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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), January 18, 1967, p. 2

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Reeve Jim Murray iod Deputy Reeve Jack as is customary were named the striking committee at Aurora councils first busi ness meeting Dick starting his third year on council once again objected to standard procedure He said appoint ments to committees should be based on experience and ability of council members and not on striking commit tees personal feelings Councillor felt appointments should first be submitted to council in committee where there would be scope for complete debate If not he said lets have de bate in open councU and not simply accept the striking committees report Mayor Davis objected to the suggestion that debate be held in committee That would make it a nine- man committee As it is now any member of could recommend changes JwrootSarte Roland Hill relumed his native town as guest faadforari to the chair speaker for the of Aurora count He shows Mayor Clarence Davis VlSSSii and Councillor Cliff Corbetl the gift presented to him by Reeve Murray not sit or half rise when they have something to say We are going to stop this across the table debating A bylaw to authorize the borrowing of up to for town expenses was pass ed This money will be used as needed until ax pay ments are received by the clerktreasurer Mr and Mrs Tod Sloan and and asked who was from ft family spent four day at ton Geotf Scott himself to the Morrisons Legion asked to be remembered to the GiUans in Sutton He was of the previous a fellow member of the J Press Gallery with Mike wncers for the coming and Sudbury recent ly Mr Sloan bagged two moose white hunting at a nearby camp f Mr and Mrs Clare Morrt- son and family have returned from Andros Island where they spent Christmas and New Years in the sun The family visited with former Stoulfville residents Mr and Mrs Archie Forfar who are opening a resort on the north end of the island Mrs Sutton rison has relatives living on the south end From the small world de partment White at a small hotel in Nassau someone came into the dining room Another from Small World Mr Bill Noble was attending a conference in Chicago recently An Ameri can woman asked where he came from He old her On tario Said she You wouldnt M B year will be President Mrs Mabel secretary- treasurer Mrs Seymour Harper phone committee Mrs Mae Brown Mrs Han nah Park getwell cards know a Mrs Anne Noble from Mrs Clare Morrison Jr Mrs Morrison and Mrs D Burrows attended the swearingin services of Mr- Clare Morrison as a York County Magistrate at Toronto Nine members were named to the transportation com mittee to ensure that mem bers would be able to attend meetings were served by Mrs Hall Mrs Mason Mrs N Cupples and Mrs The Value Of Farm Windbreaks Canada Pension Plan Appoint Library Members To Executive MOUNT ALBEKT The annual meeting of Mount Al bert Public Library was held in the library on Jan Board members appointed for Mrs Herb Miss Viola Gillion Mrs Reg Mrs Elsie Mrs Jim and Mrs George Snyder Mrs and Miss elected president and vicepresident and Mrs Will- bee secretarytreasurer Mrs was appointed li brarian Receipts for were with spent on new books and on mag azines Other expenditures Magazine subscriptions were MAPLE In Southern On tario it is generally conceded that and wind breaks are essential to a complete conservation pro gram However it is felt that too few are being planted and perhaps the lack of knowledge as to bene fits they provide is the rea son For the fanner and windbreaks are helpful in many ways Wind damage and lodging in small grains and corn are reduced or elim inated Snow and resultant mois ture are more evenly distrib uted over the fields particu larly on the higher areas where they are required most Wind erosion of soil Is minimized Moisture loss by evaporation is reduced Field temperatures are raised which may prevent frost dam- order your trees now A well- age accelerate growth and planned windbreak and a house with a wind of 20 mpJi as with one of 5 mph and a windbreak can easily reduce wind velocities In this proportion Aside from these facts pro per windbreaks provide an effective background for farm buildings and in fact may in crease the value of the prop erty Windbreaks and serve the same purpose the difference between two being that a windbreak con sists of one or two rows of trees while a gen erally has more than two In this area white or Nor way spruce arc considered to be the best trees for wind breaks and While they are slow growing initially their later growth is fairly rapid and they re tain their branches close to ground making an effec tive screen Do you feel