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20 PAGES VOL 119 NO 15 CENTS PRD5PECniQDMy ERA York ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1970 market Aurora 15 CENTS seek restoration of tax balance The kids know how to keep their cool NEWMARKET Prospects for residential tax relief appear gloomy this week despite York County Councils decision to seek restoration of the tax balance that existed before reassessment After lengthy debate last week a divided and confused county passed a resolution calling for an alternative to the two tax relief measures recently passed by the Ontario Legislature The resolution asks the pro vince to pass a special bill allowing the countys residential ratepayers to pay the same proportion of the tax load as they paid In 1969 before Yorks reassessment was completed County councils resolution also urges York municipalities to collec tively reject the provinces two tax relief schemes and await the new legislation requested by the county Judging from last weeks debate however it appears unlikely that all York municipalities will reject both existing bills And county council has no power to enforce its resolution among member municipalities The is simply a request both to the municipalities and the province And moments after the vote was taken Warden Gordon Cook suggest ed that the legislation and bylaws committee make recommendations re garding Implementation of Bill one of two tax relief laws offered by the province The vote was 13 for eight against with three abstentions But the debate continued well after the resolution carried Newmarket Reeve Clare Salis bury whose committee presented the resolution told The Era last week he would seek authority to take a county delegation to Queens Park to press for implementation of the resolution Hut he said he wanted to await official reaction from local councils before going to Queens Park To date only Newmarket and Aurora Councils have officially supported the resolu- the legislation sought by the county municipalities would re apportion the tax burden by applying different mill rates to residentialfarm and industrialcommercial properties Reassessment resulted in a marked shift in the tax burden from industrialcommercial to residential- farm properties this year a devel opment that has raised vehement pro test from residential ratepayers throughout the county During the debate John McLean told council that if you support either one of the provincial bills youre giving tacit support to the tax shift But Township Deputy Reeve Tony Roman who led opposi te REEVE EVELYN BUCK Tax relief is sadistic Reeve Buck NEWMARKET Aurora Reeve Evelyn Buck last week accused the provincial government of using slop py slovenly legislation to deliberat ely Inflict a seemingly Insoluble tax problem on York County She told The Era In an Interview that she believes the provinces two tax relief measures were never In tended to provide relief The laws Rills and place county mu nicipalities In a damned if you do damned if you dont position she said Reeve Buck called the two bills a sadistic solution to the taxation problem She charged the measures were designed to take the heat off the province by throwing the problem back Into the laps of county leaders She indicated that she felt the province had used the bills as a re taliatory measure against county poli ticians who In recent months have been highly critical of the province for the tax shift resulting from mar ket value reassessment might find it advantageous LWJ one of the provincial meas- I opposed the recommendation reject both bills LULLKJI King Township recreate If treatment as he joins he kids during the I last week at Mill Soaking their lead I Chapman Diana and Cathy gets the splash heated dispute at Auroras Regency Park recrea m field day is cooled oft TOP LEFT Paul Parks interest the shade dgson in til TOP own Marie RIGHT a with a hook drew the attention of Lois and Lynn Rye appointment unfair LaMorre Reeve Buck queries Rettie appointment NEWMARKET Aurora Reeve Evelyn Buck questioned the authority for the appointment of Jack Rettie to the position of chief administrative officer of the new Region of York at a York County Council meeting last Mrs Buck pointed out that Gar field Wright the Regions first chair man announced Mr appoint ment She said Mr Wright has no au thority to make the appointment According to the legislation creating the Region of York the chief administrative officer is to be ap pointed by the first regional council which would also determine his The regional council wilt be el ected Oct 5 Mr former chief engineer with the Toronto and York Roads Commission and the engineer for the County of York was appointed to the regional administrators posi tion two weeks ago bury Township council seat vacated by Garfield Wright is unfair and runs completely contrary to the wishes of the electorate Randy who ran fourth in the race for three council seats in the last election charged last week Mr a school teacher lost the election last year by 17 votes In a telephone conversation from Thunder Bay Ontario where he is taking a summer university course he charged the township councils