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a J i drawn t 4 v i S WEEKS WEATHER IS About Same I i i 22 PAGES NEWMARKET NEWMARKET- AURORA ONT WED MAY CENTS AURORA Here on weatherman can make lit mind whether its whiter or Itll be between and cooler Wednesday wanner and cooler over the weekend I NEWMARKET The Confederation Caravan opens Us twoday exhibit in New- market May bringing to Canadians the story of the nation and her people in a way never been told before Youll know the caravans coming when you hear its mighty blaring out the first four notes of 0 Canada as the eight Riant tractortrailers roll through the town to the exhibit site early in the morning Because of its size it will be accompanied by a police escort on its way to the site There the drivers will arrange the color ful trailers in a quadrangle set up the mo bile regional exhibits entrance gangways and bridges between trailers and the show is ready to open J From am until II pm daily visitors ran experience the development of Canada from primeval times to the present not a museum or an art gallery or a history lesson more like a time ma- i More Caravan News Pictures On Pages chine trip to visit the all walks of life who lived and worked laughed and wept in Canada before we came along This major Centennial Commission proj ect took almost four years to produce from idea to fact Writers laid down broad story lines- Then some of Canadas top artists sculptors and draftsmen of many kinds brought them to life under the direction of the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission Eight identical caravans were produced to crisscross the nation while the similar Confederation Train crosses from west to east generally stopping the larger cen tres of population Visitors to the show find the trailers biggest ever made in Canada arranged in a quadrangle with an entertain ment stage near the entrance and towering displays inside the formation The tell in sound and light and photo the development of this region of Can ada Several of them have cranks so the visitor can activate miniature shows himself Hut the main show is inside the seven exhibit trailers the eighth provides storage for the The ales arc told with still and movie pictures lifesize mannequins that move intricate miniature figures and scenes re productions of fullsize rooms and outdoor settings as well as hundreds of artifacts You experience life as it was lived in the Indian villages a tailor shop of Lower Can ada the gold rush days the Roaring Twen ties and the Great Depression You sec the Ming vases and fine silks explorers were seeking when they found Canada by mistake tiny sculptured figures of the Fathers of Confederation a rifle and mask of one war and bomb fragments of another a slock ticker through the crash And the sounds of other times arc all around you the chant of the voyagcurs probing the heart of a continent the gar rulous laughter of a tavern of Upper Canada the puffing and clatter of a Prairiebound steam engine the shriek of bomb and shell In war Many visitors signing the guest book at East Taxes Up 28 To 75 1 North of Arena Cedar SI 2 flank of Montreal Timothy SI Peter Gorman Pool and Church Library Park Ave Hell Telephone Millard Ave Office Specialty Prospect Ave Office Specialty Water St and Prospect Ave Newmarket School Prospect Ave ft York Curling Club Muriel St Stuart Scott School 1orne Ave Ave Wesley Park Wafer SI Alex School Prospect Ave Works Yard Timothy St 1 Newmarket Legion Si 15 Davis Or Newmarket Plaza Davis Dr The Era Charles St A Festivals Quality Surpasses Other Years j in SHARON East Gwillimbury Township property owners were slapped hut not wal loped after their council brought dGwn the budget Property owners will pay anywhere from to 75 more than they payed last year- depending on assessment East Council after an all- day session tipped tho mill rale by about and threequarters mills means that a properly owner whose land and home is assessed at 2000 will face a lax Increase of be tween 28 and S30 will face a fax increase or be tween and 15 loou will face a lax Increase of be tween and will face a lax Increase of be tween and Kasl Gwillimbury Township officials point out that most of the taxpayers especially those in East Heights are assessed around which brings their tax hike between and 60 The big fly in the ointment which brought about the tax hike was the increased cost Hut the big jump In the public school levy It cost 61986 to educate Bast grade school children In 1366 while bill win come to this year The York County levy increased too The levy which goes to pay for such things as county roads amounted to in The levy was 175936 The levy for township roads remained the same the levy for general purposes was set up about two mills while the cost of hav ing garbage collected from the East Gwillim Heights area dropped 25 cents a year Property owners in Mount Albert face a onemill increase Property owners In face a sevenmill Increase Property owners In Sharon face a four- mill increase Both Police Villages have new sidewalks this year While property owners of Holland Landing will see their tax bill drop one mill NEWMARKET Music both orchestral and vocal was in the high qual ity of former years and in many cases sur passed any previous presentations at Festival of Stars which concluded the annual Lions Music Festival held last week Mike Steel was again master of cere monies for the event which drew a capacity audience to Trinity United Church The varied program was an excellent crosssection of the activities held during the week at both Trinity Church and St School auditorium and Included choir instrumentalists soloists and an ad dition to the usual program an organ selec tion Awards and scholarships were presented following the first half of the program by representatives of the various donors SPECIAL AWARDS Winning special Centennial awards were Nancy Brinkos Edward Koroway Rita Elaine Bolton and Bud West Winners in the vocal classes included Rita Bolton Catherine Gundy Walter Rone Grant Gordon Holly Jack son Donald and Audrey Jay The piano section drew the greatest num ber of awards and prizes