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I ERA MAY VOL No Doris Robinson Doris Robinson has been a newspaperwoman for nearly years V ll i i I I She didnt write a column nor did she in fact write a story of My kind Very few of the readers of newspapers she worked for even knew she worked at the newspaper She was anonymous to almost everyone in the community almost everyone except the people she worked with Mrs Robinson was a linotype operator She operated that huge complicated machine that transfers the words that reporters write into sticks of lead type that eventually reproduce onto the pages of your newspaper Her job was a difficult one as operating a linotype machine is one of the most demanding jobs In the newspaper business A linotype operator must be both fast and accurate Robinson was nil of that and even more she was an editors editor catching spelling and grammatical errors before she took the final of the typewritten word into lead type But even more than being at the top of her profession Doris Robin- ion was and still is a kind and gracious woman Doris has decided to retire after nearly years in the news paper business three of which have been at The Era If there are a few more typographical errors in the news columns of The Era for a little while it will be because Doris Robinsons nimble hands are not setting the lead type We at The Era join with our readers in wishing Doris and her husband Stan a relaxed retirement and many more years of happiness together I its h Commendable A new feature has been added to the pages of The Era Each week members of the Newmarket and District Ministerial Association will write a column entitled A Word For The Week This column will be published on the Church Page and its mes sage will not only spread the Word of God it will contain news of various activities taking place at Newmarket and district churches The column will also deal with problems and decisions affecting the community and the family The Era commends A Word For The Week to its readers and wel comes the Word of God to its pages r I i I I Dear Editor I have just read in the Toronto Star tonight that in Richmond Hill J yesterday were fined cash for allowing their dogs to run at large would like to say that I think there should also be a court held here in New market and the sooner the better for the same reason I love dogs and it breaks my heart to sec them running at large Some people really believe they arc being kind to their dog when they open the door in the morn- J and put the dog out alone One day and the day is a sure to come they will be sending their pet to his untimely death A dog can run into all sorts of danger It costs less to feed your dog on your neighbors garbage but not for long does it cost less Soon- or later the animal gets some tainted swill sickness and per- haps dies Animals that are turned loose are in constant danger of injured in accidents or hurt f in dog fights Strays may even join packs and ravage the neigh- In this farm area farmers well know the danger from dog packs they are uncontrollable They can kill a hundred head of in a matter of hours And of course the stray dog may be picked up by the dog war- den and put in a truck with other strays He will be lodged in the dog pound and if there is any disease among the other dogs he will be exposed to It It true can be recovered from the pound if he has not been disposed In of the several different ways and we all know too well what they are he may well go a long and expensive 111- of an infection he Contracted in the pound fcX Before I close this letter may important fact for who have roving dogs The dog is a tresspasser by nature He is oblivious to signs that may be posted as a warning to any and all tresspassers And so he breaks through a hedge or jumps over the fence and enjoys a veritable field day on somebodys property The fact that your dog cannot read docs not sway the court when it comes to paying for damages Of course you the have cer tain rights The plaintiff must prove it was your dog Rut you cant vouch for him once you let him out that door alone You dont know where he ia where he goes or what he does Keep your dog at home please for his sake as well- as your own especially if you love him Sincerely Jennifer Neher Avenue Newmarket I Dear Editor li By Ray v Bank Act The prospect of increased com- Total ownership by r Large and Small This tiny country home in dwarfed by a gigantic tree as the warm weather of Summer makes its presence felt across Can ada during the first week of May As the warm summer breezes wafted their way from coast to coast Canadians busily engaged in a host of out- Hide chores SPICE By Bill Smiley Remember The Battles Theres nothing like a good old- fashioned family fight on Satur day night to relieve the built- up tensions of the week clear the air and get everybody squared around for a quiet Sunday For centuries this was a tradi tion in many families But like ho many of our other fine old cus toms this