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THE ERA WED JANUARY VOL 116 No Too Darn Cold Visiting hockey fans at Georgetown and other centres where Si hockey is played come away talking to themselves about the spectator support given the home team by local fans Georgetown draws 600 fans for their home games 1 Vr IB- ill I- I This raises the question of whether there is a lack of interest in the games played by Newmarket and the Aurora Tigers playing at home at the Newmarket arena the Redmen have become accustomed to playing to less than spectators and when the Tigers take the ice the combined Aurora and New- market fans swells the crowd to probably 300 Home pride alone about a team at the bottom of the league stand ing is not sufficient to draw fans but on the other hand if the case of the Aurora Tigers is considered a winning team fails almost as dismally It would seem the greatest problem is lack of comfort Everyone who attends the Newmarket arena knows its usually too cold to permit proper enjoyment of a game When minor hockey is played the mere handful of parents and fans occupying the arena appear even colder than those hardy souls attending Thursday night and Sunday afternoon Red- men and Tigers games Interest in hockey is not failing this is substantiated by the fact there are more teams players today that at any previous time Posties Need Help We would suggest the answer to the problem of lack of support can be remedied by having a warmer arena It would also help with games starting on time improving the calibre of play especially in the junior category and eliminating unneces sary rough play V J J It Looks Good Yearend reports presented by the Newmarket building and treasury departments show that the town is in an expanding position and its ratepayers have some money in the bank The building departments report shows the largest amount of new home construction in the towns history This indicates that home builders enjoy a good climate in which to do business but more important shows that more and more people want to move to Newmarket And the people that are already living in Newmarket are pros perous is proven by the fact that 86 per cent of last years taxes were paid by the end of This prosperous and expanding climate should prove once and for all that the forecasters of doom for Newmarket are wrong It should also prove to prospective industrialists that Newmarket is a healthy community in which to locate a factory How about going after them Council Good Business The Aurora Rotary Club is to be commended for sponsoring a management seminar to show businessmen how to operate their enter- prise more successfully This is an area often overlooked and in most case justifiably so by service clubs who devote most of their efforts to childrens projects and welfare work The Aurora Rotary Club project is designed to show the business manager or the owner just how to use his books to determine if he is operating his venture profitably It will show him just where certain costs can be cut or when expansion is necessary so that he can derive more profit from his labor and investment The seminar is being presented in cooperation with the Ontario Department of Education and is directed by chartered accountant Leonard Rosenberg The twohour sessions will start January 24 and continue for 10 weeks Some small businesses operate on a monthtomonth and even on a weektoweek basis The owners can only tell if they are making a profit by their bank balances They dont know in what area their venture is losing money or where they can cut costs For the small fee charged and little amount of time involved the Aurora Rotary Clubs Planning For Profits seminar would be a good investment I Dear Editor iSr In the summertime its motor cycles and in the winter its snow mobiles racing up and down the road in front of my house These snowmobiles noisy as motorcycles bunch of racketmakers seem to drive them except that the snow- mobile driver seems a little older Cant something be done about cutting the noise Can anyone drive these snowmobiles without a Dear Editor A pat on the back to the men who go out in the cold and plough the snow off our streets Last Saturdays snowfall was the The noble creed that the mail always been a go through helped make went of the government This Canadas postal service one of the would be corrected if the best But the countrys made a crown corporation mail carriers are restless the gov- headed up by ernment seems unable to cope with tor instead of a political appointee as is now the case Meanwhile according to the postal union the Post Office con- to engage in the worst kind of personnel policy liable ranging from spying on In f i Winter Garb Trees shrubs and hedges are always clothed each winter in a new outfit of white They can be seen in their finery by peeking out your window taking a wintry walk down any street or mean dering through a wooded area With the rapidity of changing seasons in Canada the costumes of white dont remain in fashion too long and are soon changed for hues in a few short months SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Those Wonderful