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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), August 30, 1967, A01

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J 1 CENTS 24 PAGES VOL NO 35 AND POST NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30 Newmarket Aurora Keswick NOT SERIOUS BUT Enrolment Up Schools Cr Christine Why te is jumping for joy above at a windup dance at Willow Beach over the weekend and next weekend will he her Inst chance to kick up her heels before she has to face a scene similar that depicted by the at left Huron Heights principal Lloyd Shepherd looks pretty grim now but hell be smiling by the time his students come filing through the door for another year at school NEWMARKET Enrolment is up in al most all northern York County public schools and high schools but administrators feel confident that the institutions can absorb the increases without drastic changes Dr Williams Secondary School in Aurora records the largest increase for the three area high schools with an estimated increase of students bringing this years enrolment there to 1135 Huron Heights Secondary School Is sec ond with an estimated increase of 28 stu dents bringing its expected total to Fred Bradley principal of Newmarket District High School predicts that enrol ment there should remain nearly the same Man Dies Of Stab Wounds At Lake Wilcox VANDOKK A Toronto man was dead on arrival at Newmarkets York County Hos pital Sunday night as a result of stab wounds near his Lake Wilcox cottage Police believe the murder weapon was a sharpened sapling left by a road construc tion crew Dead Is Talvo Kapsi 31 of Blvd Toronto a University of Toronto pro- Police said that the dead roan along with a friend who was visiting him went to in vestigate some noise near his cottage Mr Kapsi and his friend John Ferguson of Toronto chased four teenagers into the dense bush The four left their small car behind Police said that Mr Kapsi fouml a 22 rille on the back scat of the abandoned car He threw it into the bush and broke it Shortly after two of the youths who had fled returned to the car whereupon Mr Kapsi and Mr Ferguson began chasing them again Mr Ferguson lost his quarry and return- Dies Suddenly A wellknown East Township merchant died sud denly over the week end Ernest proprietor of General Store at Holt died after a heart at tack Mr also was a school bus driver Mr and his wife were Inspecting some property they owned near Campbell- ford The heart attack on the way home and Mr died In hospital He is survived by his wife Doris and a son Scott A daughter Margaret Ann pre deceased him Funeral services will be held from Lewis Funeral Home Mount Al bert at pm Wednesday to the clearing where the car was parked He found Mr Kapsi lying In the grass He called for assistance from the cottage and took Mr Kapsi to hospital The site of the slaying is north of the SIderoad near the continuation of the 2nd Concession of Whitchurch Township At this point the road is only a trail as con struction crews are clearing the bush in pre paration for road widening Police said four Hill youths In their teens planned to scramble a term they used to describe hillclimbing In a small car Whitchurch Township Police led by Police Chief Fred Mason arrested Robert David of Hill at his home early Monday morning and charged htm with noncapital murder and manslaughter He appeared In Newmarket Magistrates Court on Monday and was remanded with out plea Bail was set at Newmarket athletes defeated Aurora athletes at a track meet held Saturday Among those competing were Joachim Benson Steve Steve Waddlngton Hose Susan and Philip Cowley For it full report and more photographs please turn to Page as last year with approximately students Since the addition to Newmarkets Prince Charles School is not completed there will be some staggering of classes there for ap proximately two months according to Hen derson King supervising principal of New market Public Schools Mr King reports that grades five through eight will be affected by the staggering of classes there The delay In construction of the addition to Prince Charles School wilt affect class rooms Mr King explained that the addition only involves six new classrooms and an auditor ium but students who would have been in these rooms will have to be shifted to six other classes which will cause the staggering method to be utilized Supervising Principal Billings of the Aurora public schools said there will be the usual shifting of students in Aurora in volving students from the Aurora Heights School and Regency Acres school moving to the Church Street school Mr Hillings reports that there is nothing unusual In these shifts as they have been used