS APRIL 1951 APRIL 1 Two years ago this present month we began our association with the Era Express by founding the Aurora News Page Thus we celebrate another birth day on a newspaper for which we have been proud to write We have been proud also to serve the interests of our Aurora readers by giving them facts and opinions unadulterated by personal or advertising considerations We have received magnificent support from our Aurora readers The proof of this is in the increasing sales of our newspaper AH attempts to down us have failed Many such attempts have been made by the Banner and a small group of men of varying degrees of importance none of it of a major quality and most of it selfassumed pi For some time now the Banner has refrained from publishing abusive anonymous letters charging us with damaging the town or in Reeve Cooks more pious phrase damning it It could be that the Banner man agement ml these attacks most harmful to itself Abusive anonymous letters carry no weight with intelligent readers One of our major undertakings during the past two years has been to report as fully as space would allow the doings of the town council In carrying out that undertaking we a v reported what we have heard and followed this up by commenting on it the following week The comments are contained in our feature article Council Sidelights In noting another year of progress for Aurora News Page we sincerely thank our readers for their loyal support and also thank alt those who have taken any part in the sale of our newspaper The great progress of the Era and Express as shown by the audited figures recently published proves that it is the class of weekly newspaper most readers want THAT 180 GUARANTEE At this writing we dont know what council will finally do with regard to the motion that slumped so badly when it was proposed that a grant of be made to the in connection with the running of an excursion train from Toronto to Aurora on the steam train centennial dale May Only three supporters favored the motion at the council meeting on April Whether council will review the proposal so favor ably recommended by the mayor remains to be seen To us the proposal seemed preposterous a little screwy as Councillor Davidson described it The steam train centennial is obviously a project Its relationship to Aurora is no more than incidental Con sidering the fuss Banner has been making over the event one might think that the steam train had been run for the benefit of the village of Aurora as it was then Quite recently the paid over to the govern ment a dividend of That proof of profit does not suggest that the needs a backing of from the Aurora town treasury Yet tho reeve deputy- reeve and councillor apparently thought it did If the has not worth of confidence In proposed excursion train why should Aurora hold bag In the 100 yours of steam train service Aurora does not appear to have received many advantages On enquiry wo were informed that only three trains carry passengers daily between Aurora ami Toronto at am am and pm Only three trains from Toronto carry passengors to Aurora at am pm and pm return fare is and there Is a weekend return Tare On such Information it Is scarcely possible to arouse any unusual degree of excitement for a that means so little in practical service to travellers in the year IMS REPORT Aurora Social News School Costs Need Reassessing And Outstanding Taxes Debated The mayor presided at a general meeting of council held on Monday night April 20 at which Councillor Dale King chairman of the finance committee present ed a budget that made history in Aurora An increase of mills over the figure of brought the mill rate for to an allhigh of Reeve Cook was absent from the meeting The class met on Tues day evening at the home of Mia Lottie Mr and Mrs were in recently The Dorcas Society of the First Baptist church met on Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs James Fisher Maple St The United church was well fill ed on Tuesday evening when the Baptist Young Peoples Choral Society of Toronto presented a sacred concert Easter Choral- feat On Monday evening April the Evening Group of the Wo mens Association met In the church parlors Mrs Caul- field gave an interesting talk on gardening The Womens Institute will hold its regular monthly meet ing in the United church parlors on Thursday afternoon Mr and Mrs Don Stevenson and family St Thomas were guests last week Mr and Mrs Lambert Rev A Dog get Pine Or chard was the guest minister at the United church on Sunday evening On April 24 there will be a Trend tea at the home of Mrs J P Crysdale Kennedy St Transportation from the post of fice has been arranged Miss Ada Wood vis ited Mr and Mrs White- Page Cot METHODS The council and a committee of the board of of Mr Picking held another of closed mcetlngrt and made an Inspection of old public to which Dr formerly gave vivid pseu donym old derelict reason to that on this a vote to hold a mooting wan not a consultations concerning tho county seat Aurora and In position as warden of tho