Years By the time this appears in print I expect that I shall have severed an association of years with the weekly newspaper busi ness And it is not without some sadness that I do so Sometimes it seems that our life is governed by accident that we have very little control over it Had the war lasted a few months longer had I taken a different course at university or gone to a different college I would not have met my wife And had I not met that particular girl at that parti cular time I would never have been in the newspaper business nor would I be writing this column Accident again took a hand We were in the city I had en rolled in a postgraduate course in English University teaching was the objective Came the tragic news that my brotherinlaw on my wifes side had been drowned in a Iwating accident He owned a weekly news paper We hastened to the scene to be of what comfort we could And I pitched in as ignorant as Mrs Murphys cow to help keep the paper going for a week or two until other arrangement were made Eleven years later I was still here From the beginning I was fascinated This was better than the world of Chaucer and Spen ser and- the Romantic poets the whole fleecelined world of the scholar This was life There was an exciting tempo to it that suited me Monday was a day of desperation No news no editorials written nobody wanted to buy an advertisement that early in the week The linotype operator was getting because you couldnt keep him busy and he knew what was coming Tuesday the pace accelerated rapidly The news began to pour in You madly dashed off two sparkling editorials You tried to make a sensible story of the donny- at last nights council meet ing You hit the street and sold ads whether was raining or snowing or hot Wednesday was even more so Complaints callers classified ads piling in and the inevitable mer- chant waltzing in after the dead line with a big ad you simply hadnt room to print Proofread ing away behind People in look ing for freepublicity People in just to chat about town affairs or their grandchildren And the linotype operator dangerous to the point of being lethal within a radius of feet of his machine Work often till midnight putting the sheet to bed Thursday was decision day Too many ads Can we leave this one out Too much country correspond ence Which reporter will be least infuriated if we leave her stuff till next week Short a column of frontpage news Where can wo dig it up The photos havent arrived Rush to the bus station sec if theyre in Hut by about 1030 am she was on the press and com forting thump and rumble of the old machine was reward enough for all the scrambling There was solid satisfaction in folding stamp ing and mailing the finished pro duct You felt as good as though youd just wrestled an alligator to a split decision At any rate I was hooked Formed a partnership with one of the printers and we the thing We didnt have cents apiece But we went out like a couple of pirates hit every friend and relative we knew scratched up the down payment outbid every competitor because we had nothing to lose and took on what was probably the biggest mort gage on any weekly newspaper on the continent They were great fun those first few years There wasnt much caviar or champagne Every spare nickel went into the debts But we made it and made a host of good friends among weekly editors on the way But I can tell you that run ning a weekly newspaper is one of the roughest games in town Holidays are almost unknown Long hours are the rule Some body is always sore at you And youll never be rich Ill miss it Some of it And Ill always have warm memories of it But I hope to keep in touch through this column which will cans continue as usual The post office department has postal problems and mail service is deteriorating Faced with a preChristmas strike by the countrys postal workers a 10month pact was patched together in November which assured the nation of con tinued mail service until next But the ink was hardly dry on the agreement before the Cana dian Union of Postal Workers charged the post office depart ment with bad faith in not extend ing a cent an hour wage in crease to 3500 semistaff workers in rural post offices As the New Year began spokes men for the postal workers were talking up the threat of wildcat walkouts in the big cities to win the 25 cent raise for the rural workers not included in the new wage schedule At that the members of the Letter Carriers Union and their 11000 brothers in CUPW remain disgruntled at the raises granted them in November They had asked for ah hour more a raise of per cent but settled for onequarter of that This brought wages of clerks to an hour and letter carriers to an hour There was an air of unreality about those November negotia tions Although the workers come under the administration of Post master General JeanPierre Cote the negotiations went to the desk of Revenue Minister Benson be cause he was responsible for pick ing up the wage bill When settlement was finally reached Mr Benson was reported to have declared jubilantly that they asked for and got 25 cents This kind of altitude could hardly be expected to