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MAIN ST MALL RING ROAD SYSTEM MORE PARKING Propose 4 million 5 stage plan to renew downtown Newmarket Towns cost 15 million or PAGES VOL NO 10 CENTS Since NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 1968 Newmarket 8952331 Aurora Keswick 47G4882 A fivestage plan or the redevelopment of downtown Newmar ket at a cost of has been pro posed by a firm of planning consultants LIBERALS ROBERTS YORKSIMCOE WINNER Drinking of beer seen on Main St by Mr fee votes or The Don received of Mr icons to lie swept GwiHImbury Township by mure than voles and surprisingly beat Mr in King Township by nearly votes Newmarket went Tor Mr Roberts over Mr by nearly voles Hut Mr won as expected in die North and West part of the riding However nosed out Mr Roberts in West by only fi votes Said Mr McCutcheon as he admitted don fee sorry for myself defe but feel sorry for the people of Cai i four From the beginning the campaign waa a bailie between the Senator from and the 34yearold John Roberts Mr McCutcheon was nominated by the Conservatives a year ago and he resigned his Senate seal in midMay to fight for a House of Commons seat Mr Roberts whose five years in Ottawa as a civil ser vant and executive assistant to Maurice made him an outsider every where chose because it was a crucial riding large and diverse enough lo cover all facets of Canadian fight between lie Iwo men was a clear cut contrast In style content ami approach government A McCutcheon landslide predicted at the beginning of the campaign seemed Iq falter before the end Roberts appear ed lo gain steadily on him while candidate Dor was lo assure ids supporters tlint a vote for the wasnt wasted instead it was a guarantee that the government would slay awake On the eve of this election at a Jny- sponsored all candidates meeting on Sunday night in Newmarket each candi date was still predicting his own election During an intensive minute question period by the audience of one man asked each hi turn Arc you going lo Community Kiwi Vim him KlilK Aurora Newmarket West Tottenham InnlHfl NEWMARKET A suggestion from Councillor Seneca Cook that council ask for a regular report from the Police Department brought on some ralher healed debate in town council Monday night Councillor Tom in parti cular backed up Mr Cooks proposal for a report and said he felt there was cer tainly room for improvement in condi tions as they were at present on the Main St It is lime we had some form of control and some action I have i drinking beer on the Main St and two that could be classified as drunk am sure that other business men Two f amities find ho uses Prospect St families and nine Roberts estimated Ills victory at protesting lhat he never indulged in the numbers game of fered that as a good Conservative Im conservatively optimistic In 1005 about 200117 people voted in the area thai now mnkos up Of these 11500 voted for the Pro Conservative candidate 11111 voted for the Liberal candidate voted NOP and ail voted Social Credit Hie southern iwrtlon of Hie riding vol mainly Liberal itiiiilty King I Whitchurch McCutcheon I 1137 15570 1368 1335 Slouffville Newmarket 1 0417 Aurora 1570 1118 Vaughan The ninth and wesl pari of Ihc riding voted Conservative The Social Credit took Mil voles and the others in unity too KM I33 llll 1 187 121 Tottenham 141 180 The nil candidates last Sunday was a two hour summary of the whole campaign The format was similar to the Debate between nnlldnnl leaders on tele visions a couple of weeks previous but the evening was livelier perhaps he cause of Ihc jovial alert Audience who even managed a bit of heckling despite orders from chairman lo refrain from peaking out of turn Hie meeting almost was held without who had earlier accepted mi Invitation In an ecumenical church service in Toronto He showed up after Huberts pressed for a public debate When opened tho meeting minutes late he looked If anything miffed at having to bo there Sunday political meetings in Ontario he said were overflow of Later during ipicst Inning he ap ologized for his lienvyhanded humor He criticized the calling of an el ection the Liberal record derided the pretension the NOP familiar themes to anyone who bad attended his speeches He heaped scorn on for hav ing made no statement of policy And he added a nolo of sarcasm whon ho re marked that lie hud Invited Roberts lo a McCutcheon picnic attended by 1600 Sec Page IB Mr and Mrs John Campbell and their children Mary 7 Donna Stephen and JohnPaul and Mrs Donna Ham- Hi and her five children Jimmlc 10 months Dennis Debbie Dougie and Dannie 12 were ordered out or home they shared because Hie new own