ORGANIZED CRIME MOVING IN EG DEPUTY REEVE PARK Organ ized crime from Metro Toronto and the US is moving into East Gwillimbury Township DeputyReeve Gladys Rolling Speaking to members of the Park Ratepayers Association the question of better police protec- know hat organized mate businesses in the Metro area Our own department is having difficulty with Metro Toronto and United State- people coming into this area she drive Park Community Hall that because of this they may have difficulty getting a police squad car when they need one Earlier in the meeting Reeve Garfield Wright said council can put on for every people The reeve sold if Gwillimbury met that ratio it would double the townships budget He said the township Just bought two new cruisers agree with the We need a couple more police oars to make the signs you people worked so hard to have put up on the roads effec tive he said Neither Reeve Wright nor Depu ty Reeve Rolling Indicated to the meeting what office they will be candidates for 1 all the in months election ing but other than the three members mentioned only two showed up They were William and Randy Neither were invited to speak Hill Hodgson also attended When the arena question arose the reeve said if a majority voted in fa vor of it See PAGES VOL 118NO 15 CENTS Newmarket Sinceg852 Aurora ONTARIO WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26 Keswick Busrail commuter system planned for Newmarket New school should be twice as big mayor Tom The school board told council In a letter last week they now have funds to build the school which will serve Die Towercrcst and Highland Heights subdivisions and have started an architect drawing plans The mayor said current esti mates indicate each new home averages two school children and he said there arc 264 new homes in Towercrcst subdivision and in Highland Heights He said that all on Saturday and what a lovely par ade so many nice floats and did you see how funny all those clowns were and you were so nice waving and throw ing me all those kisses Wo were all so sorry you all but he bad cold lit my cold He cried when we told him ho had to stay home and keep warm but when we told him lots of you girls and boys had to miss that parade too because you had one that was going to miss the fun Well my dears I must go now we are keeping very busy here so that wo can be ready in time for that next big trip to sec you all Dont forget the Newmarket Jaycees arc working as my mailmen down there so send your letters to old Santa Newmarket Jaycees IJox 173 Newmarket My special elves are picking up the mail from the everyday That means 30 rooms not IS said the mayor I think their planning is plainly inadequate Councillor Rob Forhan com plained that the school board promised to planning board informed 1 school plat this agreement the- l for ordinate its recreational and other lies with the schools I think wo should direct our planning board to find out what in the area will really be with it from there said Forhan Mayor Tom added that council members on planning board remind tho planners that the gel it all a Love i Town taxes due in three installments next year council ruled last The three payments will be in June September and October Council voted down a suggestion Deputy Reeve Bruce Eves thai the first payment he made due in January so Ihe town wouldnt have to borrow to carry it through early part of the year Treasurer Stuart Parks told council the town do not have the facilities to handle an early billing and even if they did he said the bookkeeping costs would outweigh any saving in bank into- SANTAS PARADE Sunt his journey from pictures of Page 5 modified GO that expansion of bus depot facilities In North system NEWMARKET SNOW QUEEN OHrien will be the Newmarket Snow Queen Tor this winter She is he daughter of Mr and Mrs of Its a proud moment for her younger sister Virginia who gives her kiss lo celebrate j located In Highway 11 area In making the the Legislature this week Minister proposed that the CNR operate trains during the morning and three ST Councillors reverse order to buy regularlyscheduled meeting of council The decision to purchase had been passed by a 4i vote the previous Wednesday at a special meeting of coun cil Four members of council were absent from Wednesday meeting and seve ral contended they did not know it was to be a special council meeting Deputy Reeve Bruce Eves and Councillor Sene ca Cook both of whom were absent said they had been told would be a commit tee meeting Reeve Clare Salisbury who at the meeting said lie did not know until he get there that it was not a committee meoilng All three oppose the purchase The other absent member Councillor 15 Stephens who Is recovering from a heart said from his home last week ho would likely have supported the purchase had he been able to attend the meeting OHC manager resigns answers Kent gloves off NEWMARKET Former Mayor Bert Kent got a gloves off answer from Ontario Housing Corporations former regional manager last week when Kent appeared before town council to reiterate his objection to the proposed of part of the corporations Fairy Lake site for a high rise apartment told town council Monday he had resigned from the On tario Housing Corporation where he had been regional manager of the area be tween Newmarket and Rarrie for five years