win cither the confidence or respect of postal workers The Post Office is still operat ing under a patchwork quilt of arrangements which leave the de partment vulnerable to a variety of breakdowns An example was the December walkout of mail truck drivers in Montreal The drivers employees of a private company struck for higher wages and tied up mail delivery for three days just before Christmas Postmaster General Cote said later the strike would probably speed up his departments plans to establish its own trucking ser vice Then at least the postal service would not be vulnerable to strikes against private operators Now because of continued dis satisfaction over poor pay and working conditions postmen are taking of working to rule which would mean a further slowdown in delivery Under work to rule procedures mailmen would do what the rule book calls for them to do and nothing more Canadian postal service can be expected to grow progressively worse until the government recog nizes three basic facts First postmen must be paid wages equal to those paid in private industry for comparably essential jobs Second the Post Office depart ment must be modernized and be made more selfsufficient Third the government must end its blundering ways of negotiate wage disputes with postal workers As painful as the prospect appears Canadians may be faced with paying higher mail rates This should start with the junk mail that clutters up mailmens bags and householders garbage workers to abuse of promotion systems A mobiles are just as iest this year and shortly after cycles and the same oclock in the morning all the licence Lucy Clarke Pi Editors Note JAB vehicles have to a muffling system to you AH snowmobiletype have a licensed of them road without a streets in Newmarket were clear had to take the family to visit relatives up near Queensville and I thought I would have some dif- ficulty getting to their farmhouse But no sir the main highway was clear and so was the just moved up from Toronto and every time it snowed traffic was snarled up I thought it would be much worse in this area but streets and highways seem to get cleared much quicker and the driv ers arent such big sissies I didnt know who to send this letter to so Im sending it to you in the hope that yobll publish so that the right people are con gratulated By Elizabeth One cannot help but to feel sorry for nil those Christmas trees stripped of their decorations that our courteous Works Department has carted off on extra trips for the convenience of those without a fireplace and even more so really for those two unlucky characters who on New Years Day collapsed dead drunk in front of the Police Station What a spot to choose for sleeping off loo much of celebration Which shows that life is grim for stran gers in strange places Police have lauded citizens for good behaviour there were no incidents apart from the above I wonder how the merits count for our officers for action when there in crime or for the absence of is a lot to handle and we sink fences when the law they reW present is well respected Either way lets hope they come to an agreement with the town regard- the ugly subject of remun eration With holidays not not over yet much has been said about Sir John and his worthiness of having a special holiday all in his honour or should we have one in honour of the flag It seems that we will gladly commemorate the subject most suitable to our preference of date A wise thing was to set the Monarchs birth day on the of May thus keeping Queen Victoria and her successors forever in happy mem ory Too bud Sir John was born the wrong time of the year Any hopes and good intentions have terribly backfired as of date We want a holiday not our child- ren To be quite frank we urgently need one just this one holiday a year for adults only and not for the schools Our teachers would have our fullest sympathy and highest estimation Coming hack from daydreams though we all should have a day to celebrate Sir John and Canada before this year is over Aurora the way has the Canadian Flag in lights of white and red put up across the high way entering the town A bou quet for this to our neighbours The shining Maple Leaf in its while background bordered by the red is an inspiring sight at night Its time to think up something to beautify our town Newmarket is a lovely sight from up on the highway as it nestles in the valley down below The water towers elegant inscription is different but cant be read by night or from a distance Perhaps it perhaps some other spot would lend Itself to an appropriate centennial de coration to greet the visitor or and let him know this place is part of time and history I THE ERA Si On i Northern York County 7 I I J Since 1852 DAVID a HASKELL Editor Publisher GIL SHEPHERD News Editor Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario by Newmarket Era Express Limited Subscription for any Limited Subscription for wo years for one year in ad- vance Single copies are cents each Member of Canadian Weekly ii Member of Canadian Weekly and too Audit of Circulations Authorized Second Class Mall Post Office Depart ment Ottawa Phone Newmarket