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iijV fc j fwj OX- IS iS j- WED- JUNE VOL 116 No 23 Caff By Roy 1 X mm fc Were Off In Offset m ml ir This weeks edition of The Era breaks a tradition of years Since The Era has been printed by the letterpress method Now times have changed and The Era has changed with them The Era is being printed by the offset method The letterpress method was fine when readers were less dis- linating Setting type by hand was a slow and laborious way of dishing a newspaper Machines helped speed things up but letter- printing still could not give the clarity of reproduction that todays readers were entitled to receive Readers of The Era will now notice that the reproduction of photo- win be much sharper and clearer This Is accomplished mainly by the use of offset presses And sharpness and quality Is enhanced by using a better quality of news- it But in printing The Era by the offset method we havent tossed the good things of letterpress production Readers of this weeks Era will notice that they will not be jarred brand new type The type that you read in the news columns is the ie and we kept it the same because it is the best type on the market T- and his allies is that Israel must be destroyed and Palestine returned to Arab rule A mi The content of the paper is the same except theres a little more ling material and we kept it that way because the readers of The liked it and therefore made it the most widelyread newspaper in them York County We hope you like the change The Salvation Army The Salvation Army in the Newmarket area is winding up its campaign for funds Traditionally the Salvation Army seeks financial support during ie month of May But being the Good Samaritans they are Newmarkets Salvation Corps held off its fundraising drive until June Captain S Newman seeing that many other excellent charitable were seeking funds decided to wait until their campaigns id finished The Salvation Army campaign started slowly early this week and now rolling along in high gear Most homes and businesses have been but there are still a number to be contacted and inevitably some will be missed If you are not called on you can make your donation to Captain by telephoning The Salvation Army is on the job days a year hours a day The work of this organization merits your support More Apparent This year our Centennial Year newspaper editors are bombarded every conceivable kind of press release regarding the birth- lay of Canada Some editors have become fed up with so much Centennial pro banda that they have written editorials saying enough is enough lets stop all this 100th birthday nonsene Not so at The Era Keep the press releases coming although per cent of them will lever be published Keep the Centennial projects coming Keep up this inthusiasm for Centennial Year If The Eras readers are involved in these projects then The Era ill be involved in them A young man writing on this page deplores the lack of flags and banners flying about Newmarket He points out that other com- are flying flags and Centennial is apparent in these communities Centennial is more than apparent in Newmarket The residents of Newmarket have gone about celebrating Year in more tangible ways then flying flags Organizations are producing projects that our citizens can parti- in A hockey or baseball tournament an evening of drama or barber shop harmony a church service or a flower show will be remembered much longer than a flag flying ear Mr Editor As everyone in Canada is well iware this year is our Centennial We are now years Id as a nation 1967 Is a year in each Canadian should stand ill and proud to announce I am Canadian This year Mr Editor I have eh fortunate enough to travel from British Columbia to New foundland I have visited or flown every province and have vaca- In a number of them I have come to know a few people In the different sectors of Can- la and this has been an educa tion in itself One thing most of these Canadians had In common was festive spirit of celebra tion Last week I returned home to Newmarket for the first time since Christmas 1966 as I at tend University in Nova Scotia As usual and especially after my five months absence and extensive travelling I was very pleased to to my home town but other hand I was a bit Where are the Centennial tivlttes the Canadian banners stretched aero main street the Centennial flags flying and a town In Edmonton from every lamp flew three Canadian luUilw In St marked with of old fortresses and status com memorating their heritage and last but not least Montreals Expo Granted these examples are all large cities ami maybe little better off but let me cite some instances a little closer to home In this vicinity two towns that Impressed me in regards to their Centennial celebrations Aurora one realizes that he Is in a CANA DIAN town The lights and the banners across their main street especially the ones In the shape of the Canadian flag- are unique and