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Newmarket Era and Express (Newmarket, ON), September 30, 1954, p. 2

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i v T fc J I asm from the A We were looking at a picture Service release the oilier day Showing a flypast of jet planes in on the anniversary of the Battle of Britain We re member dark days when the pilots of Spitfires arid Hurricanes were a desperate battle At thai toe we at the ten der age of a nigh school student but we remember lis tening to those broadcasts when the few were their stand against Hitlers bombers and fighters We saw a report that the last Spitfire went out of service a few months ago Hurricane are probably out of service now although a year or so ago they were being used by the Portu gese government We hope a few are saved for museums and keep some of them flying for sentimental reasons The recent flypast of jet fighters over London was led by one Spitfire and one Hurricane The names of the pilots were not known We were aroused that the caption on the picture referr ed to these aircraft as being ancient Although they are called an cient the engines that power them Rolls Royce Merlins take hundreds of Canadians every day over the air lanes In modem TCA North Star airliners and they are still being used in coast al patrol aircraft would not want to hear the Merlins call ed ancient Serving and rural district of North York Era The Express Herald NEWSPAPER Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Published ever Thursday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express limited Subscription 4 for two years tor Off year in advance Single copies or each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorize as Second Class Mail Post Office Deportment Ottawa JOHN managing titter CAXOUNt GEOftGE HASKETT Sports editor We attended an air show last Saturday over at Maple airport which is operated by Miss Mari an who we understand was a ferry pilot during the war The local amateur pilots put on a fine show with practise bombing an air race and glid ing- There was a parachute jump as well- But a demonstration of aero batics by Canadian designed and built jet allweather fighters took our breath away The two pilots one an test pilot demonstrated hair raising and loops which would make anyone feel faint It seems that craft no longer fly They just go by brute force The Buck Rogers era already here THE Job and reduction EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF SEPTEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago SEPT Mrs Rev- Park after spending a week at home here with hex parents Mr and Mrs Walter was motored to Cayuga on Saturday by the lat ter who returned on Sunday evening after a very pleasant Mr and Mrs John Phillips and grandchildren Mr and Mrs Phillips and Mr Phillips all of Gait also Mr and Mrs Ralph of Bel- haven visited at Mrs C last Sunday Over people witnessed the unique demonstration at Mr V Canes auto hall last Thursday evening besides a number In the afternoon Mr motor expert gave an interesting lecture on the Phantom chassis car and pic tures were thrown on a screen pointing out how the car was constructed and the uptodate improvements In the words of the old song the frost was on the pump kin last weekend tomatoes cucumbers and other tender plants suffered severely There were white frosts on Friday and Saturday morning and a black frost on Sunday morn ing Misses Jean and Florence left Monday for St Hildas college Toronto Hundreds of people were wonderfully surprised at the magic art of Mr Johnston on his last visit to Newmarket at the Palace theatre The Irish trebles tournament under the auspices of Newmar ket club last Wednes day afternoon and evening was favored with beautiful weather and was a great success Mr J Glover and fam ily are moving to Toronto next week Mr has been distributing agent for the Im perial Oil in this district Mr Thomas Will be his successor here Miss Beatrice intraining at the General hos pital Toronto has finished her course and is now spending a few weeks with parents Mr and Mrs David and family of Prospect Ave moved to Toronto last Monday where Mr and Miss are attending university Mrs J A spent a few days in this the guest of Dr and Mrs of Boys Training school SEPT The finest region in Canada for the hunter who wishes to secure moose is the Temagami reign in New Ontario and now easy to access by the Grand Trunk railway system and North Bay The biggest crowd last Thursday that the North York fair ever had The gate re ceipts were better than any previous day on record Rev and Mrs called at the manse on their way to the city where Mr is attending Knox Col lege alumni meetings Mrs Bell arrived in town on Friday after an ab sence of four years spent In British Columbia and Cali fornia She is visiting friends Miss Jennie of To ronto was visiting relatives in town and vicinity last week Mrs C enter tained a number of people last Thursday evening in her honor and Mrs W on Fri day evening Mr Isaac postmas ter at Dawson City gave the Era a call last week while In town attending the fain He looks as if the Yukon country agrees with him He is here on two months leave of ab sence visiting friends in this section Mr Jonathan Rogers and wife of Toronto also Mrs Allle Vernon and family of were visiting their father Mr John Rogers Mrs Allan Howard and her mother Mrs left on Sat urday for St reels to visit her sister Mrs Telfer for a couple of weeks Mr and Mrs Albert erill and Mr and Mrs Arthur also Mrs Web ster and Mr Will Webster spent Sunday friends in Mr A Gordon formerly of Sutton and an old friend of Rev Mr Campbell called here on Saturday Mr If and fam ily are hack Stow Orchard Beach Lawyer- and family came hack week Miss of the was in town on Monday She will visit North York friends for a couple of months Rev J Campbell made a short visit at the manse last before leaving for the west where he intends to settle MARILYN IS FETED IN YORK Centre or taw York