for the last few years On the Fast scene there will be the controversial transferor Grade 6 children from Maple Leaf School In Fast Heights to Park Avenue School In Holland Landing Former Maple lenf School students trans ferred to Park Ave School Holland Land ing will be picked up at four locations by school busses One bus will leave Stop l the Pcnn Ave loop near Ave at am move on to Silvcrbirch and Cherrywood Drive and make the third pickup at Ave loop at approximately Septonne Ave Bus service from the west portion of Bait Heights starts from Walter Ave and at 830 am travels north on Highway to Poplar Dank Side- road west to St north to Morn- Ontario England Soccer Match Definitely Off NEWMARKET Plans to stage a New market England vs Newmarket Ontario soccer match here In conjunction with Can adas birthday celebrations have died a natural death A front page story in the Newmarket August 3 Indicated nothing has developed in connection with the pro posed match The Journal story reports Mi nor Soccer officials in Newmarket Ontario wrote in May suggestlag such a match The program would hove involved flying play ers and four adults to Newmarket and billeting them here for a period The tetter sent to the Newmarket Urban Council was discussed and turned over to the Newmarket England Sports Develop ment Council John Brady secretary of that body immediately wrote minor soc cer officials here with regard to the pro posed match but so far according to Journal report no reply had been received from Newmarket The original proposal was to have our British namesakes play here during the month of August Mr Brady thinks it is loo late now to plan a trip here Newmarket Minor Soccer officials here were not available for comment on Monday Indications are that following the original letter no further action was taken to pro mote the goodwill match It Is hoped local officials can be contact ed later this week to shed additional light on the reasoa for the delay in answering the letter from the Newmarket England Sports Development Council Sideroad east to Highway 11 then north to Holland Landing school and Park Ave school East Gwilllmbury public schools enrole- Is up 114 students making a total of for the coming school year according to Mrs Daisy Crone administrator of East public schools A Keswick Sportsmens Show KESWICK The Jersey Businessmens Association First Annual Trade Fair drew crowds of interested spectators to the Arena on Opening Night August 24 North Reeve Joseph Dales officially opened the Fair by bringing greetings from Council and went on to com mend the Jersey Businessmen for the exhibi tors they had attracted to the area He also This is not a quantity show but a quality show He concluded his re marks by saying arena manager Earl Gra ham had asked him Why dont we have a Sportsmans Show here and according to Dales If he feels it can be done Im sure it will be Pair Chairman Buster Baker also spoke welcoming everyone to the Fair and referred to the exhibitors by stating the mer chandise and services offered were dollar- wise and valuewise from local merchants He introduced the president Wil liam Honey who told the crowd his asso ciation had been Instrumental In obtaining street numbers and lighting in certain areas of the township and were at present working with Lake Simcoe Tourist Association putting up promotional signs on the high ways Worthy of note was a booth sponsored by the Sutton and District Association for the Mentally Retarded who were busy jumping the season offering attractive Christmas cards for sale Some of these cards were de signed by the children themselves and can be purchased upon application to Ray Nash at A total of booths were rented at the Fair and It Is hoped to have even more avail able for Newmarket Woman Killed In Crash KESWICK A Newmarket woman was killed early Sunday her husband and another man seriously Injured in a twocar headon crash on Don Mills Road Dead Is Sandra Harper of Gorham St Her husband Paul 23 believed to be the driver of one car is In only fair condition In York County Hospital with multiple In juries Driver of the second car John Archibald of Keswick is also In fair condition with similar Injuries Archibalds pet dog was also Injured and is being treated by a Sutton veterinarian East Gwilllmbury Township have been unable to determine which direction the cars were travelling The accident oc curred one mile south of the Jerry Pollock of Keswick gives his young jmw Bjrryaftw good why Ice fishing at Lake Simcoe Is no fascinating The Ice hut was on dis play by KeffeA Marine of Keswick at the Jersey Businessmens Association Trade Fair which many to the Keswick Arena last

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