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WAS i A 1 lis -r- as 1 Warmtr i- be between Mighty Cold 16 PAGES NEWMARKET NEWMARKET AURORA WED FEBRUARY CENTS AURORA and Warmer Saturday then a Utile ajjahtv Snow will arrive with the a warmer weather j i T x v- for the edition of Our Town on the ice carnival produced by the Newmarket Figure Skat- Club had certain hazards for this young fellow one of about rehearsing The self assured miss at right seems a bit disgusted at the lack of balance Shepherd Staff Queensville Telephone Rates Go Up NEWMARKET Because the number of telephones in the localservice area of the Queensvilie exchange has outgrown the present rate group increases will go into on March I to bring rates into line with those charged in other exchanges with a similar number of telephones B Allan Bell manager for this area said The increases which have been approved by the Board of Transport Commissioners are relatively small For example the monthly rate for twoparty residence serv ice will be only 24 cents higher and the Individual residence service 25 cents higher Extension Telephones from 1 to 125 BUSINESS SERVICE Individual Line from to 910 TwoParty Line from to MultiParty Line from to Extension Telephones from to A Step Closer To Reality NEWMARKET Chief must retire on May This was decided at a special meeting of Newmarket Council on Monday Along with Chief BurWdge two members of the towns works department Vincent and Sanderson were or dered to retire to comply with a bylaw passed in 1964 The 1M bylaw stated town employees nasi retire at except in the police and fire departments where the compulsory re tirement ages be The bylaw made provision for employees who were within five years of the com pulsory retirement age and stated that those affected would have the option of working three years past the normal retirement dates Chief will be next May while Mr and Mr Sanderson will be The option clause In the retirement bylaw was designed to allow employees the end of their town employment to build up a higher monthly pension which was going into effect around Chief was sent a letter last week Informing Mm of a police committee decision that he mast retire la order to con form to the bylaw Police Committee Chairman Bruce Eves told The Era that Chief Burbldge expressed surprise that he must retire in May and Mondays special meeting of council was called to uphold the committee decision Councillor Eves said that Chief Burbldge asked him if he could remain as chief of police until he was so that he could in crease his pension When he retires In May toe chief will receive about a month from his town pension If he was to have been permitted to remain at bis Job for another two years he would receive about monthly Chief has been Newmarkets police chief for 20 years He spent another years on the Etobicoke police force There are men on the Newmarket force and six civilian Chief present salary is 6500 per He recently his house In Newmarket and purchased a house In Gravenhurst He is presently living at his daughters In Newmarket No successor has been named for the chiefs job I ji M X Will Go To Queens Park NEWMARKET York County Council will send a delegation to Queens Park to try to keep farm assessment from rising The decision was made at last weeks session which saw about 50 farmers from throughout the county attend the meeting Aurora Strike Ends Return To Work Council voted to send the delegation to meet with the Agriculture and the Minister of Municipal Affairs to seek a clarification of one section of the Provinces Assessment Act and an apparent conflict with another section of the act Tie brief wilt be tea full meeting of en Feb Under the revised Assessment Act all properties throughout the county will be assessed at market value In other words If a residential home and property can be sold for then the home and property At Holland Landing 9 would be assessed at 71 AURORA One strike was settled in Aurora and employees returned to work pending negotiations in another wildcat Holland Landing strike on Tuesday morning Employees of Choice Cutup Chicken of Aurora returned to their jobs Tuesday morn ing ending the strike which began Jan The company is expected to be at full em ployee strength again by Feb Main item in the settlement was provi sion for a common labor rate for both males and females of per hour There will also be a reduction In the work week from to hours There were members of Local of the United Packinghouse Food and Allied Workers Union involved in the strike against the Aurora company Following a meeting held In Bradford Arena Monday night employees of the Hol land Landing plant of Federal Farms Ltd voted to return to work Tuesday morning FARMERS Page t3 i AURORA Councii found that making fill vacancies on the Rec reation Committee Monday night was not the routine matter it appeared en the sur face NEWMARKET A bridge across the Schombcrg River which has been advocated for a long time by the northern municipal- ties of York County came closer to reality following the report of the Roads Advisory Committee of York County Council Council accepted the report of the com- which gave approximate costs telephones in its present rale group according to engineers studies of the road Telephone rates for any exchange are and bridge which would connect with High- governed by the number of telephones in the way about seven miles north of Bradford localservice area in recognition of the and follow an eastwest route across the As required the Bell