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es from the ors Notebook MEMBER We are reading booklets on the Alberta oil fields this week so that we will be prepared to leave town and look for a job when this weeks issue hits the street For the first time since he purchased this newspaper the new owner Mr Tiny Cathers asked that we do him a favor He wanted big pictures on the opening of the York Curling rink Saturday It being the bosss pet community project we really scurried around taking pictures of Major Lex Macken zie hurling the first stone and of the Aurora and Newmarket town councils ready to do battle on the curling ice We had enough shots to fill a of pages Meanwhile back at the photo studio one of our helpers de posited the film in a cardboard box ready for developing in the dark room at the newspaper of fice There was one catch The cardboard box was not light- proof and all the film was The Aurora Banner was From the Files of to have received copies of the prints too We had a hard time convinc ing our photographer that he need not resign It was just one of those bad breaks and we as sured him that we would take the consequences Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 1895 Counci I Appoints A Lidd I e As The Building Inspector I Published every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription for two years for one year in advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Otwa Albert was appointed vote on the motion on Feb It permanent building inspector for when it had been defeated on Feb Newmarket by council on day Feb His appointment was was explained by Engineer opposed by four members be- that an absentee from cause they felt applications should lhc meeting at which the motion It was a friendly gathering at the York Curling Club opening No doubt the club will develop new friendships among district people and in particular form a friendly link between Aurora and Newmarket people Speaking of AuroraNewmar ket relations the good ones seem to be developing rapidly Along John E Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Womens Editor George Haskctt Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE be received for the position after it had been advertised Mr work was comm ended by council and those oppos ing the resolution said they had nothing against Mr per sonally They disagreed with the procedure followed in filling the post Councillor George whose motion to advertise the position was defeated questioned the legality of the other motion was defeated could reintroduce it in less than the sixweek per iod It could be seconded by any one wh did not second the orig inal one he added Reeve and Deputy- Reeve presented the motion to appoint Mr inspector Mr was absent from last weeks meet ing dont think this is the right with curling new in- THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN i crests have formed with formation of a junior of commerce in town th help of It soers IhW ether tr towns ocUl levels looked vv for ivw 25 and 50 Years Ago the Mr Robert C Morrison of Ontario Equitable Life attended a conference at head office Wa terloo during Monday and Tuesday of this week Mr and Mrs Art Felt and Jack of attended the hockey game Wednesday even ing and called on her mother and sister Mrs M and Mrs Mrs J Winter is spending a few days in Toronto and attend ed the M t h r and Daughter banquet held at Baptist Church Friday evening of last week Mrs Teasdale entertained her Junior class of girls of Trinity United SS at a toboggan party last Saturday afternoon 25 Mrs Frank Williamson from Sutton spent last week with her daughter Mrs Alfred Kelly Newmarket 25 Mr and Mrs Will and Allen spent last weekend with Mr and Mrs Molyneaux Mr and Mrs James are staying in Los Angeles for the winter visiting friends re turning in April via the West 25 Mrs J Mortson spent last weekend with Mrs Smith at Lake Wilcox Mrs O P Hamilton accom panied the eight children sent by the Lions Club to the eye spe cialist on Tuesday years ago February The College is Coming It is quite evident from the tone of Rev F Cornells remarks at the banquet on Tuesday evening that operations will begin the coming summer to erect the new Pickering College in Newmar ket 50 Mr Sherman Fletcher and friend from Toronto spent Sun day at home Miss Maggie Osborne of Tor onto was home over Sunday Mr and Mrs John Wright were visiting Mr over Friday 50 Mr and bride of Kes wick were visiting Mr over Friday night 50 Mr and Mrs Maw gave a pro gressive Lost Heir party on Wednesday night Mrs Charles Lundy gave a tea last Friday afternoon to a num ber of elderly ladies 50 Miss Sarah Belfry of Hamil ton is spending two or three weeks with Mrs S Cane 50 Mr Lemon and wife of visited his cousin Mrs G Vernon on Saturday 50 Mr Wooding of Sault Marie Mich dropped off the cars here on Monday to spend the day with his sister prior to his return home by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The rapid changes in farming and the changes in equipment we arc required lo keep up with arc some of the difficulties which cost us a lot of money If you want a fascinating past- time a sort of winter evening parlor game to amuse you and drive you to watch TV just write down the amount of money spent to buy equipment or build equipment which turns out to be a failure or some thing which the farming busi ness grew past Some of this equipment is Still used and some does a pretty good job But if one had all the money spent over the years on ideas would it not have been easier to get the