county Mr A A Cook should bo party Ho should worn the playing tho interests of ono municipality off against another Ah of Mm MitttttM to promote of tho all ho Wo hoar that Idea of handing ovor public bait to catch the county seat We hoar that the school board is toying with the Idea of handing over the old derelict to help catch the county mat Hole methods conducted by those who better are orlouily damaging the Aurora It too bad Among the correspondence read was a letter from Mr B Gilbert in which he complained that he had not been asked to tender for new waterworks pickup truck and wondered why Councillor J Murray chairman of the fire and water department said there were two reasons why Mr Gilbert had not been asked to tender The first was that the was not in their opinion in the price range his committee needed and the second reason was that Mr Gil bert could not expect to gel all the business in town which he Mr Murray thought should be moved around He said he was both disappointed and surprised that Mr Gilbert had sent such a letter to council A motion to send Mr Gilbert a letter of reply was adopted Aurora Bears The mayor suggested that the 300 grant to buy sweaters for the Aurora Bears should bo held over with a view to diverting the money to help a town fund for the forthcoming defence of Walter Fines Councillor Murray and Jones agreed that everything should be done to support the boy and these views were endorsed by all members of council The Budget Councillor Dale King finance committee chairman introduced the budget a complete re port of which readers will find on the second Aurora News Page In the course of his com ments Mr King disclosed that were outstanding in tax es an increase of over the previous year Considerable discussion took place on budget figures Councillor J Murray said that the chief reason for heavy of the previous year was to be found in the public school hoard expenditures Continuing his argument Mr Murray said that on the surface it seemed that council had no control over public school ex penditures hut actually they had control if they wanted to exor cise it Ho claimed that there had been waste of money in tin past and bad calculations during present period He said that some years ago tho public school board had let some down the drain and for recent purposes the hoard had miscal culated costs by Councillor Murray reminded council that Mr had re turned from his estimated contract which perhaps an other contractor would not done He said present coun cil as far as now members were concerned was not respon sible for the heavy mill Increase Councillor King a vigor- j defence of public school board saying it was a properly elected body and had a right to make its own decisions He said they couldnt have gone on with tho old school and they had two fine schools now Councillor Davidson consider ed that both schools could have been modernized and continued in use at a great saving of lax- payers money Deputy- Reeve Murray said that the extra cost of education had to be taken into account Replying to Councillor Murray the deputyreeve said the pur chase of the land on George St might prove of great value in the near future The mayor commended Coun cillor King and his committee on the budget saying that the need for extra taxes had been met courageously He drew atten tion to the excellent graph Mr King had drawn up for ready understanding of mill rate per centages On a motion by Councillor King seconded by Deputy- Reeve Murray the budget was unanimously adopted Unpaid Taxes Councillor Moffat drew atten tion to the arrears of and said this was a seri ous matter If this considerable sum had been collected it could meant a much smaller ad dition in the mill rate Mrs Moffat asked what council in tended do on the matter The mayor said a special meet ing should he called and the list of delinquents considered and action taken to recover arrears This was agreed to Subdivision Councillor J Murray drew the attention of council to an Important reservation that ap peared in the plan and said that amounting to one foot of land could If per mitted give a power to the owner that was not in the draft plan which council had approv ed Mr Murray suggested that no services by the town he un dertaken until such as the matter was clarified The deputyreeve ami other members of council agreed that the reservation was not included in draft plan Council agreed not to proceed further until whole matter was clari fied and the planning hoard was requested to take steps accord ingly New Track The mayor referred to a little ceremony that hod taken place at the service station when Councillors Murray and Jones attended with himself to hand tho key of the new water works truck over to Joe Mc- Ho said the boys were very happy over now equip ment Page Col ft kip mm i flVr WEEKDAYS FROM PM SATURDAY PM SATURDAY MATINEE AT v- m J AND W- v STARRING RAY and DORIS DAYS MOMDAY lit- 2829 s sir M A ROBERT GEORGE ft l PRICKS FOR THIS PERFORMANCE EVENINGS iv Children SPECIAL MATINEE Af ML V A IniM 1iir 3tth5 I- v