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THE EBA WED MAY 1970 VOL 119 NO Editorials Surprise party Threats of tax revolt briefs on personal abuse and destruction of school property further threats of vigilante action all sound like a story on racial strife in the deep south or Chicago and to suggest its nil happening in good conservative York County would appear out of reason but it Is A delegation to the York County Hoard of Education from a Scout and Cub group in East Heights left little doubt thai in that section the situation has deteriorated to the point where bypassing some of the legal red tape and the subtle handling of the situation by those concerned might logically be winked at by the gendarmes and secretly applauded by the public It is poor reflection on our times that group which is will ing to donate time experience and money to the betterment of youth should be insulted embarrassed and physically abused by some sections of those same young people While not advocating anarchy of even a mild typo the situation seems to indicate some positive action on the part of those who are being harrassed Some form of vigilante corps which could make a few surprise moves and mete out a little punishment of their own would do a lot to combat the uncivilized and disgusting behavior of a few morons who are spoiling a good thing for a bunch of decent kids in the Heights The ages of these hooligans has been estimated at still students by those standards Perhaps the big percentage of their fellow students who DO value their good name might take the matter in hand arrange a surprise party some night Regret his transfer We regret the transfer of Holland Valley Conservation Authority manager Derek to another area Mr Sterritt is employed by the Conservation Authorities branch department of energy and resources management and his provin- superiors have ordered his transfer June 1 He has been resources manager of the Holland Valley authority years just long enough to acquire an Intimate knowledge of the nnd its problems and a measure of bis success in that office is strong objection raised by Authority members to his transfer and endorsements of that objection by the town councils of both iiket and Aurora SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Life in the San Went for a today and had quite a reminisce with tho doctor who examined me It turned out that he was the secondincom mand at a sanatorium where I spent one of the most dreary years of my life He told me I wouldnt believe what ha happened to the San When I was there it held about 1500 patients It of the kids for no particular reason In those days I was on full pension I think it was a month and the government kept back of it to help pay for my keep So it was letters one a day Theres still a bushel basket of them in the attic full of purple prose what 1 the baby and stuff I feel But I shook down into it Hie I remember mostly the tilings and the funny tilings writing the Han radio station I played die for hours a day with the guv next bed and became a lole though erratic player tin- hot walk around And always hover ing in the air like a couple of vul tures were two things Surgery and your culture Surgery meant hacking out most of your ribs on one side to collapse a lung that was loo far gone test broke down within weeks you had another three or six months added to your sentence I was lucky All I had was a shadow on my lung I fell fine I never had a positive result from tests and I couldnt even muster enough sputum for a culture tint it still wasnt much fun Perhaps I acclimatized bet ter than most Id had a year in pri son camp not too long before good training for life in the San I had the gods I had been married weeks when the shadow on the lung was discovered About a week later something else was discovered My wife was pregnant We were about 200 miles apart with no money for train trips to visit This was the worst period How times change Nowa- of we hud establish was nourishing hut lousy like all institution fond One chap had a wife who smuggled in bacon and eggs and onions Every night about an hour after the nurses had snuggled down and while the night nurse smoked and drank coffee the action would for If it i lun maybe a birthday wed in and buy a mickey lit yes We had a bootlegger who was also a book maker among the patients He was tubercular and also diabetic dying on his feet hut be around the wards each day taking bets and Youd be surprised how far a mickey goes among four rases when they have not had anything stronger than milk for a month- Like most of life it wasnt all bad j Readers Dear Editor We wish to draw to your attention the fact that a recent arti cle of yours concerning the bank ruptcy of Mr Philip Jones contained in it remarks which my Client The Bradford Witness Publishing Com pany Ltd feels is damaging to companies which it purchased in Ma lOlJli Specifically in May 1069 my Client purchased two companies The Bradford Simeon Review Publishing Company and The Newmarket News which had been operated prior to that time by Mr Jones Subsequent to then my Client continued to publish The Bradford Witness but incorporated in their masthead the fact that thev had absorbed these other two have alreadv contacted Solicitors for the Bankrupt and they have indicated that they are preparing to change the heading of the court action which you apparently reproduced in your newspaper because of the detri mental affect it would have upon my Client We urgently request that you take steps to bring this matter to the attention of your readership specifically setting forth the fact that Mr Jones lias not or in the past months had any connection with either Tho Bradford Simcoe Publishing Company or The On music appreciation I dont suppose Mayor any real harm when ho declared his he Music Week in However ir were a Main Street merchant Id lie pretty unset about the whole thing Id feel hat if citizens were to take the may or seriously theyd spend the entire week up at he Plaza listening to Muzak which as we all knnw was originally designed to stimulate im pulse haying Either that or the younger generation may conceivably converge en masse on Main Street replete wilt transistors I create an awful din After all there are citizens In whom music is noise and nothing else And since yiuillg people like their music loud loud if they ran net it lor snapping fingers and of lei ill might Nevertheless in honor of isic Week I feel 1 should remainder of this column isle and in lark of ispilillg Ill til budding as plasticine Willi Ibis puilsCIlt we were supposed to mould the stun of animals and limine liked the taste so I ate it line I the whole to he a harassing tin Inc of mi loci ol ledge the iirddiau genius tiled ill the of Vlssl mi I heroine of an mils leal liinllallmiH To I It let I Minn a limn a emirlt horn In jail up until a fen Mind you I did have a little training in the field of music but I bat was when was four old Each lime recall Ibis period in mi life I am assailed In bitter regrets There of us and we were herded into the infants class now more commonly known as Kinder garten Once hey had us Imprisoned we Here tested for subject aptitude Im he psvehnneurotic types there were little blocks with letters on each a row with the same letter up I dont recall the rami- bail hut Ibnl I didnt heirs one thing that confused me as tiling In rule nine holes in but at that age I milts bull hose Impossible task it to make professional flautists mil thai one hole should be left tin- mil lilllc did she know how in such advice I ill out to he I sow her aboul years later after hey discharged her from the mental home She seemed much aged and her bund shook tremulously And she was stone deaf poor Around the county By HASKELL A stroll down by Fairy Lake the other day reminded me of one of the most poignant birdhuman stories that ever witnessed What reminded me of the story was how tame the ducks and at Fairy Lake are They arc tamo and unafraid of humans largely because of the kindness of one man Bill They returned to Newmar ket tins spring and were fed by Bill and other birdloving residents of the by oodles more of little ducks and Its well worth a walk down lo Fairy Lake with your children and dont forget t bring some bread or grain along Anyway the story I recalled took place in a northern Ontario com munity about 15 years ago It was in late fall anil winter approach ing rapidly This community had a small lake in it and a flock of Canada Geese which had been fed all sum- by people such as Bill and his friends As many of you know the Canada Goose is one of two animals on earth humans not included which for life The Canada Goose if its mate dies will not marry again but remain a widow or widow er for the rest of its life It was time for the flock to head and thev off all but for two birds One was a gander with an injured wing and the other was his mate For days after the flock left the goose urged her crippled mate to take off only to have him flop into the water as the ice crept rapidly out from Finally when there was only a small patch of water that way through the frantic of ro took off for the south This drama had boon watch ed daily by the entire town and it was thai something bo done to keep this bird vivo so it Men tig boats id back to ami another swath hat od in another direction he had gained altitude lues to got his heatings perhaps to say thank you to the kind of this northern Ontario community NY at the lake raised soma children Keep up the good wo Bill toITera Serving County Since 1852 Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID HASKELL Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor GEORGE News Editor Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario by Inland Publishing Co Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies 15c each or by carrier per month Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Sec ond Class Mail registration number Phone Newmarket Charles St Phone Aurora