that wind breaks arc worthwhile If so NEWMARKET The first benefits of the Canada Pen sion Plan retirement pension will be paid in January to contributors who arc or over and retired and to con tributors or over whether retired or not To find out if you elig ible to receive this retirement pension make application to your district Canada Pension Plan office There arc offices across Canada presented to Mrs Harold Kurtz who does the printing for the library also to Bruce Rolling who donates the fuel for heating the library At present the library board has a balance of on hand lo a change In provin cial legislation grants to small libraries have been dis continued thus tie ville and Mount Albert Li braries will continue as pri vate libraries until it seems feasible to organize a munic ipal library system Appreciation was expressed to past president Mrs Case also to hoard members Mrs Morton and Mrs Horace Pearson who resigned as board mem bers is year CHARTER NIGHT newly- formed Newmarket Civitan Club will observe its charter night at the Compass Restaur ant on Tuesday January 24 at pm Guest speaker for the occa sion will be Hon program would be a fine project for Year Padre of Pubs Mens Club Speaker MOUNT ALBERT Hie Rev Gordon Winch Padre To Pubs will be speaker at the Wednesday Jan meeting of the Uni ted Church Mens Club to he held in Mount Albert Church parlor at 8 pm Men of Zephyr and oilier local communities are welcome to attend this meeting at which Rev Winch will speak on his experiences in the Toronto pubs School Board Inaugural Meet NORTH BUR The North Town ship School Board held Us inaugural ceremony on Jan and members were sworn In by Township Clerk Joel Hop kins The following committees were formed at this time Fi nance chairman Jim Day vicechairman Bud Fisher management Andrew Peters transportation Clarence property Jack This is the fiirst year in which the School Board have formed these committees and it lis felt it will help do a more efficient job Clarence will he meeting with Bus Lines this week where a study will be made of the current bus routes and vari ous revisions discussed Reeve J Dales officially started first Teenage Dance Tempo on Fri day night There were about ISO present for the dance sponsored by the Jersey Busi ness Mens Association North Gwillimbury Police Band will play for the public skating session for the first time on Sunday Jan City Hall on Tuesday Jan Hobble Burns Day will be full of smoke and flames marked at the Mr and Mrs Bud Mr Bob Taylor and Miss Margaret McNaughton spent the weekend at he home of Mr and Mrs Sellers Road Mr and Mrs Weldon visited Daves parents Mr and Mrs Weldon Middle Street next meeting Fortunately all damage is of the group to be held on covered by Insurance Jan Point Provincial Park Supervisor Tom Link- letter was on TV twice on Sunday on a nature program It showed Tom and another Department of Lands and Forests man teaching and keeping their eyes on young campers In Algonquin Park Canadian Legion Notes Milton Branch y LLOYD All tickets have been sold for annual Robbie Burns dinner and dance which has been scheduled for Jan Members of Newmarket le gion were hosts for the Zone mixed bowling tournament recently Deputy Zone Com mander Orrle Truman Ladles High Triple Ida The Ladies Auxiliary pro vided a buffet and a dance followed Five earns will compete In he Zone cribbagc tour nament be held at Wood- bridge Jan 21 and on Jan V 0 N Victorian Order NORTH GWILLIMBURY Bremen from both Fire broke out in the base- fire department of the home of Clarence anA ji Selby on the concession te Elm Grove In which damage lhB time amounting to resulted Smoke damage was suffered In the bedrooms living room kitchen and bathroom Mr Selby stated the cause of fire is still unknown but was thought to have or iginated amongst plastic toys specifically a large battery- driven plastic horse The chil dren had previously been playing in the basement but at the time of the fire were in HI Discovery of fire took place when Mr woke up to smell of smoke and discovered the basement was RICHMOND HILL now serving Newmarket and adjacent York County Nurselncharfe Bliss Jean Loggia Phone 8844101 Municipal Building Richmond Hill NEWMARKET DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS NIGHT GRADES TO STUDENTS THURSDAY JANUARY 19th pm v TO 745 PM GENERAL MEETING IN AUDITORIUM TO PM INTERVIEWS WITH TEACHERS r sented the trophy to team cap Zone sports will be held at tain Jim Martin of Richmond Hill Milton kct winners of the event ley will be taking his curlers Congratulations are in order o Sutton on Jan 28 for to Jim Martin and his playoffs of Jim Maurice Winter Held Ida and Ethel Winter for retaining trophy Rich mond Hill were the runners- Other