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THE ERA WED NOVEMBER 20 1968 VOL 117 NO Editorials Dear Editor In the Era a few weeks ago there was an article about libra Difficult choice difficult choice when they go to Newmarket the polls Dec 2 Their most difficult choice is in their selection of whom they wish to represent them as mayor for and 1970 Both Reeve George Richardson and Councillor Tom have long distinguished records of- community service Both men have the confidence of the community as they have served on town council for many years Both have shown leadership qualities in the past and both are men of principle Both are in favor of the towns Urban Renewal Scheme Mr Richardson feels that it should be approved in its present Mr Surgeoner feels that some changes should be made in it But whoever is elected will serve Newmarket well The Era congratulates Deputy Reeve Clare Salisbury in his acclamation as Reeve Reeveelect Salisbury has the knowledge and exper ience to well serve his post The Era also congratulates Councillor Bruce Eves in his elec tion by acclamation to the deputy reeves chair Mr Eves acclamation means that he obviously has the respect and confidence of the electorate As well as having a difficult choice in the mayoralty race Newmarket voters are faced with choosing six councillors from candi dates Making it doubly difficult is the fact only two of them have had previous council experience This years list of council candidates shows a broad spectrum of the world of business and commerce There are teachers merchants businessmen contractors and factory workers All are excellent candidates all of which makes the New market voters choice this year a very difficult one Lively contest Theres promise of lively contest for seats on Aurora Council Every office has at least two candidates Councillor Dick IHingworth should defeat incumbent Mayor Clarence Davis Councillor Evelyn Buck has the top qualifications to make her the choice among three candidates for the reeves chair Murray has the experience and business acumen to make him the best candidate for the deputy The Era suggests that Ron Simmons Norm Stewart Paul Wright Dr E J Henderson Pete Miller and Walter Davis would be excellent councillors This team should make the years and good ones for the Town of Aurora SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley I hate November Dont worry do not have a plan for writing an almanac of the months But Im almost cer tain that most people share view of November It is a real bummer It may be beautiful in Adelaide Australia with bikini- babes on he beaches and the sun belting down But in the true north strong and free its as sad as the wreck of a oncebeautiful woman with nothing left but good bone- and great black bats under the eyes It is a time when night comes early and surly and we draw our shades and creep into the dark ness of our souls and contemplate with horror the five months ahead No wonder Guy and the other guys in on the deal tried to blow up the English king and parliament on Nov in the famous Gunpowder Plot But it was probably so ruddy dank that they couldnt keep their wonder World War I ended on November 11th Even those tough and stubborn November Its a month of soaring fuel bills last years rubbers van ished into thin air mud and wet leaves tracked onto the clean kitch en floor A month of putting on snow tires a day too late storm windows a week too late and study ing for exams a month too late Its a gray month This in Canada is symbolized by Grey Cup Day Isnt that appropriate It couldnt have been a Lord Brown or Blue or Green or any of those distinguished names who donated our football cup It had to be a Lord Grey Oh I suppose for the lunatic fringe of our population November has its merits Its deer hunting month when one can go out ami muddle around in the marshes for The only com ment I have here is that the deer population is steadily increasing like Skinny the deer And its a grand month for those other nuts the rain bowtrout fishermen 1 cant think of anything on those boneshak ing moistladen Novemlier morn ings up to your navel in icewater more conducive to a long happy life Pull of arthritis neuritis bursitis and plain old rheumatism- November has a certain grim charm for the misanthrope the guy who wants everybody to be as mean as he is For once he knows everybody is as glum as he which makes him glumly happy or happily glum Its month when every normal Canadian gets a rotten cold which hangs on with vary ing degrees of misery until the 21th of May Its the month when Christmas advertising reaches a zenith of stupidity Its a month when your kids quit university when your roof springs a leak when your furnace decides it is worn nut When your old backache stunned by summers sun starts to aehn back When your cars fall line up turns Into a major overhaul Its a month when all your bestlaid plans of September turn aft and you realize you are running on three cylinders in stead of the usual five Its a month this year when you hail to lick a sixcent stamp for the first time in your life And your poor old Yank fri ends had to choose not Snow White but one of the seven I would say Is for the birds But even the birds have enough brains to head south in October Where does that ex pression birdbrain come from I hate November I would to our library We had it painted this sum and will have a new sign up I would like people to know re not closing Ella Pearson Dear Editor I recently moved to New market with the hope of joining a growing and energetic commu nity But with reading about the growing debacle over urban renew al I am beginning to realize that the community attitude is one that you expect from a small town with no idea of what the future can hold Sure its going to cost us the taxpayers money What doesnt Modern of the sad ly dilapidated downtown area is inevitable The question should be when will it come How can we expect Newmarket to grow into a bustling area when we have no regard for what this town will look like ten years from now If the taxpayers are wor ried about money why dont they stop to think that the money we put into urban renewal now will more families to the area increase the demand for homes and thus increasing our land values This expenditure should be term ed a good investment not a tax burden I am in the Younger Generation mentioned in Bill Gambles column November 1908 and therefore can vouch for his statements as to what the future will hold for us Presently this area is in the economic dol drums becoming stagnant with the attitudes of the older folks who still remember things as they used to be I have shop ped on Main Street once and I hope that I never have it be simply bad luck I am will ing to bet the answer is the luck of parking facilities lack of well presented merchandise and lack of an orderly atmosphere All of these problems can be solved by urban I Albert Sheldon Avenue Newmarket Ontario Newmarket Dear Editor After attending Monday nights counci meeting I would like to say that