one has been virtually destroyed by television Dont get me wrong I dont mean the kind of thing in which the drunken husband lurches home beats up his wife and kids robs the sugar bowl and piggy banks of their pennies and staggers back to the pub and Pearl This happened of course And still does Hut I mean the ordi nary family fight The father a decent working man has gone up town Saturday afternoon with his allowance Hes bought a pack of fags and had three or four beers Hes mildly merry His wife has done the weeks shopping She has lugged four bulging bags of grub a block to the car She has slaved to pre pare a good supper The baby is crying just for the hell of it The teenage daughter is whining about going to a dance with a known hoodlum The 12yearold son is still out fishing its almost dark and hes probably drowned And her feet hurt And the din ner is ruined the old man is late Twenty minutes late already Well theres a dusttip Pa comes in with a happy smile and the old lady peels the hide right off him The boy comes in grinning with two speckled trout and gets a cuff on the ear The daughter whines on and is sent to her room The baby no slouch at the game yells like a banshee to get some attention And its all over like a sum- storm Pa is ashamed Tor cuffing the kid Mil is ashamed for blasting Pa The hoy gets doubles on dessert Ala and Pa plead with the girl to go out with the hood who really isnt a after all The baby gets a bottle right in the mouth and shuts up The kid cleans his fish Ma does the dishes dreamily Pa goes out and roots around the rosebush Sis flics out at the hoot of a horn- Baby burps and smiles in his sleep Thats the way it was not loo long ago Rut television has wreck ed it Nowadays in stead of tak ing out our aggressions on each other we huddle before the Great Soporific on Saturday nights din ner balanced on our knees We pour all our aggressions into a stiff bodycheck or a saloon brawl in a Western As a result the fine old family fight on a Saturday night has degenerated into a querulous quibble about whos going to get up and fetch a beer during commercial However I am glad to say al though the family fight is dving is not quite extinct The other day I read with growing fascinn lion of a Christmas Eve squabble that has to rank with one of the great ones It took place last Dec 2Hh and the legal aftermath is now in progress As the newspaper reported it Ills young fellow admitted he drank between and 10 bottles of beer during the day That is some beer drinker You try putting down about four gallons of beer the day before Christmas or any other day and I guarantee youll have a belly the shape and a nose the hue of Santa Clans himself Not to mention the beers com ing out your ears It gets better The Champ we shall call him had an argu ment with his brother who threw him out of the house Imagine the and undaunted The Champ climbed a tree Maybe he thought it was a pear tree mid he was a partridge Who knows Anyway brother stepped out side with a shotgun He claimed he fired a shot in the air not knowing The Champ was up a tree But several pellets entered the lattcrs anatomy The champ testified that he couldnt remember swinging his motherinlaw around by her hair although he did admit having a fight with her It sounds like a swinging party just glad I wasnt there but It proves that the family fight still has a little steam in it oven though it is disappearing from our way of life petition and the opportunity to develop new fields of business hits gingered up banking to the point where the banks are almost mak ing It seem they really want to lend out all that money theyve been hoarding in their vaults This in fact is exactly what the banks do wish to do Theyve mounted one of the biggest loan campaigns of their history look- to when in all likeli hood the ceiling on bank interests rates will be removed entirely The new Hank Act fathered by former finance minister Waller but brought to life by Mitchell Sharp look two years to find its way through the various stages of parliamentary passage And despite rough sailing much of way the act emerged almost intact The one main change resulted from a recommendation of the Porter Royal Commission on bank ing and finance The new act con tains a clause limiting ownership in new banks by one group to per cent although the new will have 10 years to meet this provision For the balance of this a new interest celling of seven and per cent replaces the old six per cent It must remembered however that even under the six per cent rate total interest actually worked out to about per cent for most bor rowers As of Jan next the inter est rate will for all practical pur poses disappear the aver age rate on shortterm government bonds is now running below five per cent Just as loan interest rales will fluctuate so too are there changes in rates of interest paid on sav ings loans The Hank of Montreal and the Canadian Imperial Rank of Commerce were the first to offer four per cent on noncheck ing accounts