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The En Oil Wed THE ERA DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTER DONALD GEORGE Regional Council Heres the lineup Newmarket Bob Ray East GwiHimbury Gladys Rolling Aurora Dick King Ken George Burrows Bob Pollock WhitStouffville Richmond Hill Bill Don Gord Tony Roman James Jongeneel Harold Vaughan Garnet Williams Albert Rutherford Thats the Regional Government lineup Does it look much like the makeup of this years York County Council Of course it does Will they act the same as Regional Councillors as they did as York County Councillors The Big Smear This was the year of the Whisper the Big Lie for the Newmarket mayor and regional council seat elections This was also the year of the torn down and mutilated election signs None of the five candidates was immune from the Smear the Whisper the Big Lie It was enough to make a person sick Nobody knows where the Smear the Whisper the Lie starts But it always winds up in some voters ear You can always tell because the listener usually steps back after hearing it with a look of disbelief on his or her face The practice of mutilating and tearing down election signs is plain childish It is for these reasons the childish acts at election time the vicious underhanded whispers that more good men do not enter politics It is why many good men sensitive men men with families and jobs will not enter municipal politics They dont want to be the subject of smears and lies and they dont Want their families to be touched by them Dear Editor How does per cent guideline we nope not Scott Young While shuffling through some of our daughters compositions the other day I came across one which I found myself literally unable to put down In fact it stuck to my fingers and I couldnt even shake it off I wonder what they put in strawberry jam these days Anyway while I rested between shakes I began to read It was an engrossing story I am a member of the Dixon family her composition began Immediately I felt mystery envelop me Either she is a member of the Young family or some imposter named Dixon has been running up big bills in my name at the place where they sell to year olds Last week we moved into a haunted house she continued That night we strange noises in the attic When we went up to investagat we didnt see a thing Her rising terror at this point could be detected no not by her spelling madam quit guessing by her writing It went all with We tried to go back to sleep but we couldnt The next day we searched the house but couldnt find any clues Makes one wonder about Dixon her father moving into a haunted Bill Smiley With Thanksgiving in the air perhaps its a good a time as any to give thanks that all our women have not joined the lunatic fringe of the Womens Liberation Movement Im not knocking the Movement The majority of those who belong to it and work for it are mature intelligent women who believe there is discrimination against women in some areas and want to abolish it I agree with them about the discrimination hi some But I want no more to do with the screaming brawaving instantabortion parodies of women who haunt their ranks than I do with the hard core of Maoists who turn every peaceful protest meeting into a riot not always thus A look at history shows us some remarkable women who had tremendous influence without ever waving a Its both a shame and a sickness what the dixons goes on house to begin with but no matter The next night and the one after that we herd the noises Question What do you do for a living Answer I herd noises We decided to try to find out what they were or move out That night father went up the stairs to the attic prepaired to stay the night The familys name MUST be Dixon youd never get ME up those stairs in a million years We herd the noise only once that night The next morning we ran up to the attic to see father We asked him if he bad found out what it was He said he had Youre going to love this We asked him what it was did he see it did he get it He told us to go and look in a box and we would see what it was Inside was the cutest kitten we ever saw We asked if we could keep it Father said he didnt know that we would hafta phone the police That creep Dixon is beginning to come clear to me now I had been wondering what kind of a nitwit would rent a haunted house to start with and the answer is right there Admitting to his little girl that there was a kitten around I do not know why he stayed all night in the attic Of course I have not met Mrs Dixon But it seems to me that once he found the kitten he had two sane courses open to him a go back downstairs and groan to his wife Its a lousy kitten or b sleep there all night sneak the kitten out and give it away and then claim that he had sure put the run on that ghost which of course never would be heard herd from Anyway he didnt do any of those things You can easily tell that a little girl wrote this thing she depicts this miserable Dixon as the kind of a father SHE would like to have Where were