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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER Who Pays The Piper In less than two weeks the people of York County will go to the polls and perhaps on November we will either be satisfied that the outlook will look brighter or come to the conclusion the election and all the ballyhoo whfch preceded it was a waste of time Election promises have been coming thick anil fast as candi dates at meetings in this district and indeed across Canada have tried to gain the goodwill of their listeners by suggesting that a specific party Is the only one which can bring about higher pensions better medical cure plans lower taxes and a special tax exemption for home owners plus of course college for everyone who wants more education and an extension of education at lower levels Most candidates have decried the imminent rise in taxes assured they say by the fantastic ideas advanced by opposing parlies sug gesting by implication at that their platform wilt give all the benefits with lower taxes Almost everyone recognizes the need of adequate pensions for the aged special services for the infirm more services in other direc tions and more money for education and know too that this money has to come from the people When assessing the platforms of the contending parties analys ing the worth of the individual candidates it would be well to keep In mind that whatever wo buy November we will surely pay for it Good News For Aurora Auroras economy received a shot in the aim this week with the announcement that Consolidated Building Corp Ltd would build a million dollar shoppinghousing complex The Era welcomes this good news as such a development is some thing that has been lacking for years The CBC development will also encourage other firms hopefully industries to locate in the town The shopping centre will complement the Newmarket Plaza and bring its merchants increased business More business will come from the hundreds of shoppers who will ha the way to downtown Toronto or to mi plazas cities of Toronto Hamilton and Wind- the huge complex will lip an attractive part of the town The developer has stated that lie will keep many of the apple trees to provide a parktike setting for the complex There appears to bo no stumbling block in the way for an early start of construction A committee of Aurora council has passed the proposal on to the town planning board The board will now make sure thnt the plans conform to all bylaws Rut the hoard must make certain mat the town has adequate 8ewcr and transportation facilities to service the development The must also make certain that noon of present merchants and residents suffer from the increased traffic and population the deve lopment will bring The Hunters Mate SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Pity For The City Man This is a time of year my heart goes out to city Its a time when smalltown living is superior to that in the The fit for nothing hut slumping for Hie evening before the television set Ami what greets him The old lady wound up like a steel Spring because she hasnt seen a she knows all day theres nothing to look at but that stu pid house next door exactly like their own and the kids have been giving her hell lies stuck with it For the whole veiling thats why mi many city chaps have work shops in the basement Its much simpler to go down cellar and whack off a couple of fin gers in the power saw than listen to Mabel Life is quite different for the smalltown male He is home ink night ll lins Huh mill heres clean And Hints nil then is to it While squats in her front tier units mill in who has hit IIHT the Kids mil til III lei- Hie loaves tic than the ick ilii 1 of a full orange flame White smoke ed dies Neighbors call mil lean on rakes Women kerchiefed like gypsies heap the dry leaves high on the fire Kids avoid the subject of bedtime clash about the fire like nimble gnomes Or perhaps the whole family goes to a fowl supper What in this fro He Steps be taken to that ailiipiatC the says Must got tluie sturm windows on one of these days and goes in to the good fall smells of cold drinks and bo food finest of rural functlc crisp fall evening a drive to the church hall through a Hal loween an appclile like an alligator and that first wild whiff of turkey and dress- that makes your knees and the juircs flow free in your cheeks THIS WEEK AND NEXT by Ray Ontario Key To Outcome With an unprecedented num ber of voters still undecided how theyll cast their ballots Nov the federal campaign turned into the homestretch this week with Ontario apparently the key to the outcome The best of political assess ments rate Ontarios scats the largest provincial block in the House of Commons as the most likely for a possible major swing for or against the govern- This is based on the assump tion that Mr en trenched prairie support will come through for him and that Quebec will go at least as heavi ly for the Liberals as it did in A spate of incredible charges dominated last weeks cam paigning with the fair of the six Social Creditor grabbing major attention Charge by the Conservatives that tins affair was just another example of Liberal dishonesty followed allegation by former MP Dr Guy Marcoux that Jack Pickersgill and Joey Small wood with an assistant from financier John Doyle engi neered the which Prime Minister Pearson to form his minority administration According to Dr who is running in this election as an independent he Liberals prevailed cm the six to sign a statement of support which convinced the Governor- General that Mr Pearson would bo able to govern if Mr Die- There was clearly nothing wrong with one parly getting support from another party But Dr injected a sinister element for which there is so far no proof with his claim that was available in bribe money Despite this the parly leaders continued their crosscountry electioneering with apparent en thusiasm And this was the way the picture shaped up in the key Nova Scotia New Prince Edward Island and New foundland send a total of 33 members to the 265scat of Commons In 19G3 the ids picked off scats with going to the Conservative i Liberal sweep of Newfound- land Prince Edward Island likely break 22 for parly and theres not much like lihood of any major change New Brunswick which no stands for the Liberals In Nova Scotia however Lib hope to pick up at least two scats Liberals and Tories split here in 1962 Quebec with scats split wildly in with Liberals picking up scats held by both Tories and Snored followers Littorals took seats ami the Tories eight and after the breakup toilette ended up with 13 ami the Socreds with five Hut its Ontario which ha been tiaditinmdly Conservative since Confederation where returns are most in doubt The province swung heavily Liberal in with of the seals going to I be Pearson forces There wen- PCs and half dozen candidates also It is here that the fives hope to pick up scats to regain power The West according observers will continue to ha bare ground for the Liberals Tories hold of Manitobas seats all of Saskatchewan seats and LI of the 17 in Alber ta In BC the NDP on top in 19G3 with nine seats while seven went Liberal four PC and two The Yukon and Northwest both considered safe If he Liberals are to get a majority it will have Ontario Quebec alone could do the trick but the result would be a government with than half its seats from French Canada and its doubtful if such government could long a in view of the present felt by much of English Canada over Quebec Lesser Of Two Evils OTTAWA Right now enumerators are settling over the landscape legi timize Canadian voters for the fifth time in eight years They will says The Financial Post register authenticate and onto again enfranchise million poison in Canada Australia officials discover and fine nually an average of their fellow countrymen in each electoral district who have slipped through the em net Our political leader nay lip the of