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Taxes Sli In East Gwillimbury A beech tree a gift from the Horticultural Society to the Prince Charles school is planted at a on Monday Doing the bullwork are Eric Holmes son of Mr and Mrs Christopher Holmes Bob Williams son of Mr and Mrs Ted Williams and Ken Sargent Jr In the background is Principal William Blockshaw the boys teacher Arthur Lloyd chairman of the school board Supervising Principal A Jackson and the ladies of the Juvenile Committee Mrs Anton Mrs Ronald and Mrs Herbert Milter Photo by In spite of the best efforts of the East Gwillimbury council taxes will be a little higher this year The total budget Is compared with 195257 last year The township rate is down half a mill but the overall pic ture is up because of higher school and county rates The school rate has increased from to and the count v rate is up to 36000 The other major in crease Is 7000 in the debenture rate The actual increase will vary In the school sections some having dropped to cents per assessed while others have increased as much as Hie township road rate the township general rate and the relief and hospital rate which the council controls have drop ped a half mill The council has no control over the school high school and county rates where the increases have taken place debentures levied this year on No and Queens- Ville fire hall account for de benture increase and the rest of the Increase is in the school sec tions The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday May Page Trees Prince Charles School The Newmarket Horticultural Society contributed six trees which were planted the Prince Charles school ground on May The ceremony in which members of the society the Home and School association and school staff took part was to have been on Arbor Day but that was postponed because of weather The decision to plant the trees was made by Mrs Anton Mrs Herbert Miller and Mrs Ronald the Juven ile Committee of the Horticul tural Society The trees were obtained by Rodger Caldwell chairman of the Civic Improve ment committee who had the trees dug out of the bush and brought to the school ground The planting was supervised by William principal of Prince Charles school Mr Blackshaw and pupils of grade eight dug the holes and mixed a of top soil peat moss and fertilizer During the ceremony two poems on trees were read by Margaret Hayes of Mr and Mrs Orley Hayes and by Sandy Constable son of Mrs Margaret Constable Mrs told child ren about the root system of the beech tree and how long it would be before they could expect to eat their lunches under the tree Harold Jackson supervising principal of Newmarket schools spoke briefly on the importance of trees for conservation and the part they played in Canadas economy CHANGE DATE The Newmarket and District association for Retarded Child ren will meet in the school ford St tonight May at oclock Installation of officers will be conducted Vacancies exist on the ex ecutive and volunteers are need ed to assist with the work The meeting is open to the public Attention is called to the change of date to May Seven Share 1000 Prize At Newmarket Legion Draw lightmans Ltd Around comer Main south Tremendous savings on Hens Womens Childrens clothing and footwear 1 or Money Refunded Five On Police Force At Lake During Summer At a meeting held late in April the North township council engaged school teacher Donald as an assistant constable for the months of July and August under supervision of Chief William Hill The resolution also called for Mr to he engaged by Chief Hill at other times when necessary Former Councillor Charles Richardson was engaged as a fulltime constable at an earlier meeting and his duties are to commence on or about next Wednesday May This brings the strength of the force up to five during the summer months YOUR CHAMBER OF COM MERCE IS BUILDING YOU BETTER COMMUNITY NEW CONSTABLE FOR SUTTON FORCE Four applications were receiv ed recently by Suttons Acting Chief of Police Brian Stephens in response to a request for another constable for the force Of the four Warren Lyons Sutton was accepted Mr Lyons appointment as a police constable is effective as of next Wednesday May This was decided at Monday nights council meeting The 1250 draw of Branch of the Canadian Legion was made at a buffet supper held at the Newmarket Legion hall on Friday May Members of the Legion Ladies Auxiliary catered for the supper Eighteen people won prizes seven of them sharing the major one for 1000 These seven de cided to split the 1000 evenly