winners Included Mens High Ralph Ladies High Donna Hon ing season slightly Also soil erosion by water may be more reduced by its more even dis tribution when released from snow How much effect shelter- belts ami windbreaks have Is dependent upon the height of the trees and the wind velo city Generally speaking an average windbreak will re duce the ground velocity of a wind per cent or more for a distance about limes the height of the trees One quarter of this effect will ho felt on windward side of the windbreak and Ihrcc- will be felt on leeward side For example if the trees are feet high the ef fective range with a 20 mph wind will be or feet feet on ihe windward side and SCO feel on the lee ward side Wind velocity is reduced by one half at a dis tance of 500 feet so with such living now hear Sharon inspects a rail fence lie and a windbreak the wind veto his brother Fred constructed on the homestead when they were and city is reduced for almost and years of age respectively Now years old the fence is still in sound the entire length of a acre condition field Mens High Triple Bill Plans have been made for I J a special session of hockey between teams from Detroit Mich and local teams The event is scheduled for Jan at pm Public skating on that day will be during the afternoon Jim Chard has asked us to draw attention to page 10 of the Legionary with informa tion how members may earn a legion Centennial Badge Recently members from this Branch visited Branch No at Owen Sound and were taken on a tour of their new Legion Hall York North Provincial Liberal Association Organizational Meeting Adoption Constitution Election of THURSDAY JAN 26 1967 at 8 PM Legion Hall Srigley St Newmarket All Liberals are urged to attend Thomas McPherson Aurora Secretary BIGB FARM MARKET STEAKS ROASTS GROUND BEEF WRAPPED and FROZEN Greatly reduced prices for front cuts POTATOES and Pie Friday and Saturday Located on Concession Whitchurch Twp smith of Vivian Road Orde your Fertilizer for Spring now and sleep nights 7 i i Rest easy this winter your fertilizer all or spring No worries about supplies when big buying rush is on No raco against tlmo and weather Youre all set Right now we have stocks of every analysis ready for delivery before- the spring lush Tafco of your now and save by taking advantage of substantial seasonal discounts Cooperatives of Ontario ONTARIO Windbreaks and slielter- MPP Minister with- belts are also useful around out Portfolio Mr McKeough farm buildings A properly is also a member of the cab inet Treasury Board The Newmarket club is the result of sponsorship by the Richmond Hill Club and in turn is part of International placed windbreak will elimi nate that big snow drift which forms in your driveway ev ery winter and a ill alio re duce your heating bills Tests have shown that more than twice as much heat Is lost OPINIONS DOES IT PAY TO SELL YOUR CAR PRIVATELY As anyone who has tried will tell you attempting to sell your used car privately can make you wish you hadnt Here are some of the steps a private seller in locality must kg through Firstly he must advertise his car in a newspaper where his ad wont compete with dealers In any event he must generally be forever on call for the right pros pect to come along When he does find a buyer he runs into real price resistance Private buyers expert to buy from an individual for substantially less Thats usually why they answer such ads In he first place In addition the seller ran offer no guarantees or service after delivery and the buyer knows that all future faulU with the car become his responsibility feU -Since- better than threequarters of all buyer have a car to trade the chances are good that the buyer himself will have a car that will stand in the way of the deal If the transaction passes this hurdle the problem of finance arises Again better than all cars are sold on terms and the chances are good that the prospective buyer will wish to buy this It fa overcome these problems of course that ear eMWl exist Seek oat a one where you not treatment reliable service with fair trade your car with him FROM OUR ANNUAL REPORT Company Funds Guaranteed Funds Estates Trusts Agencies 38640375 237212834 Total Assets Under Administration 289789783 Guaranteed Investment Certificates Deposits i Profit before taxes Income Taxes Net Profit for Year 1546238 76030 1183908 J VICTORIA and GREY TRUST a flrarnptaa Sound port credli S mat MAIN STREET J Ruby 3 NEWMARKET SI PORT if IM i i a i fit v if Pick yours up now WHILE OFFICIAL DISCOUNT PRICES APPLY at your neighbourhood chartered bank branch Open and build a Faniily jbixpo Tour Account b sure your family to Oct at Montreal ft Manager y i

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