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Newmarket Era and Express, 6 Jun 1957, p. 19

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Newmarket Era and Express Thursday Jane Install The Second Well For King City Waterworks The first major step In adding a new well to the King City wat erworks system has been inaug urated by village trustees Auth ority has been given to Proctor and engineers to pro ceed with the well and set up test pumping The finished well without a permanent pump would cost an estimated while the whnle project is estimated at 22000 trustees learned from Internation al Water Supply Ltd- The well can be started by June 7 and rea dy for pumping on July The test hole located last fall near the source of the water supply of the existing well in the valley North Keele St had a pre liminary flow of 200 gallons to the minute The original well yields gal- Ions which is insufficient to meet the demand of the increasing nu mber of consumers who use gallons daily at the peak thus straining the capacity to the point of emergency when a prolonged drought season prevails One third of the water reserve is be ing used now The present well will be pumped out Grass Fires Costly Since March King City fire department has earned 915 for the village from fire outside the village boundaries Of this mount is billed to Vaughan township for puting out a car fire on the Britton Farm It has cost King township for the King area grass fires this amount goes to King City for ser vices The most costly grass fire was one that involved a King town ship bush between the sixth line and highway in May King City fire department would re ceive 285 on this in addition there was five hours labor by Aurora fire department at the same fire The township will also pay la bor for using the township bull dozer in the bush to make a safe ty ring around smouldering stumps which continued to threat en the bushland and private pro perties Village trustees had set an estimate revenue of for the year from outside fires An outside fire alarm telephone on Kihg St opposite the bank will be discontinued by King City trustees and a conventional type phone will be installed in the fire hall on St south Regulat ions will be put on long distance calls See Competition In Scout Talent Night About numbers have been lined up by Emerson Wallace en tertainment chairman for First King Scout talent night tomorrow June in King City Memorial Park pavilion The variety is of good calibre For example Walter Miller a new resident living in the form er Dent house King City is a clever pantomine actor There will be a York music festival win ner a guitarist from Schomberg as well as a variety trio dance band piano instrumentalists voc alists and others Schomberg Aurora Oak Ridges King City have represent ations in the contest Another break has come to the Scout group committee The col ored lights and barn dance stage setting used in the pavilion by King Square Dancing club on June will be left in place for talent night through the kind of fices of the dance club and Stan Roots Scouts will conduct the re freshment booth Canada has eight rivers of more than miles in length Sitting Bull chief and medi cine man of the Sioux Indians fled to Canada with about members of his tribe following the massacre of General Custer and his regiment Five years later a treaty of surrender allow ed return of the Sioux to the United Stales Ex Warden JACK IN NORTH YORK CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE ROOMS Main St Newmarket Phone TW 52639 Yonge N Richmond Hill Phone TU Published by North York Liberal Assoc Tiny Cathers Meets Electorate In Vaughan An informal reception was given in Maple Community Cen tre May 29 for C A Cathers York North federal Conservative candidate and his wife Vaughan Township Reeve John Perry was chairman introducing Richard Sutton member in the provincial legislature for York and Mr In a brief talk the candidate touched on major points in his one of which Is the farm problem The Ontario farmer feels he Is the forgotten man he said asking how the farmer can the Liberal government at Ottawa knowing his farming costs have risen per cent since and his pro ducts have decreased in value per cent York North representation at Ottawa has been sincere but has not been aggressive Mr Gathers stated He said that If he is elected on June I can do something for the riding that hasnt been done before His policy is for increased old age pension income Had Ottawa been sincere he said the nen- sion could have been raised from to 60 out of the half billion dollars surplus still leaving a surplus of 30 million In Ot tawas tight money policy the government aided to stop infla tion when results could have been produced by spending less The small business man and the building business with mortgages hard to get arc the people who are hit by Ottawa tight money policy he said Mr Cathers wants to see the straight twoparty system for good government to get away from splinter parties He be lieves a government 22 years in power is not good for any party neither is it good for Canada The large majority of the Con servative government in On tario is not a good thing The government he said is good but it is too powerful As principal sneaker Mr Sut ton dealt with DominionProvin cial tax arrangements Under the British North America act the Federal government and provinces share equally In On tario he said which raised million dollars in personal in come tax it received 10 milhor back which is per cent On tario raised nearly in of the total corporation tax and received nine per rent or million Of the inheritance tax Ontaric raised 4fi million dollars and re ceived per cent hack He said Premier Frost and the provincial treasurer Dana Porter asked Ot tawa for the ratio of 15 IS am per cent respectively As a result Mr Sutton con that the total of mil ion dollars Ontario received car is not enough to carry on OBITUARY William Windas The sudden death of William King City In his ear was caused by an ome late Tuesday night May Mis death affected the commun ity and his many friends in township where he had rmed until his retirement to City early in The funeral service was held on Friday at the Thompson home Aurora Interment was in Maple cemetery Rev King City and Rev Villiam Wilson Lansing a rela tive of the deceased officiated Hie were George and truce Albert Mitchell Mclcnd nephews of Mrs Joe Gibson Toronto an old friend and Frank Maple also a relative Having lived in Vaughan most of life Mr Windas had a large circle of friends He was an active worker In Tester United church and was a former official for many years until he moved King City where he earned the highest respect lie had not been well for a