we Oh yes We were going to hafta phone the poliece Well we got them on to the chief in fact The little girl at the other end told all about the haunted house I guess because the chief was on the phone quite a while Then he hung up rolled his eyes heaven ward and went back to his cribbage game while at the other end of the line a little girl with the brightest possible eyes hung up too and wrote the f nut line on her story We were very happy when the chief said we could keep the kitten We were also glad because our haunted house was no more The End And so we bid a fond farewell to that Dixon kid whoever she is The hourly paid workers at Shoe Company in Aurora are ask ing only 36 cents an hour Increase or per cent this based on the wage of an average worker earning an hour The piece workers average ahout to an hour and are asking IS per cent at per hour thats a 30 cent Increase There are people out on strike in our community Aurora New market and even farther afield who are expected to support a family on these meagre wages Some are women who are the sole support of the family If you feel as I do that these wages are too low phone the manager and tell him what you Support the workers by boycotting the shoes made by Kinney of which Sisman Is a branch until the strike Is settled satis factorily Slsman shoes go under various trade names Squires Cools Thorobllts Scampers and Safety The three ear grape boycott In Toronto and area helped the grape pickers In California fin ally get a satisfactory wage and better conditions of work Now lets support our friends and neighbors who are asking only for a decent living wage ANN GRIFFITHS 3 Dear Editor Some service club missed the boat when they didnt undertake as a walked by the with some outoftown frtj ends who remarked what a pretty place the lake and Its park was Then my fri ends looked down from the bridge and saw all the ken blocks rocks bottles and bits of wood And why couldnt someone paint the face of the dam white and some colored lights It be a miniature Falls Surely the Conserve Authority could allocate some money to beautify the area at night MRS G Crier Hearty therapy keep the bras on girls to Greek wicked old dowager who repaid him in spades every time he stayed from the straight and and Aphrodite did all right for themselves Among mortals Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships And she didnt do it by flaunting her girdle on the end of a pole She did it with her face diddle her brother out of a kingdom get herself an illegitimate son by the great dictator Julius Caesar boo and bring the magnificent Mark Antony conqueror of hundreds of women boo to his a quivering wreck She did wind up clutching her asp to her breast which made for a rather sticky end but she had a lot of fun I wonder if she wore a brassiere Isabella of Spain overrode the quibbling of her husband and gave that lunatic who thought the world was round Columbus some rotten has Ice I plunge tell how I won the joust In the first place cream came to ne odds overwhelm- the top at Fairy Lake last Saturday arrived at the jousting place down to defeat before the bugler He had the moral onslaught of my Jousting support of a former New- pole market mayor and reeve Basher Insists that His PRO rolled out a red he warn the Joust because carpet for htm his boat and driver remain- Another thing In his above water while mine favor was he and his was submerged manager outweighed and His public relations advisor Mr Joseph director FourEyes Thomp- by some 20 says be Is going to lodge pounds I painted my boat protest I say protest to finish so that there be no glare to The hundreds of His boat was a shiny alum- sn inc J Into the water pointed their the first time when not even near him Be Jut in an effort second lime during It strategy My plan was to Joust Basher a couple of limes to get him off I would attack him from the left the wind at my back I would after Jousting him once or twice give him the double When I saw this would baffle him I would then filch my right hip and at the same time Mr Vanden Bergh would give a slight tug on the left oar As Bashers pole struck rae it would glance off and crash Into the bottom of my boat Basher would then fall Into the water with a slight assist from me And thats exactly Mr Vanden went in when the boat I would be remiss if I did not thank sir Basil for loaning me Lady Pam elas sketches I used joust feint A and am keeping B to M for future Jousts The Karl of joust ing pole Is In a customs warehouse somewhere In Alberta afraid therell he an international Incident if that Isnt returned to Sir Basil smartly Thanks too to Mur ray for acting as starter and referee He was very impressive in Big rubber dinghy A Hart fa ample photo- cloudy day nil now tell mud Basher The only reason I went Into the water was because I was attempting to help the sodden Basher Ither slip- with Most of all thanks my family for stlchlng during ray darkest But it really would not have been so much fun Hasher and Ill take him on again