Top winners in the prizes were Nancy David John Rose and Brian Kohler ACCORDION Accordion prizes went to Monica Maltulat Beverley Lou Bell Edward Koroway and Linda Blunt Marilyn Hurst and Mary Wilson were the Joseph Bumbaco and Mark McElwain top contestants in the organ Winners of 25 included Jack Instrumental class awards went to James Kim Evans Kathryn Fisher Vencta Goebel Spragg Stephen Clark and William Bradley Proctor Mona Karen See FESTIVAL Page 782 Mills Increase Newmarket after touring the Confederation of educating children Caravan feel they know a little more about The high school levy jumped from 207- Two More Mothers AURORA Home Owners will face an in the tax rate of mills and industrial and commercial establishments a rise of mills this year Presenting the budget Thursday Mayor Clarence Davis said the people must face substantial increases in the police and fire departments estimates because of additional money being required for proper protection of persons and properly as represented by a population of of the total tax will be payable May July and September Of the nine on council only Mayor Davis Reeve Jim Murray Deputy Reeve Jack Wit- J Harmon and councillors waller Davis and nick Illlngworlb were on hand when the meeting started Councillors William Trent arrived min utes later and Mrs Evelyn Buck minutes late Councillors Cliff Corbctt and Peter Miller did not attend There is also an increase in Ihe estimates roads and highways due to the necessity Alt the people who passed this way before us last year to this year Bill Hill Chief Of Police In Pine NEWMARKET Following a resolution of Town Council Monday night Staff Scr- William Hill was appointed Chief of Police He will lake over the duties of Police Chief Byron who is due to rcllfc on May 18 Expo Contest Winner Mrs River St Sutton West was winner of the Trip To Expo contest sponsored by area merchants Sergeant Hill will take over his new duties on May 19 He will serve a sixmonth probationary period at a salary of per year Members of Operations Group had met on April 24 to consider the matter and had interviewed DeputyChief James and StaffSergeant Hill Mr had PINE ORCHARD Two more mothers have joined another Pine Orchard area mother in their condemnation of conditions at Pine Orchard Public School Mrs Harrington charges that stray dogs are eating her childrens lunches while they play unsupervised in the school yard I Mrs successfully unscrambled Ron Motors from among sponsor ijng merchants advertisements Of Han accompanied her winning entry with facsimile from one of the participating businesses She now stands a chance of winning an allexpense paid lor two lb Expo In Montreal this summer She says that the lack of supervision has advised committee that he was not in- allowed children wander out of the in the position at this time yard onto the road in front of the school Council also entered into an agreement Heavy trucks use the road a few hundred with the Newmarket Police Association re- yards to norih to deliver produce and a contraci tor the year The gravel final agreement included clauses concerning Mrs Harrington also charges thai elder wage increases amounting to approximately children steal lunches from the younger failing to send her child to school per cent rates for overtime duties days children a Whitchurch school board meeting off and a duty list at least six weeks In teacher is too old to supervise the Monday chairman Dr J Morris Smith advance schoolyard The other teacher makes lunch walked out of the meeting when he failed Staff Sergeant Hill joined Newmarket for herself while the principal says he has to block discussion about the controversy Police Force in and has been a member stay inside to answer telephone The board later called for a full report Another mother Mrs N Putnam claims that the school principal told her that he did not want any Childrens Aid Society wards because there were enough regular chil dren there She said that she reported he incident Society officials at Newmarket Society of ficials refused to comment on her complaint Meanwhile mother who started It all Mrs William McAdam says shell go to jail Before lets her daughter attend the school Mrs charges that Incompetent teaching will cause more than half ihe Grade class to fail their year Shes to appear in court next week for for of commencing a sound road repair pro gram Items In budget over which council has no control he said the county levy up some bigh school require ments up public school require ments up some over the amounts of Were All Aglow i V Fifteen buildings of various styles of architecture which Include churches office and industrial buildings and a residential block are literally In the lime- light A summary of distribution of the tax Mammoth floodlights have been set up by for 20 years Mrs Harrington said dollar this year shows education per cent county rates per cent police dept debt charges public works welfare health and sanitation parks and recreation street lighting fire administration upkeep etc per cent Total assessment of will pro vide to which other revenue of as the per capita grant and miscel laneous revenue of gives a grand total of The rise in the residential tax rate means homeowners assessed at will pay an extra and those assessed In the category will race an Increase of approxi mately Following the adoption the budget council passed a bylaw to authorize the iir from school principal Colin Hathaway Newmarket Hydro workmen and local elec trical contractors and the buildings con sidered a cross section of Newmarket will be lighted The promotion of the town and its build- is the Centennial project of Newmarket Hydro under the direction of Manager Jim Beadle A series of bus tours starting at the Hydro building on Water street will be provided for the public May and 5 Is planned to operate two tours each night with Ihe buses available at and about minutes later The route whir include the Canadian Legion industries on or near Davis Drive York County Health Unit the Medical Aria Building Park bandshell St Pauls Anglican Church Pick- Transformer Sta- lion and Newmarket Hydro Electric Com J A