York followed bar PRAISE FOR HOSPITAL WORKERS Deserving of praise are the people in York County who are working on the York County hospital building fund campaign It was reported this week that cash and pledges excluding all government grants total 125000 but the significant fact is that the cost of rais ing that amount of money was only and some cents most of it for postage According to the cam paign workers there are more contributions coming in which have not yet been reported Campaign workers have been giving many hours of work and the commun ity will be indebted to them when the new hospital wings are built Had the campaign been put in the hands of a professional agency a good percentage of the total contributed by citizens of the county would have gone to pay canvassers to pay for bookkeeping advertising general administration of the fund and profits to the agency A chairman of the campaign announced recently that a total of has been raised includ ing personal and corporation contributions government and municipal grants still to be collected in order to reach the objective of UuO000 Until the full plans and specifications and a tender for construction are obtained thexactcOf the hospital expansion program will not be known but the hospital campaign committee is certain that the total objective of will be needed NEGLECT OLD BURYING GROUND South of the community of Sharon not far from Newmarket is an old cemetery which is being cared for by the descendants of the pioneers who were buried there and by others of the community who arc interested in preserving the burying ground An association was formed by these people for the sole purpose of restoring and maintaining the cemetery An iron fence now surrounds the property and the grave stones have been repaired The grass is kept short and the cemetery is a pleasant spot on the side of the highway Unfortunately there does not seem to be an interest in Newmarkets history as there is in that of Sharon There is a vacant plot of ground on tingle St some of the first pioneers of this district were buried Jn fact its history goes back beyond the history of Newmarket as a community All but two of the many stones which marked the graves of the have been removed and the plot of land is merely another vacant lot surrounded by subdivisions It is unfortunate that burying ground The property is owned by the Anglican church but we do not blame the officials of the church it requires money to restore and the cemetery and churches do not always money available is the responsibility of the cffiOKnuilitS1tt ciftKr- was probably there before the A started the sometUiog be done to restore thin old site make it landmark it should be USELESS there are who AfeU because by passes Newmarket they arc losing business One merchant said that Street loses out because the city people driving to their collages skirt the town They say that something should be done to bring this traffic through Newmarket It is a perfectly reasonable that tourists and highway travellers shop in thus promoting local prosperity but any effort to bring traffic through town is Contrary to modern road planning and contrary to the provinces policy of building bypass roads around builtup areas It might he said that Newmarket was the first community to have bypasses because it is not situated mi a main highway two well travelled routes provincial highway 1 along the western outskirts and Toronto and York Commission Route 12 along the eastern outskirts carry a large volume of northsouth traffic We should be thankful that all that traffic does not pass along Newmarkets Main Street Considering our narrow street little or no business would be done It is said that thousands of motorists who pass within a short distance of Newmarket never see it A few years ago the construction of the Queen Elizabeth highway brought about the same conditions at With Torontos new bypass thousands of tourists will never see Toronto With the building of highway thous ands of cottagers and tourists never see But one thing is certain people who want to do business in some of these communities now have a better opportun ity to move around in their automobiles under better traffic conditions Newmarket businessmen may worry about losing transient trade We believe they would do little business with the occupants of cars picked at ran dom out of the heavy flow of Yonge St traffic Some of the mental energy used up in worry about transient trade could be expended in more profitable ways in the trading area surrounding this community There are plenty of potential customers who are not on the move in places where personal contacts can be made Some merchants have been doing this work for a long time with outoftown fashion shows displays at fairs in the district and by using advertising media which reach these areas HUMOR IN SMALL TOWN We like to live in a small town because we know many of the people we see on the street We know the fellow who makes a homerun for the home team In a small town one makes a purchase at a store and has a friendly chat with the proprietor and hears the news of the day We like to hear old timers tell of humorous incidents that happened in the community in days gone by a small community seems to have a sense of humor of its own That is why we liked the bit of fun at Fairy Lake last Friday night when the socalled Slim made his swim in the mud and weed IS The large crowd was an indication that Newmar ket people will go along with a bit of humor As for the point about the community needing a swimming pool the humor in Slim swim did more to promote the idea thai Ait editorial lecture But ail evetit like Slim swim can only bo carried out in a small town We felt that it was keeping up Newmarkets old spirit of the past Well I suppose you are sat isfied with yourself now that you have focused all the atten tion in town on yourself I said to Slim today I should think that ego of yours is about to burst I went on Theres something