couple of weeks and had visited his physician the day before his death He was doing his land scape gardening work as usual work he enjoyed doing so much for Kingcrafts and the Anglican church when he suddenly be came ill Surviving are his widow the former Alice anil his daughter Sadie Mrs Frank Barnes A Karen Barnes a sister Mrs Gertrude Ireland Toronto and two bro thers Tom and Jack of Vaughan also survive King City Krttlcby Anniversary Rev Mr was the supply preacher at Bethel Baptist church King City Eman uel church Kettlcby and Second King at on June Kettlcby congregation will hold its anniversary on June with the other congregations foregoing services in preference for the Kettleby Sunday Recently King township coun cil gave three rendintfs to a by law prohibiting obstruction of ditches and culverts upon high ways and to regulate the obstruct ion encumbering injuring and fowling of highways The pur pose the bylaw is to enforce thtt use of 15inch galvanized cul verts leading to driveways from the the million dollar long term program in Ontario The pro vince he said should receive an additional million dollars an nually Ontario said Mr Sutton is the hub of this continent its future is assured but with tremendous expansion in population and in dustrialization come proportion ate problems He said real estate is carryinf the burden The problem he thinks is serious and needs study as it affects the personal pocket book I hope he said the Conservative representation at Ottawa will be doubled after June and that these men will see our taxes arc not raised The municipal grants in were million dollars and in will be 213 million This is not nearly enough Mr Sutton declared Ontario had to impose some million in taxes all because the province could not gel a satisfactory agreement with Ottawa A twocent gasoline tax was imposed two per cent was put on corporation plus a logging and mining tax The long term committments subject to the Gordon Commission are a chal lenge he said The Conservatives gave birth to this country and on June we will sec a rebirth Reeve John Perry said Maple and district ladies served refreshments at the close of the reception County Junior Farmers Hold Livestock Judging Competition WORTH OF GIRLS BEST FRIEND i PRESIDENTS CONFERENCE Attending the north area pre sidents conference of York-Sim- Home and School council on Monday night were Mrs Peter of the JLR Bell Home and School Mrs Ronald and Mrs Watson both of the Prince Charles Home and School and Mrs Nelson Ion and Mrs John both of the Alexander Muir Home and School The meeting was held at the home of the area vicepresident Mrs Jaques Holland Landing RECEIVE AWARDS Karen Peat won the silver pin for perfect attendance and general proficiency when the Ju nior of St Pauls Anglican church held its closing meeting on Tuesday June The girls and their leaders met at the par ish hall Games were enjoyed before lunch was served Second prize went Sherry Haskell and third was won by Susan Truster whose embroidery work for the year received high praise On Saturday June 36 Junior Farmers from all parts of York County met for their annual Live stock Judging Competition In this competition competitors oend the morning judging eight classes of stock including three dairy two swine and one sheep class and in the afternoon give reasons for to contest judges on each type of stock Senior Champion and winner of the Hon Geo S Henry Shield with a score of 557 out of a poss ible 600 was Bruce Fieldhouse while the Junior Champion and winner of the Col Geo Little Shield with a score of 537 was Leonard Mortson Seventeen novices took part in the competition and the winner of the CNE Shield for novices took part in the com petition and the winner of the CNE Shield for novices was Bar ry Little with a score of Winner of the United Nations Tour a trip to New York and UN Headquarters was Jas Qucensville This award is based on allround activity in Junior Farmer and work as well as in the judging competit ion The winner is pastpresident of the Sharon Junior Farmers is presently on the county executive and has been active in Junior Farmer projects and Club activities and is a noted Junior Livestock showman Individual trophies on the var ious classes of stock were won by the following contestants John Gardhouso Trophy for beef judging Bill Newmarket Gordon Duncan Tro phy for dairy judging Jim Mort Bros Trophy for swine judging Lar ry Bax ter Trophy for sheep judging Mactaggart The winning Junior team of three boys was coached by Nor man Watson Woodbridge and the InterTownship Trophy was won by Vaughan township The evening concluded with the Awards Banquet at the King George Hotel Newmarket the chairmanship of Anne Con stable vicepresident of York County Junior Farmers where the boys were joined by girls of the clubs who had held their Achievement Day in the Newmarket town hall A dance held in Sharon Hall com pleted a successful program The competition was under the direction of Cockburn and K Pearson of the Department of Agriculture Newmarket as sisted by Alex McTaggart Sidney McDonald and Angus Morton ions Tilts charming dress which comes in junior sizes Is fash ioned of a striped silk and cotton blend The obi sash can be tied in back or at the side front The background color is white with alternating stripes of lilac and yellow Its a num ber that is pretty enough for a bridesmaid perfect for proms and a surefire success for sum mer dates THE FUTURE IS YOURS VOTE SOCIAL CREDIT For information write to the So cial Credit Association of Canada Ave Ottawa Shop At JOHN MORNINGS DRUG STORE St Aurora For Friendly Personal Service Telephone PA AURORA KING CITY FIRST SCOUT TROOPi TALENT NIGHT FRIDAY JUNE PM MEMORIAL PARK PAVILION If diamonds are a girls best friend then pretty Sheila Hillings of Toronto has so many friends she couldnt begin to count them all There are about of them here and theyre valued at In dustrial diamonds such as these are used for diamond drilling and brazing and they are found in streams and In rocks in Africa They will be displayed at the annual convention of the Canadian Diamond Drilling as sociation In Toronto The dia monds on the cutting tips of drills bored through 200 miles of rock sand and mud in Canada last year Total number of certified illnesses reported by federal civil servants in 195455 was This resulted in days of illness or approxi mately eight days per year per employee LEONARD R ROSENBERG CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT AURORA ONTARIO RICHMOND HILL ARENA ANNUAL MONSTER BIG LUCKY DRAW FIRST PRIZE 1200 SECOND PRIZE 600 THIRD PRIZE 300 All proceeds to Lions Club welfare work FREE PARKING ADMISSION 50 cents I

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