ma chines today to do a job Of course one has to write down these expenses and in some cases straight losses for ex perience and experimentation For an industry that is suffer ing chronically from lack of capital and lack of credit it is a thought worth remembering because the problems the big Ones are still with us Take for example haying As we keep rolling out bale after bale of good green hay off the dryer we cannot help feeling that it may be a solution that is worth looking into cost- wise There were other dry ing experiments that were rea sonably successful Many peo ple have managed to dry hay with fans without heat and get fairly good results year in and year out We once saw a setup in a conventional barn that combin ed a sling and pulley and a set of ducts which was In use for years and worked Well It had also a added to it arid while it was un doubtedly hard work to take the hay out of the mow there hard work in haying some where in any case know of wagon drying which have cost thous ands upon thousands of dollars and the elaborate buildings that produced good hay but REGULATIONS NOT ENFORCED Two district dairies have been refused certificates to continue operations in with substandard equip ment and plant routines Yet the dairies continue to oper ate the sanitary division of the Ontario department of health has not closed the dairies Apparently the dairies have not rectified their plant conditions otherwise they would been issued the new certificates The York County Health Unit has done its part in reporting the situation to the department and to the municipal repre sentatives It has been explained that the local Unit has no power to enforce legislation where dairies are con cerned While members of Newmarket town council do not seem to see the point it is clear to us that council immedi ately should have registered a complaint to the Ontario department of health The Health Unit would not tell council what to do but in our opinion it already has clari fied the situation for council adequately In the interest of the people it represents council should request that the department enforce its regulations It was suggested Monday night that council first find out more about the situation Members of council not being dairy inspect ors this hardly makes sense The local health authorities the only ones equipped to judge have declared that the dairies routines and equipment are not up to standard Obviously there is either a danger or potential dan ger to public health If such were not the case there would be no department regulations and inspection con cerned with this case What we fail to understand is why the department of health has not acted and why the town council has failed to complain to the department as the Health Unit already has done THE CREST MAY JOIN CELEBRATIONS Messrs Murray and Donald Davis and their sister Miss Barbara of The Crest theatre have been invited to take part in Newmarkets centennial celcbrat- are rather prohibitive in cost these days As somebody who has made at least as many mistakes as most people and probably more we hesitate to point the finger and say this is the solution But what we can say is that this solution comes to crips with at least one of the problems Drying hay with heat will dry it regardless of weather conditions What it docs not do of course is cut down on labor The question is is it possible to do this too Well the cutting baling and loading end of the business is the same as before and since it is possible to use a chute which will carry the bales from the baler to the wagon to that extent it is an improvement on handling The extra labor comes in when the drier must be loaded In our setup the hay is car ried from the drier to the barn on an elevator so the only extra labor is the loading of the drier This is a slow and hard job and while it is down from the wagon and away from it rather than up it is the weight of the bales which creates the prob lem even with a shorter bale The other difficulty of course is the cost of the fuel The de preciation of the machine and other equipment amounts to about to per ton and the cost of fuel runs around making a total of about We think that wo got about eight percent protein for it or about pounds per ton or top quality protein for about three cents per pound which is cheaper than any protein that can be bought on the market today As well it saves all the other elements that are import ant in hay While one must be very cau tious on this business we would like to suggest that this time any further improvement will have to come in the actual tech nical details of the job as well as some help in handling the heavy bales but the idea of dry ing hay with heat is here to stay they are operating at present the only permanent leg itimate theatre in the whole of Canada They chose a difficult task to form a permanent theatre in Canada others have tried and failed and in their third year it appears that The Cre3t is here to stay Newmarket can be proud of their accomplishments CAN HELP EMPLOYMENT SITUATION The Employment conditions in the area serviced by the Newmarket National Employment Service have reached their lowest ebb The normal winter slackness in industries plus a severe winter has caused considerable unemployment in this area The number of persons draw ing benefits has jumped from on December 1 to approximately on February 1 1957 The pro spects of employment are only fair The Unemployment Insurance Commission is spon soring a nationwide campaign asking all home owners and industries alike