about being in the limelight that goes to peoples heads Alter all you didnt make the swim across Lake you failed to complete the last feet so I dont know what you have to be so conceited about Slim leaned back in the chair put his feet up on the shiny oak top arid an El Pando cigar his favorite people what lives a drab and dull existence what dont know what it is like to be a public what Just goes about the routine mun dane duties of work you people dont understand what a problem it is to be popular Take me instance- famous see Overnight become famous Tore I made that swim was a nobody Now Ive got a lot to contend with public appearances probably auto graphs probably endorsements of products pictures radio and all that stuff probably said Slim Now you cant say that all that dont change a person a little I Jest cant on independent no Ive got me public to consider after Slim added Welt If you are to be public figure I said A REGRETTABLE PRECEDENT Congress has passed and President Eisenhower has signed a law which obliges stthwrsive groups in the to register printing presses and duplicating equipment It is not an example for Canadians either of wise legislation or effective says the trade magazine the Canadian Printer and Pub lisher product of this jaw is more likely in the to curtail the rights of people than to frustrated ytwedent it can only In encourage repressive laws it has precedents of its including the nolo ions the earlier licensing of the press by the Star Chamber Heaping con fusion upon con fusion Congress and President have ttlSo outlawed the Communist party Ho thrust beyond the pale of law by one measure subverting Communists are called upon by the other to register their printing gear Merely to tabulate the absurdities of all this would ha a sizeable task it should suffice to note the impli cation of a law which recognizes the possession and use of printing equipment by subversive groups while re quiring its registration It is like letting a killer have a gun registered of course AntiCommunist legisla tion per oven when rigorously enforced seems fated to help rather than to hinder Communism it was tried without success in Canada a generation ago Mussolini outlawed Communism only to be kilted by Commun ists whose organization was so effective that they had 10000000 votes in Italy within a couple of years his death S Hostile propaganda cannot be stilled by reducing the propagandists shout to a whisper because measures automatically magnify the importance the propaganda increase its impact and stimulate wits of its purveyors Within the taw unrestricted circulation of the New York Daily Worker and of the Communist press in Paris has shrunk greatly during the past few years In time it might be expected to shrink more but now that the New York Dally Worker has the added distinction of being illegal its messages whether delivered openly or covertly will be read with far more interest If not inhinmnt on in not of to on national It octMHoti j it- pears to me is wee re our friendship stops Ill be no party all this fuss After if it were not for rue and my column you never would have made that swim At least there have been crowds no glory no fame It was I I the most popular colum nist in this newspaper who promoted the swim and pub licized it True said Slim True But at the same time you prob ably have a lot more reader now that there tripe write in the newspaper than you did before After Have put that there column on of more people with that there swim of mine never considered that I sup pose You think ptk more readers than the I before eh She Probably haw a a Maybe youre I take it ail back Ill juts to tolerate all lawn awl publicity autograph nftra- pictures radio and ill stuff Incidentally I said many have old bean Hew now alt yet said Kope- laufiAags r No Oh safe flies We thas a the milX to the Tor onto market have had a news letter our I advise us the new or for which we are ad full price This is one of a sentence out we really do what he thing should be called It Isnt a any and it isnt an It is a spuria and ideas conceived by men it has a chance S succeed as will it it be a honest as Sw shippers the daisy and it be as and as equitable as tailing can make it It resembles a large pi in which there Isnt enough for everybody yet w invite ail the hungry people to cut their own slices that it they cut tea there wont he tor the other It is the Kind idea that in some count would by the state aiiit the but which in this Has a Chance of success is a reason wilt ore vail smply Wc covered and the ivcue and muddied i the tetter inat her and be an attempt to lo ship Ill sO reaily what produce month in the period of a vk ttifearestsi nor the toflg point te- a take to put up as evenly as cows and weal her permit the vear around a whrch can s at In each man pits a tsar of the market least in It is out that the quota system hasnt worked properly years it has become over in determin ing payments and also arrangement will the dairy of the ivailaoie- the drawbacks are as danger or the human element at trying widen their base and not concerned about their ability to maintain it and course the ship- jJing much much in market We are assured by who sftouid know that Will be easy to control the percentage the dairies will to it full price much than in the post will be to this iiuoiituuion Up to the producer to Sake a attitude a siiip move than what he mantm the year around we thai plan will assure that me surplus plant will be is- of milk There is of anything bom- olvts the base- setting two months but after the bases the iets it rather above 0Ji true surplus me gqtor should be to shi J to she szit basis shiOvf plant without affected penalized italty peiHis something ihit human devvney an of live and let live the chances this are ivy know- is ii OittS giveii Cull price that MEXICANS TUNA TROPHY -j- J I e i 1 r s tuna a ton of Sharp Tuna CM aw row taw and Wad and landed a r If

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