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Door Of Opportunity An old Irish proverb says in effect Never a door of opportunity is dosed to us but what another door may be opened The recent announcement that the former old peoples residence the forerunner of the present York Manor will soon be vacated as Canadian Armys Target Headquarters and revert for possible use by the County of York could aptly be considered a present day application of the proverb Considerable thought and some effort has been expended by the councils of Newmarket and Aurora and other municipalities towards hav ing a community college located in this area with the thought probably that buildings would be erected at a chosen site To reach this stage assuming Department of Education approval had been gained a suitable tract of land would have to be acquired With Target Headquarters to be available this fall it would be more Ihnn reasonable to suggest that this building could be the start of community college The immediate land surrounding the building is about three acres but farm land now leased would add another acres The total area would seem adequate for community college require- the location is ideal as it fronts on Highway the present land scaping could be utilized as the approach to college buildings and the exist ing building would lend itself quite well for administration offices and lecture rooms To put it simply this is or could be an opportunity to expedite the possibility of having a community college established in the area The Irishman and hi proverb could prove correct as it pertains to Newmarket Aurora and the remainder of York County Watching The Signs Newmarkets new traffic bylaw given third reading at a recent coun cil meeting could bear some studying by the motorist in town before it is given approval by the Department of Transport and becomes in integral part of traffic movement in Newmarket Perhaps one of the main changes and one which could cause a few confuted moments is the regulation making Timothy Street oneway west bound to Lome Ave and Street one way from Lome Ave to Main St A further implementation in this section changes the traffic move- around the Market Square parking area Once the bylaw goes into action vehicles will be moving northerly from Timothy St to but on the west side of the town hall Parking on both Timothy St and will be affected by the directional change There will be no parking on the north side of Timothy St from Main to Lome Ave and no parking on the south side of from Lome to Main amendments to patch But on the surface it appears to pave the way to more coordination spectacular changes One thing is certain once the signs and symbols are put in place the car driver in Newmarket will have to keep alert and not take it for granted that because it was a through street before it is still that way Failure to spot the signs could mean a few fenders Have Another Go However early indications are that the airport will cost less than Divided by five this would mean that each municipality would contribute less than 20000 towards construction of an airport Then the Federal Government would lake over made out of snow looks friendly enough with he big and open arms but dont let his smiling ways fool you Though are traditionally cuddly his particular one would make a cold com- SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley It Brings Out The Best The backers of the airport should take another Theres nothing like an old- fashioned blizzard to put that cocky creature man in his place Were right in the middle of a fourstar dandy at the moment Its been snowing blowing for hours with salutary results The world has become a wild white wilder ness And the people in it have be come human beings The creature man in his wisdom believes he has lamed nature He will admit under quizzing that he still doesnt know much about him self But he is confident that he has brought the natural world to Normally he thinks of nature as something subdued something to be used for recreation or looking at and saying Nice aint it It takes a rousing belch from that old trollop Mother Nature whether it be in the form of a blizzard a hurricane an earth quake or a fire to set him right back on his primitive heels And strangely enough it is only when nature comes up with some kind of a spectacular that man seems to shed his scale of materi alism get down to his basic wit and find out once again what makes the human race go round in circles Ordinarily the Christian virtues are as easily spotted as the teeth in a hen who is drawing the old- age pension But when nature gives a vast rumble of laughter at little fellows and collapses the facade of creature comforts which are the modernday fetishes the old virtues brighten the darkest Generosity unselfishness de cency lountoothers all the things to which we pay lip serv ice suddenly flower when jwople arc getting a good kick in the teeth from old Mother When a blizzard is raging ordi nary miserable grouchy people regain some of those qualities the pioneers are supposed to have had People who wouldnt pick up the displayed a sign reading Buck ingham Palace or bust suddenly start picking up hitchhikers People who ordinarily wouldnt give you lie time of day will stop and shove you out of a snowbank People who wouldnt buy an apple from a Boy Scout will shovel out old ladies driveways And s Not only do they revert to humanity The return to a