demonstrates to any visitors that the Inhabitants are Cam In the swing of things In Beaverton each store on the main street Is decorated with at least one Centennial or Canadian Hag As many may or not aware our towns Council recently legislation to allocate some funds for some town Centennial this was good news and wel come to say the least but let us not leave the tusk of our towns MUSICAL INSPIRATION Song lyrics such i it i all 111 be with you in apple blossom time were undoubtedly prompted by such scenes In fruit stowing areas across Canada many such picturesque settings can easily be found SUGAR PICE few maps But any map will show the outlines of the State of Israel a silver of land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean which last month celebrated its anniver sary as a modern national home land for the Jewish people By Bill Smiley Take Pen In Hand By Eliubcih Whats the most common ques tion being batted about the coun try these days Thats right Its Are you going to Expo Well are you If not why not You cant afford it Of course you can You mean you cant afford to miss it Yeah you say but what about bread loot gelt money Nothing to it Anybody who cant make some fast money in this ridiculous world deserves to starve to death let alone not go Expo I have a few suggestions fact I have quite a few because Ive been giving the matter of our own trip some thought Ive dis carded one or two of them for various reasons but its every man to his own taste and one or more of them might be just the ticket for you Put your wife to work If shes already working and you still cant afford the trip have an auction of that old junk youve accumulate ed over the years This does not refer to your wife If you havent any old junfc of something Throw a bingo party you Bay All right then how about throwing a martini party at a rattle on the Monday of a holiday week end when everybody run out of booze Youd clear about veterans calendars cut off one of your arms and sell them door to door Come on you can figure out a gimmick Send your kids out mow ing lawns If you have no kids send your motherinlaw out mow ing lawns And If shes too de crepit insure her heavily and push her off cliff Arrange with a friend to hump your car gently from behind at a stop light then run screaming to the doctor ami claim you have a whiplash and collect bags of in surance No How about some black mail Know anybody whos run ning around with who shouldnt bo running around with anybody Have a moving vun In the middlo of the remove all your furniture then you sot firo to the house and claim Insurance 1 for it and the furniture You could clear on this one Speaking of moving vans how about pushing your wife or hus band in front of a moving van provided you have a joint account and mutual insurance All of these are too course or common or complicated for you My you are an old poke So run a bookie joint sell pot hold up a bank if you want something simple Against your principles Well all right all right but it ahowa the depths of depravity to which I can sink In the middle of the night as I try to figure out how we can afford Expo plus all the redecorating my wife is doing Well you and your prin ciples have forced me into it Heres the deal Were going to have a contest Now we all love contests dont we I have been writing this column for about years without missing a week I want a week off to go to Expo Still with me There is a small village on the plains of Israel standing In the shadows of the hills of Samaria to Arab called Megiddo The Biblical force of history however names it as the site eft clearly endorses Israel as both the the last great battle among the Middle Easts only nations before Judgment Day Armageddon This little village is found 20th century Unable to uplift his people probably also unable to win a military dash the Nasser vj- desperate diplomatic gamble aimed at winning a moral Without Significantly maps produced in having to fight It Arab countries do not identify the territory by its generally- name Such maps will refer to the area as Jewish- occupied Palestine Thus come the violent disagree ments between Jew and Arab which have unsettled the Middle Bast threatened to touch off a new war of flame and fire in the lands which cradled civilisation- and created new tensions between the big powers Because the achievements of Israel have so overshadowed the still feudal way of life of its back ward Arab neighbors the over whelming sympathy of Canada and the West is with Israel in its current gallant struggle with the Arab Middle East While the Israelis were putting the land under the plow industry and fostering educntlon her Arab neighbors have remain ed trapped in the ageold poverty which has always gripped the masses of Egypt Syria Jordan and the rest of the Arab Middle East Even the socialist revolutionary Nasser has been unable to rescue Egypt from its tradi tional Jewish hatred It has thus been Nasser whose country has