to check over their homes or places of business to see if those muchneeded renovations could not be completed now when there are so many skilled tradesmen unemployed It would be easier to obtain com petent tradesmen now rather than compete with the con tractors for their services during the spring and summer months There are now over 1000 persons seeking work in this area the largest group of course being construction workers such as carpenters bricklayers and laborers As a breakdown in the average agegrouping of these un employed persons we note that over 50 per cent are be tween and years of age WHAT PROCEDURE On Newmarket town council procedure we can dis agree with Mayor We are challenged by the mayors outburst this week Never mind parliament ary procedure This is the procedure of the Newmarket building in- way to do it charged Mr since it had been defeat- ton He asked Ihe mayor if he last week considered the action in keeping He asked the ruling on the time with parliamentary procedure limit before a defeated motion Never mind parliamentary can he reintroduced and was told procedure retorted the mayor by the mayor that it was six This is the procedure of the weeks He asked how they could Newmarket council CMHC Armitage Heights Houses Are Now Available For Purchase The houses in Armitage Heights built years ago to provide low rental housing for veterans under the Central Housing and Mortgage Corpora tion are available for purchase The present tenants will have the first chance to buy the houses which require a 750 down payment Prices for the houses were an nounced at council meeting on Monday Feb They are bungalow one and one- half storey with front entrance 8590 one and onehalf storey with side entrance 8490 The CMHC set the prices A rebate of Si will be received by the tenants who have rented the houses so that a house cost ing him 7240 will actually cost 6240 it was explained Month ly payments to carry the proper ties will be approximately over a year period Councillor Bert Kent claimed the prices were too high He told council that close to in rent had been collected on each house since it was built Mayor Herbert Gladman dis agreed with Mr Kent saying that the houses had cost 7200 to build years ago and that the present tenants were being offered an extremely fair price His views were supported by the majority of council One of the veterans occupy ing a house can purchase it for 6240 and after two years if he has a clear deed could turn around and resell it for or more considering todays prices argued Councillor Glad stone We were very glad to havo this extra housing for the boys when they came back from overseas added the reeve He explained that a special tax agreement had been reached so that the rents on the houses could be kept low The mayor agreed adding that the tax concessions in Heights had to be considered to to get a clear picture of the situ ation A payment was made to council in lieu of regular taxes LIBRARY GRANT Payment of 1000 on account of the grant was authorized by town council to the Newmarket Library board The board request ed the grant to meet operating costs and promised the budget would be presented to council in the near future ions They have been asked to present a play on the council He was referring to what has been pretended night of the celebrations in August At a meeting t4 bo policy preventing a defeated resolution from being the Newmarket Chamber of Commerce last Thursday night it was decided to support efforts to bring this unique theatre to Newmarket The Davis brothers and their sister Barbara Chilcott arc natives of Newmarket Mr Murray Davis president of The Crest when approached on the subject said that his organization will be happy to cooperate in every way He added however that he will not be able to give a definite answer until March The reason for this delay is that there is a chance that The Crest group will be fulfilling an en gagement outside of Canada during August of this year While we do not wish them to miss outstanding opportun ities elsewhere this summer we hope that this energetic and talented group of Newmarket people will be able to do us this honor in August To the best of our knowledge reintroduced for six weeks Having attended town council meetings longer than any person now represent ing the taxpayers since 1917 we recall many little incidents in the past We recall that a former mayor made up that policy on the spur of the moment We are positive that no bylaw covers the policy for reintroduc ing a defeated motion Council procedure is outdated and cumbersome In fact there is no item on the agenda where members can bring up new business they must do it in a roundabout way through enquiries As for Mr ex planation that an absentee from the meeting at which a motion is defeated could reintroduce it baffles us It has never come up against the fake six weeks delay policy at any time in the past ten years On Dew Line Construction OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY THE FUNCTIONS OF THE OPPOSITION A commentator on the opening week of the new session of parliament mentioned the proposal made by the lead er Mr and went on to remark thai Mr perhaps having a better under standing of the functions of the Opposition made no proposals on behalf of the That opinion is a totally erroneous conception of the function of the Opposition in our system of gov ernment if Mr Dicfcnbaker and his Party adopt that view of their duties they can give up hope of gaining office unless the Government should make some incredible