compared to the tra ditional Ihrcc per cent bank sav ings rate The mammoth Hank Act which contains more than clauses Is seen as providing a basic nomic framework for the growth of the country during the next years The Act Is scheduled to lie revived every years but the current review was delayed by the 1963 and elections One of the most important new clauses permits the banks to make National Housing act and conven tional mortgage loans up to per cent of property value Hope fully this will eventually bring more bank money into the hous ing field The slow rate of homo construction is today regarded as one of Canadas main social and economic problems Hut so lo prevent the sibilily of any banks obtaining a stranglehold on the countrys economy the new Act restricts banks holdings in any other com pany to per cent of the voting shares The Act also ensures that there will be free competition between the nationally chartered banks and the nearbanks particularly trust companies by barring any director of a trust or loan com pany which accepts deposits from the public from being appoint ed a director of a bank One of the most controversial clauses of the Act was the one regarding foreign ownership of Canadian banks While Finance Minister Sharp is known lo favor be limited to 26 per cent However tho Mercantile Hank bought from Dutch interests by New York bankers will be exempt from the clause for five years 3 This means in effect the US owners of Mercantile have five- years in which to make an order ly withdrawal from Canadian banking Now that the Bank Act has streamlined and modernized what will the basic effect be on the average Canadian It appears that banks will act a little more Ilka regular businesses seeking out your patronage just like the corner WW The effects should be good I I I On behalf of the Newmarket Lions Club Music Festival Com mittee I wish to express our cere appreciation for the generous support given us by your news paper Your news items over the past few weeks the editorial No Sour Notes the time table set up and the festival results have contribute greatly to the success of our music week in Newmarket The Festival of Stars concert which was held Friday night In Trinity United Church proved as popular ever and the public by their presence in such large numbers was Appreciated by those who worked so hard to make it the success it tqrned out to be Thank you again for your tribution to a popular and worth- while endeavour iWDNCWlHENEWSFORlKBDIV FINANCE JOHN CRU1Z ANNOUNCED TODAY TO PILL THERE ISA Of SCHOOLS INONfflRIO AND THE COSTS OF Will CM TAKES TO RISE THIS Sincerely Gene McCaffrey President Lions Club Music Festival By Elizabeth toiler When the Centennial Caravan rolling Into town this week It is bringing Co its citizens a revival of their hiHtory and of into which they were born or have come by choice to be he link from past to future When the town festively lit up we may well find it Interesting and worthwhile take a tour of sight seeing around our streets and up may come a feeling sort of pride and the old thought of lie It So Humble Home even though there may be lacking the splendor of a showcase Town Hall among the VIBs very important build ings However In many good things it is not just the surface and appearance that does count When Newmarket goes reflect ing on the virtues of the founders and early settlers who will visit us In the Caravan a salute Is due this present generation in this particular locality In a mysterious and perhaps Canadian way these people thrown together from everywhere within our and maybe yesterday still are working side by side each day in smaller roups or large organizations pursuing goals of common benefit Out of a dozen residents all over town called last week at random were assisting at the Lions Music Festival two on their rounds of canvassing for Cancer one was preparing work for a church pro ject one just leaving for a cam paign meeting and two were vol unteering on the spot for yet an other cause True to the saying of yourself and if you cant of what you hare this is not a bad showing of right ways and of ideals Such spirit Is Unmatched al most nonexistent in other coun tries and the revered centennial figures If they could come alive would probably shake quite a few hands with due respect It does not hurt to mention things like this once In a while to recognize that as individuals we have not let the Fathers down as yet even if as a whole we to fall apart This country has been built on a foundation of good and dedicated people and this foundation seems still be standing solid in the ground i 1 I I THE ERA Serving Art Northern York Since 1852 mi DAVID HASKELL Editor and Publisher r SHEPHERD News Editor i Published every Wednesday at St Newmarket Ontario by the Era Express Company Limited v Subscription for two years for one year in advance Single are cent each Member of Newspapers Association and vnj J BMW MM Audit Bureau of 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