in order to handle Mr Kent off Hes building which a aid operate a threestorey sub- rent apartment building for senior ion withdrawing lone fo the highrise hi advised will he given building Kent clinked contrary between and the unable to maintain n rented apartments in the also charged that one lady apartment in the subsi ded bidding spent year in Florida and thai one of the persons lo move into the building and he was from Aurora first before in a speech mayor who indica te The Era that he in the towns next building vii built for the greedy It was built for ens not to become a pointing and the town includes a disability clause which allows the building manager some fused to vole acceptance for minutes of the controversial previous meeting Reeve Salisbury Deputy Reeve Eves and Councillors Seneca Cook and Herb voted down the minutes Vot- favor of acceptance were the mayor and Councillors Doris Blair and Bob For Councillors Aubrey Smith and Lou Stephens were absent The same majority then suppor ted a motion by Eves to change the min utes from special council meeting to com mittee of whole thus retroactively changing Ihe character of the meeting Mayor Surgeoner said later he vote killed the resolution to buy the ford St property Councillor Bob voiced the strongest opposition to the Eves think the motion is out of or der There was a quorum there and they accepted it as a special meeting he quorum He asked that council seek a legal opinion but found no support argued a vote on minutes can only be objected to if the minutes have been reported incorrectly but the during the evening rush hours between Richmond Hill and Torontos Union Sta tion The service would start in tho mid Mr Itobarls said that express bus service provided by Gray Coach Lines would connect the Richmond Hill train with Newmarket Aurora Oak Rid ges and Feeder lines termed by the government as minibuses would ope rate into these points from such commu nities as Mount Albert Keswick and Bradford Mr did not specify which communities would be served by Hide service where the demand called for He said that new bus depots would be located in Newmarket Aurora and Oak Ridges Mayor Surgeoner felt the north west section would be best suited for the Newmarket depot Theres plenty of room out there and wives taking their husbands to depot would have no trouble gelling in and out Mr felt the govern ments proposed combination bus and train service to Metro was sensible be cause long trains are slow and awkward getting in and out of Metro He warned that realistic bus and train schedules should be set up and the province and Metro should Immedi ately place a freeze on the development of old Jail properly If the present commuter sys tem proves successful the TIC use this land as a northern terminus for its subway system and train could an alternate route into Metro Mayor Dick Illingworlh of Au rora said the province should consider im plementation of an all rail service in fu ture an eventuality that would require laying about five miles of track to con nect Aurora with Richmond Hill He said the Governments that the point has gotten across to the powers that be Three killed driver jailed sentenced to nine months in a federal re formatory for criminal negligence in an accident thai killed a 14yearold Aurora girl and her grandparents from Newmar ket last July 26 Justice C D Stewart of Su preme Court of Ontario passed a sentence of nine months definite and one year in definite alter a jury returned a guilty verdict following minutes of deliber- operators licence was suspended for three years The accident in which was charged was a twocar headon col lision opposite Aurora Cemetery on High way south of Aurora Killed were Saunders 14 of 6 St South Aurora and her grandparents Earlby Moore and his wife Mabel of Davis Dr New- NO ANSWER FROM COUNCIL TOLD NEWMARKET have refused to answer a letter requesting that the firm fut- agreement to tell Newmarket 35 res industrial land fronting on the The town has offered for Towercrest gave the town an lo buy the land as part of the under which they built a home at the south end of town Last week Toronto lawyer David appeared before council rep- Dale Investments Ltd successor to as owners of the subdivision He said had bought the subdivision from Towercrest and asked the town to assume responsibility for now completed underground services in the subdivision Two weeks ago council had refused to assume the services unlit sold them the industrial land Greenspan actioiK he said Major Tom told him purchased Ihe lots fiom Tower- iverei by subdivision agree- also covered by the Tow a month ago we made purchase the land from under Ihe agreement They the services at least until we get a reply said the mayor He told council they ob liged to live up to all the terms of the rerest agreement and it covers all inds He said the town solicitor ad vises that the town withhold action on as You can sue if you want the mayor told the lawyer I dont think our town should suffer Town engineer George Ian told council the request that the town assume the underground services is in nature of a favor council Is quite within its right to wait Reeve Clare Salisbury added Weve been doing all the bending Later in the meeting council tabled a resolution calling for it to assume responsibility for the underground