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WED JAN 12 1966 End The Confusion Newmarkets bylaw which prohibits some stores from doing busi ness on Monday is unfair and discriminatory It should be amended There are some merchants who say that they want the Monday bylaw kept in its present form because it gives them and their staff a twoday week end The twoday week end is an accepted practice in this part of Canada and The Era does not suggest that Newmarket their staffs should not be able to enjoy this practice Some Newmarket stores can open Mondays and their owners and their staffs can enjoy twoday week ends Some Newmarket stores ARE open Mondays and owners and staffs ARE enjoying twoday week ends The twoday week end is possible for store owners who are open Monday by a rescheduling of staff to permit some to have Saturday and Sunday off and others to have Sunday and Monday off The Monday closing bylaw is not only unfair to the merchant it is unfair to the shopper Many housewives find themselves on a Monday with a little time on their hands to shop or they find thai they need some article Whore do they go They must go to a store that through a loophole in the bylaw is allowed to remain open or go out of town They cant go out of town because in most case they have no transportation For them to shop at a store that is allowed to remain open on a Monday through a loophole in the bylaw is unfair to the merchant who is forced to close The present bylaw is unfair to the merchants who is forced to be closed Monday because he cant do business on any day he chooses If a merchant wants to close his store on a certain day he has every right to do so But nobody should tell him what day he must close But as the bylaw now stands some merchants ARE told that they must close while others can stay open Mondays This is where the by law is discriminatory because You can buy a watch on Monday but NOT at a jewellery store You can buy a stove on Monday but NOT at an appliance store on Monday but NOT at a hardware store Monday but NOT at a clothing store You can buy You can buy clothes And the list could go The present Monday closing bylaw was passed in At that time it was necessary for council to have an application from three- quarters of certain classes of stores to close on a certain day Because there were a number of businesses that were one of a kind in town the bylaw did not affect them Since 19B1 a number of businesses have located in town to which the bylaw does not apply This is where the loopholes showed up The Monday closing bylaw affects businesses classed as furniture stores dry goods shoe shops gift and novelty mens clothing child rens clothing jewellery sporting goods chain shops electrical appliances hardware ladies wear barber shops and Grocery stores CAN stay open Monday but most CHOOSE to The Ontario Municipal Act was changed last year to permit a council to decide whether or not certain classifications of stores can remain open The time is now ripe for the merchants of Newmarket to let council know bow they feel about the present Monday closing There are some merchants on Newmarkets Main St who want to remain closed on Mondays and some who want to do business on that day There are some merchants at the Newmarket Plaza who want to stay closed on Monday and some merchants who want to open their doors The time has come for the towns merchants to gel together and give council some direction on this important question The time has come to end the confusion in the shoppers mind and to amend an unfair and imiiutory bylaw Now ear this If you want to keep Jack Frost from nipping at your horses ear then please your pony with this elegant set of ear muffs and this advice comes right from the horses mouth SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley The Sturdy Ones Remain the time of year when get rid of all the in the community By rablesI mean people with money than I They leave 110111 unity for Mexico the West Indies get rid of all the softies the cowards the sybarites In short the rich while trash Its as much a part of our heritage as the Saturday night hath or spring cleaning And I think its a good thing When the last barber or brick layer bragged about being off to the Bahamas when the last druggist or doctor has in formed me pompously that Well probably take in Acapul- this year I feel a sense of The rats have left the Freez ing ship and theres only the types the rugged individualist and the poor people left in the temperate hah one The rest of us the best of us can get down to the real glory of without stum bling over a lot of sissies who are belter off down there get ting sand in their navels As one of the old trueblue breed fighting it out with the elements I am inclined to scorn them As a humanitarian I can only pity them Think of what theyre missing What is there in the soft and sensuous south to equal that crunch of Iocs breaking off that crack of bursitis in the shoulder when you throw the first curling stone that snap of thigh bones on the ski hill Lets take a look at a couple of these hotweather hounds Look at this bird in Florida Gets out of bed and theres that same old crumby sun blazing down just like all the other days Same old rou tine The inevitable orange juice on the inevitable patio the in evitable trip to the beach with the inevitable obscenely fat softies lying all around Or the inevitable sweating it out on the golf course with a lot of other middleaged liars And heres our pal in Mexico just getting up at 10110 He hasnt paid last years income tax yet but he borrowed from the bank to make the trip He has a hangover from those sixounce fortycent Mexican drinks and a twisted back from trying to tango His wife in the other twin bed looks like an inmate of because shes had Mexi can complaint commonly known as dire rear ever since they he snarls They totter out into the muggy heat And another horrible day in Acapulco has Its not like that around here My daughter wakes me at six- thirty- and I call a cheery good- morning It may a bit more like HUMPH but its well meant My lifes shoves me out with her foot ten minutes later Down to a jolly breakfast vi tamin pills cuppa tea and half- slice of toast Theres the thrill of variety as you prepare for the