er wanted to modernize the place For a month both families scoured the country looking for accommodation Nicy could afford Whenever they found a place that rented for a reasonable price the owner objected lo more than two children If the owner didnt mind four or five children the rent was beyond Last week both families were asked lo leave the Prospect St within three days The Campbells decided they wouldnt insist on staying the end of tho month their original data to leave Mr Camp bell gave up Ills job at Industries and went to Toronto to look for work Mr Campbell lias found work in Tor onto and because of his familys plight administrators of low rental housing there are giving him priority The Camp- expect to have a home Iwo Mrs Is still living In her home in Newmarket hut her situation has brightened loo Hie story of Mis housing problem in weeks produced sympathetic calls and offers of tempor ary help And one man offered them a house Arrangements havent been completed yel lint apparently the man Is willing to give thorn a four bedroom house for a month rent Just to keep the children together And new owner of Prospect St house Is willing to allow Mrs to slay until the end of July tho other house becomes available on the street can back me up and ex perience the same conditions- I find empty beer bottles thrown Into store entrances and there has been one at the rear of my store for a consider able lime without any license plates on it Another vehicle Is parked In the arena area with a flat tire and this has been there for weeks Asked if he had reported Itiesc In cidents to Ihe police Mr said that he had in many cases but by the time they had arrived the trouble was over There arc dozens of fights and 1 have reported many of these myself I do feel that the Main St area is not patrolled properly Only lasl Sunday morning two young men were ejected from the restaurnnt at am and a fight started when were outside Mr Cook sold We have good police farce hut are getting a bad it Is council who get the complaints Some of you will remember that we hail troubles In 1959 In this manner and if we Ignore some we arc head ing for the same trouble again Council discussed the possibility of again taking action on loitering by- taw which would allow the police to interfere under this section Mr disagreed Ihe suggestion Hint thought should be given to a criminal conviction which might mar young mans record for the rest of his life I have talked to magistrates law yers and police on this matter and they feel lhat this contention is only myth most of these conviction last only a few months or a year until they are cleaned off the records The Police Committee will take up the case with tho Police Chief and a report will bo brought back to coun cil that each stage will last replacement with new buildings contain ing retail and facilities offering a modern services as possible Creation of a ring road system to relieve traffic volumes In commercial Creation of a mall on Ihe existing Main Street rightofway Construction of a system which will eventually remove fairway level Provision of adequate and conven ient parking for both short and long term close to retail shopping area of existing obsolete buildings owned by Office Specially for a York County administration centre Development or existing vacant land along the Holland for parkland Development of area tor public housing for the relocation of persons dis placed by the Urban Renewal Scheme slon of civic uses and to provide locu tion lor municipal offices The scheme takes in Ihe area bounded by Eagle on the south Church SI on west Millard Si on north and Prospect St on the east The scheme also Stage One will Stage Two The report points out that Newmar ket overall financial picture Is sound The report says that Newmarket has a high percentage of tux arrears which Is successfully being red iced The per capita debt amounting lo in la considered average or a town of such See Iagc Two dairies merge NKWMARKKT Farms Dairy and Cousins Dairy Ltd will at Die end of June In making the announcement president J Ilradshaw said that his firms production capacity will easily accommodate Iho business from tho two firms Don and Archie Cousins of the Cousins Dairy will directors of John continues as director and manngcr of the Kami and Jack director and company trcas- IT the Companies of Mm Mm Davie 11ml Mrs Sanderson received their life lioliKlon tin Sunday at St IaulH Annllrnn Church Commissioner Mrs Davenport and Mm May Iu rmtllnnnl Secretary also intended Canon II Rhodes performed the ceremony Itoillilcnls are Ialsy llusscll Jennifer Sims Klefer Sylvia llndsny Ann HookGreen and Double Holder Photo