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MERCHANTS PLAN MAIN ST MALL POLLUTION NEWMARKET Main St from Park Ave to Water St will be closed off for a shopping mall during the first weekend of October Town councillors have approved the mall but await the next council meeting for formal ratification The mall which is being organ ized by the Main St merchants is to be part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the towns call for the threeblock long stretch to be closed to vehicles from am Friday Oct 2 to midnight the be completed in time to hold the open ing earlier and pressure is mounting from the Redmen Junior hockey club to have ice in the arena by the first October weekend The first home game of the season is sched uled for Oct 4 Recreation officials say it takes four or five days to get ice in the arena No matter what the committee decides we will still go ahead with the mall said paint store owner Jack Groves the key organizer of the project Mr Groves said he already has the support of a majority of the Main have been invited to erect booths on the Main St during the weekend for moneymaking projects including a bingo and that the Newmarket Legion will hold its annual soap bos derby Saturday at 2 pm He said there is a possibility the Legion Pipe Band will parade the derby entrants from the Legion Hall to their Main St starting pate with sidewalk sales and other special attractions and there will he two street dances each with its own type of music The Legion and clowns will also be participating Other possibilities include in stallation of search lights at Davis Dr and Eagle and the 3rd Cone and and Davis Dr and the 3rd all on a balloon above the arena Id say this celebration will be second only to the towns centennial said Mr Groves He pointed out it will also give both shoppers and merchants two days to assess the impact of a Main St mall a project that has been talked about in town for many years Soapsuds leak near Greenacres PAGES VOL NO 35 CENTS Newmarket Aurora ONTARIO WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 1970 15 CENTS NEWMARKET The Ontario Water Resources Commission will be called in to investigate soapy water running out of a weeping tile drain from the Homo for the Aged into a ditch on Eagle St The flow from Greenacres then passes under Eagle St through Lions Park Residents of Scott Ave say they have complained on occas ions to town officials but have re ceived no satisfaction They say that the ditch carries milkysoapy water which smells dur ing hot days and breeds which multiply in a nearby weedin fested lot Holland Valley Conservation Au thority Resources Manager Derek Ster- ritt took samples of the liquid flow ing from the Greenacres drain and from the ditch on Monday As he was taking his second FOR REGIONAL to face Taylor ELECTION CAMPAIGNS PICK UP STEAM Reeve in race Eves out NEWMARKET Newmarkets mayoralty race gained one candidate and lost another this week Reeve Clare Salisbury is in and Deputy Reeve Bruce Eves is out The race shapes up as a hot threeway battle among Incumbent Mayor Tom Reeve Salis bury and Councillor Bob Win- will assume Newmarkets first seat on the new York Regional Coun cil after the Oct 5 election his physician Mr Eves said he would throw his full support behind Councillor My doctor said there is no way I can run for mayor said the deputy reeve But Ill be running for some position probably for council Ho added that he may run for the towns second regional council but that he wait Mr Salisbury 10year veteran of Newmarket and York County po litics is completing his first term as reeve He previously served two years as deputy reeve and five years as a town councillor The 43yearold insurance agent listed experience as his primary qua llflcation for the towns top elected about regional government and am serving on a special committee pointed by the warden to study reg ional government Over the years Ive served on all the committees on the local council and most of the county council com mittees including the finance com mittee Salisbury has also been Instrumental in the countys fight against burdensome residential taxes caused by new assessment procedures He chairs the countys Bylaws and Legislative Committee which recently drafted a resolution asking the pro vincial government for meaningful tax relief legislation for York County Approved by county council that reso lution apparently fell on deaf ears at Queens Park The father of three daughters and a son Mr Salisbury has lived In Newmarket for 16 years Two declare for 2nd regional seat and former Newmarket councillor Tom Taylor will run for Newmarkets second scat on the York Regional Council on Oct 5 and Newmarket De puty Reeve Bruce Eves is a possible entry into the race Mr Taylor a Newmarket ac countant who sat on the town council Uncover error by Edwards NEWMARKET An error in an engineers arithmetic caught by a law yers sharp eye brought the Ontario Municipal Hoard hearing on the pro posed Edwards subdivision to an ab rupt halt Tuesday Aug Lawyer appear ing for the town caught the mistake in a two year old report on the capa city of Newmarkets western trunk sewer which had been prepared by en gineer Donald A former town engineer Mr and his firm of and Cockburn pro- Correction of the changed the report It had stated the system could accommodate new homes The corrected version said it was ade quate for The proposed Edwards subdivis ion would have 220 homes and a building industrial park About half of the homes were planned to drain into the western trunk The bal ance were planned to drain south east into the Holland River trunk The subdivision is planned for land west of Eagle Hills subdivision see TAX 1 1 CI IT page Mr a Davis Dr service station operator who lives in East Heights will ho a New market resident after the boundary shift next January so must contest a scat in the town Mr Eves a real estate salesman announced earlier this summer he for mayor week his physician lias ordered him not to run for he top spot Eves said he will bo a candidate but wont de cide for which office until ho sees whos running for roglonnl scat Ho has heart condition Newmarket Is entitled to two scats on the now regional council one goes to mayor and the other will be filled by town wide Mr Twinney said he feels his East experience gives him special qualifications for the job because tho townships makeup of REGIONAL page Smith to seek reelection NEWMARKET Councillor Aubrey Smith has announced lie will seek reelection to Newmarket town council Mr Smith a Main St hard ware merchant has served one term on council He said one of main rea sons he is seeking reelection Is to push for an updated subdivision agreement and new impost charges A subdivision agreement is Hie agreement between and town which is supposed to en sure that the builder pays his de velopments share of tho cost of town services to his pro Imp charges are the fixed