day When dawn comes will the sun be shining the snow falling or blizzard howling Out into the wild white yon der Grab the shovel and make the snow fly chuckling heartily all the while as you think of those poor slobs in the south with nothing to do every day but the same old things The clean fresh northern air hits your lungs like a dumdum bullet Bark seallike greeting to neighbour whose head is just visible over his snowbank Off to the garage Excitement of wondering whether the car will start The sheer demonic joy of belting out the driveway backwards and trying to smash through the bank the has thrown up Sometimes you make it The skidding slithering ad venture of the drive to work Wheels spinning visibility twelve feet every man for him self The good fellowship and viva city of the teachers cloakroom everyone stamping cursing and running at the nose And another day of glorious winter living has begun Dons try to tell me about the seduc tion of the south land Just give me the crisp virile challenge of living where Lets go back while were ahead And oil THIS WlEK AND NEXT by Ray To Clear The Air Radio and television broad casting in Canada began to get another going over this week as Prime Minister Pearson put a sevenmember cabinet commit tee to work on a new broadcast ing act As a measure of importance attached to the future of broad casting the PM himself headed The pressure for a new act has grown largely out of the Royal Commission report turned in last September by Robert M In it Mr Fowler levelled a wideranging indictment of both public CBC and private broad casting Among other things he called for a new policing body to replace the present Board of Broadcast Governors He also attacked the patchwork in broadcasting which has grown up the past years since radio got going in Canada hut espe cially since when the came formally into existence Curiously enough it was nev er intended by the first minister responsible for the CBC that the Canadian government should rush into the broadcasting busi ness Howe who left his t n iniii in stitutions thought that the CBC or its equivalent should be valelyowncd anil that public ownership was just an idea to be achieved ultimately He was obviously overruled Canadas first TV station went on the air in 1952 and the last big change in bio occurred when the lost policing powers over private stations The formation of the Board of Broadcast Governors to supervise both the and private broadcasters had long been sought by owners of inde pendent stations The Fowler Report as the lat est Royal Commission study is known is bound to lead to many bin headlines in the upcoming session of Parliament When the bold i to be big and Despite the hoopla of the coming parliamentary circus it is doubtful whether the House committee will ever get down to the two basic facts of broadcast ing in Canada The first of these is that broadcasting has made tremen dous achievements in this coun try stretching together through tire nation bringing the world into our living rooms The second is that while the ition of CBC public isting and private com petition has given viewers a choice of TV and radio programs in most centers there is Ire- overlapping between the two It rightly been the func tion of the to cater to diverse tastes to deliver soap opera for the soap fans and serious educational and informa tion programs for our more dis cerning viewers The question could be asked however whether CBC ia serv ing any real function by bring ing Canadian viewers cheap low taste comedies from US net works that serve only to rake in the advertising dollar The CRC has been diverted from Its main task by going partly commercial in order to recover some of the tremendous costs of public broadcasting But in so doing it has made life hinder lor private broadcasters and robbed choice TV time for better programs In the of great TV rorst on except In son is the the new broadcasting act it will go to the House broadcasting com mittee where the violently Tories from the prairies will along with such critics is Liberal Ralph Cowan of Toron to once more tee off on their favorite whipping boy And with Judy Lit marsh now the minister responsible for the the It is to be hoped that the Prime Ministers committee will consider resolving this paradox by eliminating all advertising from to fulfill its real func tion delivering the hind of programs which private stations cant or wont provide because of the tyranny of the ratings system But are we prepared to pay the cost of such a service The year will also be critical in Canadian television because of the advent of color program ming this summer and the deci sion of affiliate stations to purchase outright the CTV in dependent national network Letters To The Editor Dear Editor In reading the letter to you about the shopper finding our Plaza closed on Monday I was reminded how unpleasant shop ping can be I had the most unpleasant and unreasonable incident happen to me while shopping on Main St My husband had bought me a gift for Christmas in the down town store I found it was the wrong size and I tried to change it They could not fit me so I asked for a refund in order to purchase the article elsewhere I had seven dollars invested and I was told no matter what I did I could not have my money back but could take a blouse or I went to another store and they had seven makes and all fit perfect I bought one The service was splendid Seven times the clerk went back and forth to the fitting room to let other ladies wear store Here the attitude seemed to be if the customer needed a dress she should end up with a dress The stores who make us feel welcome and where we can take a chance will do the business I wonder if the merchants realize that bad manners do more ruin business thing else What wo of chants all the of the very fine businessmen suffer because of a few I mpl isolated to citizens of Newmarket our Main Street is still a good place at which to shop Do not judge all the apples in the barrel by the Your truly THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since 1852 years OH for one year of Canadian Weekly New lions as New DAVID It HASKELL Editor and Publish GIL SHEPHERD News Editor Wednesday at 30 Char Ekdtoss Compr advance Company Limited Aurora