Company notified the Board last October that the number of telephones in the area of the Queensville exchange had exceeded by more than five per cent the maximum number of bridge and connections would fill a long felt need in the northern section of the county it would provide an admirable eastwest route right through to Lindsay and Peterborough See BRIDGE Page it To Seek Details principle that the value of service to each customer increases as the number of tele phones increases Telephone customers served by exchange now have tele phones in their localservice area The following table provides examples the new monthly rates for typical classes of service in the present and new rate groups for the area RESIDENCE SERVICE Individual- line from to 440 Party line from to MultiParty Line from to S3 proposed Schomberg River bridge to con ncct with Highway 48 AURORA A representative of the On tario Housing Corporation will be invited to meet with Aurora Council and Planning Board to outline procedure and financing of it was estimated that the bridge would for senior citizens cost and the York County roadway Councillor Dick who occupied section The cost of the bridge would considerable amount of time bringing be equally divided between the Counties of items of unfinished business back to York and Simcoe with the approximate cost attention said the central core of to County or exclusive of Aurora is generally good but some areas engineering charges could be improved through urban renewal Grants available Tor the project would projects and by providing housing for sen- amount to 80 per cent on the cost of the citizens bridge and per cent on the cost of the He admitted he had not all the tion on either at the moment and proposed Speaking on the report Reeve Joseph a meeting be held to gain specific Dales of North Gwiilimbury said The to help council plan for the future Library Rejected SUTTON Reeve Sam Nascllo told Sutton council on Monday night that Ontario Municipal Board approval for debentures for the Centennial Library had not been granted because according to the work had been started on the building be fore application had been made The village had applied as early as March for approval but the board replied that It must have the cost of the building and so tenders were called Armitage Construction Company secured the contract with a price of 33000 which was forwarded to the To gain on the Winter Works subsidy work began on the library Several alternatives are open to the village stop work re tender and start again borrow from the bank or finance it alone To date has been raised by public subscription approximately the same amount is available for the Centennial grant and there will be approximately the same amount in subsidies v No problem was encountered fat re appointing Dick a Boh George Morris and BUI bat re placing Aubrey Leslie and Harvey Bell retiring members was another miller Councillor Dick expressed the hope that Councillor Peter Miller would be added to he committee along with pending further negotiations with the Kcffer to bring the recreation committee up pony A meeting of union officials com- representatives is scheduled for Toes- length day at be offices of the Department of A motion that the Recreation Committee Labor Toronto the pur reappointed plus the retiring Employees of Federal- Farms Ltd are submit names of possible asking a 55 cent bike for male workers from created a hour and a 50 cent rise for female Reeve Jack Williamson Ejected am We made appointments before why do About employees of the Holland Land- have to consult the committee now plant of Federal Farms Ltd staged a wildcat walkout Monday morning protesting Mr Miller expressed dislike to the delay in negotiating a new contract Wing This Is a lot of lets get which has been under discussion since last business October Despite his comment and similar ones The striking employees who converged from Reeve Jim Murray the matter will at the main gate of the plant were mostly be referred back to the recreation commit- STRIKE Page tee for recommendations AURORA The formation and naming for two years and the other four members to serve on the proposed Board three year term this point everyone was more or mes were Broiling and two A bylaw to authorize this stipulated a from council plus a member of the present sevenman board and it was suggested that Chamber of Commerce THIS WEEK IN THE ERA T Farm News Page Smiley and Page i Pages j i Comics Curtain Time Page ay the time I undressed Pages it was time to dress and come horned More names were submitted than quired none of which were classed as or bankers These latter classifi cations were felt to be a decided asset with the result that two bankers and one Indus trialist were added to the list Sensing that council was getting nowhere Reeve Jim Murray presented a motion that the bylaw go back to the Bylaws Committee for clarification and to determine how many should be appointed to the Board of Indus trial and Economical Development I Expo Contest Winner Miss Donna Newmarket was last r the Trip To Eipo by merehinti Miss Fines Knappa Paint from among the Miss entry with a sales slip from Times esse the participating She now Hands a of an paid far a ta AW The old and new modes of transportation found folk while others lined up for a ride in snow with the large crowd attending the policeaponored mobiles More than attended the carnival winter carnival at Fairy Lake Sunday The sleigh drawn Hooper Stuff -M- carnival me ttu by Harry Walker team of A 0Vi I