certain primitive pride in doing battle with the elements People who will grumble for hours about a sprinkle of rain that spoils a picnic turn into giants when the big snow comes They hump through the drifts They snort ami stamp into work half an hour late as proud as though theyd just crossed the Sahara ijlo hnnde without They die in their hundreds frozen grins on their faces clutching their snowshovels I speak from experience This morning my neighbor with whom I exchange a carefully greeting about every six months had managed to smash his truck through the threefoot drift in his drive- And there he was when he mushed out grinning like a gar ble Rebuilding our steamboat could be our Winter Works DA Rehabilitation Tourist Public Transport Centennial Project a drive to work And he wasnt practising He was being a good neighbor work and found hat one chap had driven through he storm for fourandahalf hours to make it on time He was sliteyed un shaven and something of a hero for perhaps he first lime In his life I hate to suggest it in case old Mother is listening hut perhaps we need a few more blizzards earthquakes holocausts and hur ricanes They work a lot better than nationally advertised Brother hood Weeks AND NEXT By Bay The Quiet Canadians Among the many paradoxes of the Vietnam war none was more mystifying this week than the un explained reluctance of Canada to attempt to move the conflict from the jungle the conference table Canadas failure to act was doubly strange because as a member of tho International Control Commission which had been given the job of trucewatching in Vietnam by the 195 Geneva Conference this coun try is one of three nations having a recognized legal right to speak out on the war Along with neutralist India and Communist Poland Canada accept ed he Geneva Conference request to maintain observers in Vietnam when that country was partitioned after he French withdrawal The ICC grew increasingly help less as the Communist- led Nation al Liberation Front stepped up its guerilla war in South Vietnam and the US reacted with material and military aid External Affairs Minister Mar tin who two years ago tried to get Japan to take over Canadas role assured Parliament recently that Canada would stay on with But because of Prime Minister Pearsons reluctance to even dis cuss the Vietnam conflict there has been a growing suspicion that Ottawa would not make any moves which had not first been cleared with Washington As prime minister Mr Pear sons preoccupation with domes tic politics has isolated him from the kind of international diplomacy at which be showed such daring in the Suez crisis Also unexplained has been Presi dent Johnsons famous letter to Of last summer Did Mr John son ask Canada to semi to Vietnam or did he not If he did if would indicate the US expect ed Canada to give Washington its full backing despite this countrys conference to extricate the US from Vietnam Why then has Can ada not taken the lead to get one going The explanation either that behindthescenes efforts are al ready being made in this direc tion or that Mr Pearson has de cided the problem too critical to OttawaWashington relations for Canada to dabble in The North Vietnamese backed up solidly by China and reluctant ly by the Soviet Union have said that US troops will have to get out of Vietnam before talks can begin Theyve added that the US would then have to sit down with the National Liberation Front the Viet Cong to work out peace terms The US on the other hand contends hat he negotiations would have to be between two entirely different parties he South Vietnamese government in Saigon and the Vietnamese regim The Communists view the con flict as an undeclared war between the the people of South Vietnam the Viet Cong The of South Vietnam by the Hanoi of in the north But because the President to give Mr Pearson to make the letter public it doubtful if we will ever know- hat it contained Following the Honolulu confer ence between President Johnson and Saigon Premier Ky rhy mes with he the US appeared to have at last settled on a basic pressure without escalating the war beyond recovery The main elements of the strat egy are to try to recover the three- quarters of South Vietnam now controlled by the Communists but to avoid any troop incursions Into North Vietnam Such superescala tion would bring the Chinese Army marching into the Indochina deltas The hope is hat a war of attri tion and time will eventually cannot win a military victory in he south The US already appears resign ed to being unable to win military victory The chorus of ruing ab sent at home will eventually make it politically safer for President Johnson to negotiate a settlement he i providi Mil Letters To Editor Drive Newmarket Ontario February 19C6 The Editor Tho Era Newmarket Ontario Dear Sir I am sure that your editorial policy must include the niont of every worthwhile commu nity endeavour Therefore Hip ill find them Hud t for This Perhaps there were because the people of this do not know that to Church there has come a spirit If flomeouft has tu red aw from The Church for lack of llK Illly ill lit mister deserves from our community a Church that is over flowing and had all the places been filled then friends of ours would most certainly have gone from The Service better able to encounter the stress and trials of the comfort and mage which they THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since 1852 r Aurora