costs per unit the subdivide must pay under the agreement Mr Smith has been pressur ing council to update its standard subdivision agreement for the past year firmly believe developers have been taking advantage this municipality for too long he said He said he also wants the town to hold onto the Newmarket Motors building and for bet ter possibilities for Its development ion many decisions are made In this town Then better proposals conic to light afterwards he sold Ho defended deletion of roads budget from the 1170 town spending I feel nil that was scrapped was Church St and 1 feel Lome Lome Ave should ho completed their candidacy for ell scats Councillors Mrs Doris Blair Herb Klines and Cook school teacher Randy and sample the slight flow suddenly in creased and warm soapy liquid star ted coming out of the drain He toured Greenacres and learned that there were a number of residents taking baths at the time the increased flow occurred Washing of supper dishes happens at about the same time the bath water is drained Mr feels that the sudden surge of liquid which normally goes into the sewer system is overflowing into the storm drains This is then car ried eventually to the Scott Ave ditch Meanwhile there is still no evi dence of where the weeds clogging Lands and Forests aircraft But tests taken last week show that the water is suitable for swim- However word has not been re ceived on how high the bacteria con tent is as a result of the stagnant Police raid uncovers large drug shipment NEWMARKET In a lightning like daylight raid Newmarket police assisted by the RCMP swooped down on a Vale Ave house and nabbed be tween and worth of marijuana last week We dont get hauls as big as this in Toronto very often one officer commented The raid came as a result of in formation received by the Newmarket Police Department Members of the force heard that a shipment was coming in from Wes tern Canada either by mall or by train They alerted Newmarket Post Office officials and CNR officials to be on tho lookout for a parcel addressed to a Newmarket man On Wednesday police received word from the CNR station that the parcel was in Police then staked out the CNR station the Vale Ave house and had officers watching the street from the nearby Royal Canadian Legion build- Ser geants Harry Diamond and Glen Phil lips along with Const Bob Wilson and Tom Young Four members of the RCMP assisted them Inside the house police discov ered nine packages of green mari juana weighing nearly two pounds Before the marijuana could be sold it would have to be dried and then ground up and mixed with an other ingredient If this was done properly the estimates that the finished pro duct could be sold on the illicit mar ket for between and Police believe only a small por tion of the haul was destined to be sold In the Newmarket area The bulk of it was to be sold in Toronto Arrested and charged with pos session of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking were Varley of Vale Ave and James Ward of Main St Both are free on bail Argus official denies rumor plant will close NEWMARKET Argus Cameras of Canada vicepresident Elmer this week scotched rumors his firm would be closing its Newmarket plant a id look a swipe at mayoralty candidate Boh for comments lie made about local industry There is no truth to the pre vailing rumors that Argus will close Us Newmarket facility in fact we purchased premises at Davis Dr outright Inst November Mr Mat- told The Era I feel this Indicates fully our In tentions and confidence for our growth and expansion In Newmarket he said Mr pointed out that all but 10 of the personnel laid off dur ing the summer have returned to He took exception to remarks made by Councillor Bob who said that such firms as Argus and Sky way Luggage employ only a few peo ple They dont pay decent wages and only come hero because they know they can get away with paying poor wages Sold Mr Mat Dee Argus does pay good wages we did not market than it would from Toronto said Mr because to compete with the camera industry who for tho most part operate out of Toronto we must prepay transportation on every piece of equipment we sell into the market Tho pool of skilled technical and other trained personnel is limited in Newmarket and to get people in this category to commute from Toron to to Newmarket we must pay a sub stantial premium ho said Mr pointed out that the main reason for the summer layoffs at Argus was because the camera busi ness was largely a seasonal business with most of the sales taking place around Christmas Also said Mr the cam era equipment business Is in the lux ury gift class and it has experienced over the past 18 months a serious de lino as a result of tight money infla tion and other economic factors pre valent In our economy But concluded Mr Mattice business for fall selling season has started at a brisk pace Yorks fight for provincial tax relief fails NEWMARKET York Countys campaign to bleed new ax relief leg islation from tho provincial govern ment this year has failed At a closed meeting here last week Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy McKcough told county political leaders that York municipalities had no choice but to adopt one of two relief bills recently passed by tho In effect Mr sold tho province had totally rejected the countys plea for special legislation that would restore tax burden to Its pre 1070 ratio that is take the heat off residential taxpayers hit with hefty Increases due to reassessment Tho Minister indicated however that by county will got while York towns and townships Wo tried everything to got relief this year Newmarket Salisbury said In exasperation last Wo pointed out to Minis- tor that Provincial Treasurer Charles McNoughton had promised assistance to any area of province that suf fered a major tax shift this year But Mr McKeough answered that at that time the province didnt such a problem In York County Mr Salisbury chairman of countys Legislation and Bylaws Com mittee had been Instrumental In fight ing the two Queens Park bills which ho said dont provide any relief at nil Under Bill whereby tax in creases cut this year and phased over flvo years municipalities will still be able to take advantage of the pro- Jetted aid that will be available In 1D72 Reeve Salisbury said He said ho would recommend such a course to Newmarket Council Davis Dr robbery nets bandits NEWMARKET Police are searching for two men who escaped with nearly after a holdup at Davis Drive Texaco Station last Friday night Station manager Karla was preparing the days receipts for night deposit when two men entered tho station police reported of the men brandished a knife and de manded the money while the other stood watch at door Thoy relieved Mr Karla of 079 then disappeared behind Caradonna Fruit Market and apparently headed for East Heights police said East Police said ono man was about 30 the other 18 or 10 The Investigation continues