sel ection of Mr Rye an East said he understood his name was not even considered at the meeting at which it was decided to offer the post to Mr Rye Mr Rye has since indicated he will accept the seat although when he left politics prior to the last election he said he was retiring for good I feel I at least have the right to have my name brought before council said Mr who said he had hoped to fly cast to attend yesterdays township council meeting He said he cancelled the plan when he discovered the trip would cost him the two university credits he has been working towards this summer Instead he attempted to recruit a delegation of supporters by tele phone to appear on his behalf Frank Connors of agreed to represent Mr but had to withdraw his name from the council agenda when he discovered the meeting was scheduled for yester day afternoon instead of yesterday evening Mr Connors couldnt get the to attend an afternoon meeting Mr who is a resident of East Heights said lie intends to run for a seat on Newmar ket council in the Oct 5 election lingworth undecided AURORA Mayor Dick worth is virtually certain to run for reeleclion this fall There are no apparent reasons why I should not be a candidate he told The Era last week But he declined to make a firm declaration of his intentions to seek the mayors job and the regional coun cil seat that goes with it There are still two months to go before elections Mayor Illing worth said If I make a firm commit ment at this time wherever I go whatever I do could be construed as electioneering For this reason I see no useful purpose in making a firm Former mayor and reeve Clar ence Davis is the only announced can didate for mayor to date Incumbent Reeve Evelyn Buck who says shes giving serious consideration to the King shooting KING CITY A 32yearold woman is in York County Hospital after a gun exploded Friday night and the buliet entered her foot Mrs Wilhelmina Harris was taken to the hospital after an alleged alter cation with her husband who was carrying a rifle James Harris of Aurora has been charged by King Township Police with dangerous use of a fireman and also causing bodily harm Constable William of King Township investigated after he had received a call about 530 pm to go the Poplar Lane Florist Deputy Reeve Roman suggested instead that York ask for uncondition al grams to give relief to the residents hit hardest by tax hikes due to re assessment Reeve Salisbury said his com mittee could see no relief whatso ever in either provincial bill and his sentiments were echoed by Reeves Don of Richmond Hill and Evelyn Buck of Aurora If any one uses either bill God help them warned Reeve He said he supported the county resolution adding that while its not a cureall its concept was superior to the two Ontario bills If we can make it work in the County of York I suggest we can make obsolete most of the legislation already passed he said Reeve Buck accused the pro vince of passing a problem of its own creation back to the county despite warnings from two special committees that taxation on 100 per cent of mar ket value would result in a severe shift in the tax burden to residential ratepayers The province has consistently ignored all the recommendations of its experts Reeve Buck charged She added that the two provincial relief bills deny all logic and completely deny the principle of equity in pointed out that Aurora Council had voted to adopt Bill tone of the two provincial relief meas ures but that at a committee meeting last week had decided to support the said he had supported Bill 142 with reluctance acknowledging that its not an equitable thing He said how ever that Aurora Council had felt BUI offered relief to the larger num ber of people But Aurora will admit it acted see TAX BALANCE page WINNIPEG The Era won two prizes in Canadawide competitions sponsored by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association The awards were publisher David Has Associations annual convention being held here this week The Era placed third in the Community Service category and received an honorable mention for Front Page Excellence in the top result of editorials and articles about the Green Slime on the Holland River As a result of The Eras outcry the Ontario Water Resources campaign and the ensuing public Commission announced recently thai the Newmarket sewage treatment plant will be the first location in the province for an antiphosphate treatment process The process using an inexpen sive lime treatment method wilt be installed next fall The honorable mention for Front Page Excellence was for over all impression and the use of the sixcolumn format More and more newspapers are switching from the traditional eight and nine column format to the modern six The Era was one of two weekly newspapers in York County to receive an award in the competition The Aurora Banner won one award the Charles Nolan Plaque for best allround newspaper in the lower to circulation group The Eras sister newspaper in the Inland Publishing Co Limited group the News walked off with the top prize for the best allround newspaper in the over 6000 circulation class as welt as winning three other prizes