when their names were all that remained rather than having one winner with the others being eliminated They are Ted Dun can Doug Bress- Norman A D Cameron all of Newmarket A 306 Tor onto and Len Ontario St Toronto The staff of Newmarket Motors Ltd held the ticket on the 100 prize Five people won 20 each They are Frank Kirkman Cecil Bill Koshel Bur gess and C St John Grant Winters and Ron Bress- shared one ticket for a 10 prize The four remaining prizes went to Larry Bell Ed die Hamalianeh and Cameron of Aurora INVITATIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEPTION CARDS THANK YOU CARDS A Man Called Peter A m4k l WANT BETTER ROAD FOR SIXTH OF KING township council has written a letter to the Ontario department of highways slating that the roadway to he construct ed and improved on fifth eon cession of King by the depart ment to be the same standard as the sixth concession roadway rebuilt by the department The fifth concession road council points out is a heavily travelled highway The Informa tionreceived by council from department indicated that a road of lower standard is considered MOUNT PLEASANT The Mount Pleasant Womens Guild will meet at the home of Mrs Bernard Davidson on Tues day May 15 at 230 pm A large crowd attended Mr Vern Yorkes sale on Tuesday The Rev Joseph of Toronto will take the services at Mount Pleasant again next Sun day Congratulations to Miss Freda and Mr Tom who were united in marriage last Saturday evening at Sutton manse v- You are cordially invited to HAS TAXI LICENSE AT JERSEY RIVER James Taylor of the Rain bow Gardens restaurant Jersey River district was granted per mission by North township council at this regular meeting to apply for a taxi license Granting the license will be subject to approval by Police Chief William Hill Mr Taylor plans to operate a onecar busi ness for the present and this will be conducted from his present location at the River Township Sets Tax Rate At 50 Mills ReAssessment Cuts Rate A mill rate of was struck by township council when it met for its regular monthly meeting on Monday evening May At a session which lasted into the early hours of Tuesday morn ing council worked on the township budget and finally ar rived at a figure of 50 mills for thy taxes This is a drop of mills from last years rate of township underwent a program during the past year according to the Provincial Assessment Manual RECEIVE PETITIONS Two petitions were received from town ratepayers by coun cil on May One contained the names of percent of the resi dents on the south side of Mill ard Ave Lot to in the subdivision requesting sidewalks The other petition requested sewers for Dixon Blvd from Don Mor to Eagle St It had the signatures of percent of the residents Both projects will be handled under the local im provements featuring PftttiTUgg LET US ASSIST YOU WITH YOUR PLANS fgfcjrt row Wading I with to WE ALSO HAYS NEWMARKET ERA AND EXPRESS Main St Phone To Pave Metropolitan Expand Keswick School North Township Council Monday accepted the tender of Bell and Company for the issuance of de for the amount of 105- at a price of 97 being 60000 for paving rightofway I Old Metropolitan Railway and 45000 for the addition to the school at Keswick S No PLEASANTVILLE The I will meet on Tuesday May at tho home of Mrs Don Roll call Name the first school you attended The girls club family fun night at school on Thursday May proved a huge success Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr Earl Toole included Mr and Mrs A Forbes and Don na Mr and Mrs Hancock Sharon and Wayne all of Mr and Mrs had Sunday tea with Mr and Mrs Tom Sheridan Newmarket On Saturday night May several neighbors and relatives surprised Mrs Carl Greenwood by calling at her home the occa sion being a birthday annivers ary NEW SPEED TRAP IN AREA The police of North Gwil township has added a new type of speed trap to its equipment and over last tabbed motorists driving six miles or more over speed limit of miles per hour This new trap is to be kept in use whenever possible particu larly in the congested areas Propose Sign On St A letter from the Chamber of Commerce to council concerning the placing of a sign on St frontage to advertise town was referred to the Plan ning and Industrial committee The letter stated that the Cham ber understood permission had been received for such a sign That is not correct said Reeve Edward believe they are confused with another sign that was on the roof of a garage at Yonge and Eagle There has been some talk 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