five members certainly demonstrated courage In front of a packed coun cil chamber of dissenting taxpay ers Mayor Drew Reeve George Richardson DeputyReeve Clare Salsbury and Councillors Mary Commission and Gordon Clelland stood firm on their belief I agree with urban renewal is unimportant but I did admire the courage of the lonely five who faced overwhelm ing odds Sincerely Donald Robinson A recent telephone sur vey indicated that only 37 per cent shopped on Main Street We all know where the other 63 per cent shop Did these moneycon scious Main Street businessmen ever ask themselves why Could Dear Editor It is to be hoped those individuals declaring themselves candidates for our county school board have a sincere interest in the education of our children The question foremost in their minds should be Will I serve the edu cational needs of our community Aside from the great financial responsibility the men serving on our new county school board must qualify as good admin isters When you vote for your county school board representative be sure to keep the above charact eristics in mind This position should not be a stepping stone to other political endeavors Yours truly Morrison THIS WEEK By Ray If Kennedy had lived It will be five years ago on Friday that President Kennedy was shot in Dallas It is bard to realize but if he had not been kill ed he would probably now be pre paring to turn over the White House to his successor after hav ing been president eight years For it is almost certain that had John Kennedy not been struck down the bullets which came singing down from the window of the Texas School Book Depository that he would have been easily reelected in 1964 At the time of Kennedys assassination the lines of the 1961 campaign were already becoming clear The Republicans were preparing to nominate Sen Barry and JFK was looking forward eagerly to a cam paign which he expected to carry by a good deal more solid margin than his whisperthin I960 victory over Richard Nixon President Kennedys last trip in fact was a sort of curtain- raiser for the campaign As is the privilege of all American presi dents JFK was on a nonpolitical lour of the West promoting con servation and the need for more science education when hi turned up in Dallas on the morning of election In it is likely that John Kennedy would have as sumed an even more con trol over US foreign policy There is ample evidence to suggest that he would have quietly released Dean Rusk as his Secretary of State probably placing in that post ei ther Defence Secretary Robert or his Attorneygeneral brother Robert Kennedy This done one can spe culate rather soundly that the whole course of American and world history from iflftM to would have been dramatically It is highly unlikely that had President Kennedy lived the US would become Involved to the extent it in Vietnam It is true that the first American advisors wont there under the Kennedy administration The there was evidence the US would insist on interna reforms in South Vietnam as the price of American backing 1962 that the Communists ire engaged in systematic ag- in Vietnam Despite this President nisi He learned and follow his own judgment not that of his Combine President Ken nedys increasing distrust of the military with his brothers grow ing emphasis on social and noli- conceivable that the US would have become so deeply involved in Vietnam if Kennedy had lived At home President Ken nedy asked the nation If an Am erican because his skin is dark mint enjoy the full and The struggle for civil rights would obviously have gone forward in President Kennedys second term And who would have stood as his successor in 1968 It could have been Lyndon Johnson hut not likely His Robert might have found a place on the Democratic ticket as the vice- president candidate Robert could have headed the Democratic ticket in 1968 but more likely the candi date would have been a political figure who is little known or heard from today Who that might have been no one can except that he would have either someone who his dropped from sight with the of the Kennedy dy nasty or someone for whom the ladder of political success was il ih Kimird death In either event he would enjoyed the guiding counsel By BILL GAMBLE The following are excerpts from the Minute Book of the New market Board of Trade dated Dec ember 20 1889 to February 1936 This agegreen relic reveal ing various forms of handwriting and strange gaps in time between meetings tells its own story of the struggles of Newmarket more than half a century ago For instance one dated September 19 1890 begins Board meeting in the Council Chamber and continues on the next line but few members pre sent ft went on to explain that the president Mr J expressed his pleasure at the pro posed manufacturing establish ment but it did not state the name of the factory Oddly enough it wasnt until January 27 1911 that an other meeting took place Nor did the book give any reason for the 21year postponement It can only he assumed that lack of coordi nation and infrequent attendance of members had caused the more enthusiastic representatives to throw in their hands in a ges ture of hopelessness The next recorded meet ing dated October 1911 dealt with the locating of the Harding Motor Car Co In Newmarket Messrs Brunton Cane and Field became the committee appointed to investigate the standing of the Harding Car Co a duty which took them to London Ontario On November the action was approved by un animous vote A resolution sub mitted to the property owners granting a loan to the Harding Co was carried by a vote of for to against The Minute Book contains no explanation as to whv the Harding Car Co never did locate in Newmarket Grand Trunk Railway System ask ed for gate protection at the rail way crossings on Water St Tim othy St and Huron St A Mr P J Lynch of the replied saying I will be pleased to look into the matter at the earliest opportunity That was August 19 On June 3 Newmarket Board of Trade held its monthly meeting in the Fire Hall and it must have been a real honey of a meeting Here is the Minute Books account of it President in the chair Correspondence read and ordered placed on file Mr ton vacated the chair and Mr Cane took over Mr tendered his resignation President and hoped it would be accepted Mr Aubrey Davis in speaking wish ed his name to he withdrawn from the membership Mr J Davis in speaking tendered his resigna tion The vicepresident tendered his resignation Moved by Mr seconded by Mr Pearson that all resignations he accepted carried Moved by Mr seconded by Mr Pearson hat the meeting be adjourned carried The recording secretary for some strange reason failed to record the reasons for this mass resignation THE ERA York Counly Slut Incorporating THE POST eve THE HERALD WIIMAM J Associate Publisher TERRY CARTER Published every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket Ontario the Era Express Company Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year 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