blunder Admittedly it is one of the functions of an Opposition to criticize any sins of the Govern ment whether of omission or commission and to oppose ev ery measure and every part of every measure which in their opinion is not in the interest of the community But to oppose everything the Government dots or proposes is wrong in principle and will prove injurious in prac tice When the Government or one of its Ministers does some thing that wins the almost una nimous plaudits of the free world as Mr Pearson did in the UN Assembly it would be good politics as well as good sports manship to recognize the achievement and to congratulate the Government No amount of skill and vigor displayed in mere opposition will win elections If the Op position takes the view that its duty is to oppose everything the average voter has no way of knowing which measures it really considers bad He is apt to say The PCs have been a good Opposition I am going to vote to keep them in Opposi tion Today the people expect the Government to make the econ omic system work to try to prevent unemployment and to make strenuous efforts to bring it to an end when it does occur This changed attitude towards the responsibility of government was best seen in the United States When the election came around the Opposition Republican pointed out quite truthfully that the depression had already lasted far longer than any previous depression in history that there were still se veral million people unemploy ed and that practically no re covery had occurred until after the major New Deal legislation had been declared unconstitu tional The voters would scarcely listen to the Republican argu ments The standard reply was At least Roosevelt is trying he is doing something You Re publicans did nothing Roose velt was elected with a bigger majority before This new demand for govern ment action w a s noticeable in many other countries Freeen terprise parties almost disap peared Practically all of ope came to he ruled by parlies hostile to parties that proposed to socialize indus try or to regiment it Even in Canada the over whelming victories of the Social Creditors in Alberta and the in Saskatchewan showed that the people were ready for drastic changes when advo cated with sufficient energy and conviction Clearly there is no future for a party with a merely negative policy The future lies with the party that can convince the pub lic that it has best positive program The voters of course judge by results perhaps more than by programs A Govern ment that goes to the people during a depression is generally defeated During boom times victory usually goes to what ever government is in power And such action is not altogeth er illogical There is least a presumption that the policies of the Government especially of the Dominion Government are sound if the country is prosper ous Foolish policies would end the prosperity It is a plain fact however that our present prosperity is essentially temporary We are riding on the crest of a long wave of investment based on the discovery of one new miner al resource after another bring ing in foreign capital by the bil lion Investment in was over billion of our gross national product by far the highest on record In the na ture of things that process can not be permanent When it stops when employment falls Off many people will want a change To which party will they turn Tom Second St Newmarket who has just returned after two years service on the DEW Line chain of Arctic radar stations holds surveyors pole at the top of an Arctic mountain In this photo he is at an elevation of 2700 feet on the Arctic const He was general superintendent of construction for a number of radar stations strung across a certain length of Arctic shoreline The major portion of the construction work completed on the DEW Line Mr is at pre sent waiting his next assignment from his firm the Foundation Com pany of Canada Ltd The do not seem to real- be that their position is altoge ther different from that of the Opposition Party in Great Bri tain or in the United States In Great Britain there are clear differences between the Conser vatives and the Labor Party In the United States the major parties have very similar poli cies hut no other party has a single representative either House of Congress In both countries there is really only one party to which the voters can turn when they w ant a change The Canadian situation is dif ferent The policies of the two old parties hero are very similar as in the US but the other par ties and are not negligible They have been mak ing gains even in good times Each of them has a clearcut program rooted in the firm be lief that prosperity can never be more than temporary under our present economic and finan cial system If tht expect to win votes when the people want a change they will have to con vince the voters that their pro gram will mean a change This photo was taken last summer when Mr was working at one of the stations A student at St Michael Coll ege University of Toronto Pat is shown with some of the workers on the project All travel between station was by air had to take any plane that was available and sometimes that was at 2 oclock in the morning he said Winds in winter were as high as miles an hour Below are Mr and two Eskimo The slate is the servant not the master of the people state w their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international ft and national issues it is not the function of the state io assume the of those activities which rc3t on individual choice