any place out of any time provided Its I him In July biscuits ind me it some rotten jail birds and three leaky ships to find the New World Oh yes they have always been tight with a buck Moving quickly look at the two English queens who had entire eras named after them Elizabeth I and Victoria Liz had most of the male royalty of Europe desperate to marry her and dallied with the lives and loves of such robust chaps as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh The handsome virile Earl of Essex was in love with her when he was about 20 she in her fifties What woman could want more And with womanly Victoria was a stick but nations trembled when she spoke and she had so much influence and morals that we are just With another leap lets move up to another Liz Taylor the royalty of this century She is married for the fifth time to a brilliant sexy man She has made millions She has been envied and admired by millions of women Certainly this is a superficial view of women But it does prove that if youve got what it takes you can get where its at To confirm my suspicious I mrule a rough and survey of female opinion My senior girl students nil for Womens Liberation but deplore the tactics of the farout wing They do point out the soft spots particularly in industry and business where women meet a stone wall at a certain stage True and something should be done about it But in the professions medicine the law teaching women get the same fees as men Why arent there more women engineers and dentists One would think their practical common sense in the one case their gentle touch in the other would be invaluable Maybe they have a thing about peering into canyons My wife thinks things are OK they are Like most women she controls most of the money can ruin her kids by spoiling them has a walling wall mo when things arent going right Well tho Womens Lib likes to set up straw men knock them down Ive set one up for them The day on which Mae West tears off her brassiere mid starts waving it the brassiere that la Ill apply for an associate membership In To escape momentarily from main street malls local elections high taxes and young people with problems Id like to dwell for awhile on something I read some time ago Dr P Watson head of the division of ornamental horticul ture at Michigan State University gave this advice to members of the Garden Club of Toronto a while back If you want to prevent your husband from having a heart attack send htm out to putter in the garden I envy such leaders of thought for the rigid fealty they can bestir in the hearts of other mens wives I can never do it In odd years my wife has not donated a minutes anxiety to my heart nor to the possibility of it ever being attacked Apatheti cally she has always looked upon a as one of those incarnate things that will- last man all his life But Dr Watson apparently has hammered his point home Her apathy has become her corrigendum something she is determined to Now the doctors concern for the condition of my heart can be said to have a certain nobility about it but may I remind him that Im an apartment dweller In short I didnt have a plot to putter In Admittedly I havent had a heart attack through puttering in the living room hallway and bed room but to Ive cracked my head 38 times on open cupboard doors once I fractured my thumb trying to nail a creeping vine to the ceiling is one important thing Ive found out puttering if its to be done at nil should be done out- ofdoors Unfortunntely however Dr Watson failed to stress this point to his heartpreserving horti den by way of the kitchen then I taking turn to come out the hall again Only one bed- far but Sidestepping the lntest batch in the living room parting the thick mass of unruly tendrils in order in a glimpse of whats on television one cant help but feel that if something isnt soon done about this puttering therapy the lnnt3 are simply going to allowed to take over For the depletion of a my furniture appliances and is becoming markedly notice- able Already Ive been forced tol dispose of four kitchen chairs volumes of the Encyclopedia my antique barrelorgan a 30inch stuffed loon two card tables and a secondhand Babylonian spin ning wheel to way for reinforcements of cactus Hither plants and And unless I find someone to help me lift down the trailing plant in a hurry Im afraid the fridge will have to go too I will concede though this Inside puttering can times have its tenderly rewarding moments even if thoy are infrequent Fori instance the African violets a soothing pleasure to the eye since I moved them from the front door to spot in front of the picture window Im beginning to develop a feeling of great attachment for pot plants really hut my doctor warned me the other day that Id have to watch it The old ticker he says la showing definite signs of strain He suggested a relaxing hobby But I dont know The puttering doesnt bother me much really hut drag ging those bags of granulat ed pent up and down the basement does leave me sort of bushed at times