the least cause to fight Israel because it shares little common border who has invoked the absurd Moslem call for Jihad Holy War against the Jews In the century any na tional leader who incites his people to Holy War in the name of reli gion represents a philosophy which si VVs i i il A little trip us to the mining country will broaden the in quite a few respects Summer is later at ill spring only just ar riving the green is very timid yet not sure if It survived V The traveller convention bound and in good spirits approaching from the Golden Horseshoe can feel that nature has not yet given in here to mans attempts to shape It to his desires Here are no soft meadows rolling greens today tomorrow turned Into concrete with grass still sprouting In Its cracks In these parts rock dominates the habitation and exploited under ground looks grimly upon what little growth is rooting slowly dying from the fames Eventually you see it buried all In its own residue to form on top of moun tains yet another mountain of slag The road still excellent and be ing kept in best condition will have a great many faithful surely must better belong tq along streams readers and no doubt a fair tering of unfaithful ones too Many of them write very well as I know from letters received For the best guest column sub mitted will personally send a cheque for along with an auto graphed copy of my latest book The latest one is the one I havent written for MacMillnn Company The other books I havent written were not published by McLelland- and PrenticeHall This handsome award so Im not J P Morgan will lie supple mented by the Telegram News Service Front St Toronto 2B They will either double or triple the cash award depending on their attitude when they rend Ihis which is first theyve heard of it Topic anything you like about 700 words Send all entries to address And there you are Cash If you win you can your choice You can hitchhike to Expo and blow whole bundle on high living Or you can hot it on a horse fly to Montreal and rough it at Queen This is Got cracking today the councils of modern diplomacy In the strategy which built Egyptian Israeli tension to the flash point Nasser and his Syrian allies first fomented bonier clashes to build a spirit of crisis Then came Nassers sudden de mand for withdrawal of the Unit ed Nations Emergency Force the pencekeeping group put together 10 years ago at Canadas behest which has ever since been patrol ling the border between Israel and Egypt SecretaryGeneral U has criticized for moving so quickly to bow to Egypts demands While it is true he had no option but to get the troops off Egyptian soil anything less would have amounted to armed occupa tion of a sovereign state the trag edy is that U Thant moved so quickly The crisis is one in which the slow negotiation of diplomacy might have dampened the fuse of war Instead the hasty withdrawal emboldened Nasser to close the of Aqaba Israels vital south- outlet to the Red Sea and thence to the Par East While the US and Canada have declared to be international waters the Soviets have Injected big pow er rivalry by backing Nasser in his action in ordering the Gulf closed and his threats to sink any Israeli ship using the waterway Tho Arab position as taken by Centennial spirit to I feel that each one of should do his part to make most of our first National birthday We shall only get out of what we put In to it and a birth day only comes once In a life time I feel that Newmarket is a great j little town and think we should show Canada that we exist Sincerely f rehabilitation abllitatlon A Canadian I WDrr ed places once homes now boarded up and left past villages made Op by trailers stationary for as long as work will last As everywhere yon find he- poverty with Its shameless broken dirty face But here there also is another kind of poverty that speaks a subtle hut a very touch- language The little huts defy ing in she the number of child ren visible in an array around a freshly painted church the trail- era with miniature fences in front protecting a handful of black soil in which a garden Is nursed along and in distance the yellow cloud emerging from the mines the that this la a way of lire that can not know It may strike you here that given equal chances there really are two kinds of poverty and one of them Is lived down decently and with some pride Life i quite different up here and are people will tell you about the rocks about the mlnework as if about think of thousand chances which you woukT rather take than live and work minis country yet up there many just have ma one chance but they use It I J 1 THE ERA xmm York County Incorporating J TNI POST fc THE HERALD DAVID Editor and I and fiiulaeai News every Wednesday at Charles St j- by the Newmarket Era at limited SubKripSooe for two yean lor one year Single copies each Mem ber Canadian and the Bureau- of Clrculattoh Authorised as Second MiU by the Post Office Depi for the payment of pottage In cash