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Bra Oat- Wed December It THE ERA Serving Verb County Since 1852 DAVID R HASKELL TERRY CARTES Establish priority ice to the needs of York County delaying the new addition to Bureaucratic residents seems to be needless York County Hospital Apparently with a meagre hospital beds per thou sand of population not even topechelon health department officials deny there is a critical shortage of hospital facilities in northern York County Rut there is a long step between admitting the need and cutting provincial red tape to do something about it quickly The Ontario Hospital Services Commission the pro vincial body whose approval is needed for even stage of the new project MUST start giving York County top priority Surely the need for new beds here is far more import ant than the need for a new doctors garage or visitors park ing lot in some other community- Yet items such as these are apparently taking preced ence at the OHSC office simply because the applications arriv ed earlier Where a need is so great and where cost3 are mount ing at the rate of a month not even this festive sea son should be allowed to stand in the way of this project Dont tear up contract The 1971 Newmarket town council has been asked to tear up a twoyearold contract with its garbage collector which guarantees present town residents their existing rates for the to make this Second ltst Township con tract with the firm for collection in East Gwillimbury Heights and other parts of the township which will be annexed to New market Jan 1 expires on Dec The firm naturally enough would like to have the whole town under a single new contract at the higher rate it wiU ask if it must negotiate the East portion separately However this should not happen That contract with its three years left to run was negotiated and signed on behalf of the people of mil tho residents within the old boundaries are entitled to its rates The firm has indicated that per house per month in East Gwillimbury Heights will increase to per month if the new contract covers the whole town Instead the new town council when it takes office in January should negotiate a separate contract to cover the new areas of town and date it to expire the same day the existing contract for the old town expires Then on Dec the town can negotiate a collection contract to cover its whole area Preliminary negotiations have not indicated the pr per house cost of collecting garbage but you can be si nothing goes down these days REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE AFRAID TO CO OUT CAUSE THE KIDS MIGHT FIND OUR BOOZE SUPPLY Readers pay far he your report what look place on Road near Street day night Decern figures over doctors are employed jet not one could be round give aid by the roadside J EARL Newmarket unable to get the girl during her or- Your detailed article page 5 of the same issue on the subject of York County Hospital claims that according to the Com I dont think that it would be presumptuous on my part to expect that the Ontario Medical Association along with the York County Scott Youngm report to us public A Former member of i i Town Council iwaterby sinks on first job Board etc I keep on trying to impress upon you how much use I am around the house The big trouble is every time I think I am on the brink of some really convincing evidence the case blow up in my face But never more so a truly superior blowupthan this time When our house was built nearly years ago all the radiators ere into walls behind slotted metal panels that let the heat out This is great and saves a lot of dusting except that my wife is a nut on letting the air out of radiators- At a time when another woman might sit down and relax with a fashion magazine my wife finds it very restful t take the little key that fits the take an empty coffee can and her rounds Dont break it si Each radiator has a little valve When she of that i the key and holds the coffee can under escaped I guess she told me about this thing times before the day when I finally decided the li to do something about it What Ill do said manfully the panel and take it off Then Ill get the and pull it out a little While she ran to the basement I ran to closet and grabbed an armful of clean and ran back and flung them into the of the flood The water was still running covered the entire floor about half an inch deep it it will stick ttuouKh before it slowly subsided because she had turned G Eagle Hills letter of last week In The Readers Era hurray Tor him Everyone should think like he does then Board would hasten here wouldnt be so much investigate and cause- debt agree salaries for this regional government are Tar too high What is wrong with the buildings and swimming pools we have for a few more years How about catling some angles GLA1STER GRAVES the slot in the panel like the otht Of course taking this panel off didnt do the paint job on Ihe wall ood Hut it it off She di lined the Theie is pipe about a foot long sticking straight up It was into what I believe is called an elbow I sped it firmly and began to pull It wouldnt off the Having just read your article on York County Hospital I am again re minded of how fortunate we are to have such care avail able to us around the clock However in I have or our years in 1 know that we will always of Newmarket give us many hours of lis tening pleasure and I have reclined comfortably almost every evening In the laiy- special thanks to Clare Tom and Rene who I understand were re sponsible for organizing the night and thanks also to Just Jenny May I take this op portunity also express thanks to our very close friends and neighbors who goodbye parties for r the bean- i her run downsta little spout theres a rush of air and then she lets a few ounces of water out In this way she state eliminate all the air locks which prevent the hot water from So far so good but in one bedroom the pipe that has the valve on the end somehow long lapped back in behind the protective warned suddenly I grunted just as I broke the pipe off and a jet of boiling hot water sk iid with all the pressure of the entire hot water heating system behind it Grab it I shouted I dont know what she was supposed to grab I tried to shove the pipe back on The ilei ived ill over me i ne irbj bed the rug on the floor She ran downstairs to shut something have known like en I said Well thats another thing Im not I guess a plumber So we had no water in the house It was washday too 1 called a plumber and he sent out his heating man- About the best I can say for myself in the situation was that 1 did not shillyshally when the healing man came didnt say it had been an accident or anything I was trying to bend it I said Pretty stupid of me He could have said Oh I didnt know it was a natural enough mistake That would have got me off the hook gently But he didnt He just looked at mc I would like to Hut Hills take an opportunity to ex- Our bct press my thanks to the fur a v Me many fellows who support- and the best in the the parting stag that Year was held for me on DREW 10K day November I tried lly Dr to express my Crier i BILL GAMBLE More on smoking Bill Smiley sugar and spice Canadas old -age- pensioners may not have a swinging Christmas but they can warm them selves with the thought of what a of a time theyre going to have in when there will occur Instant prosperity the basic old age pension will be raised from a month to ft smashing all those male oldage pen- worse Yon know how women squander money Theyre just as apt as not to go out and blow the whole cents on a plastic doily or a couple of rolls of pink toilet paper therell be no holding them Thais only one of the faults in the white paper introduced by a benevolent government Further excesses ire in sight Do you icilie when they get their first new cheque at Ihe government Is going to retain the costofliving the end of Janu iry to the pub and blow the whole cents on an orgy Two draught beers and a tip for the waiter This will produce a moral degradation never equalled since the days of Dickens when gin was o cheap you could get high for a penny stoned for sax dead drunk ft i shilling Cant you see all those oldtimers lying wbanks every time their pension with that magnificent exscalator clause built in The whole country is going to be lolling in luxury theres no question about it Did you know that a single pensioner can get up to 55 a month in supplement or up to a month when his basic old age pension is included The key word there is can Hut if he or she decides to make a few extra bucks shovell ing v ilks taking in washing some eagle eyed will be on She spot and the 1 didnt really want to bring up the subject of NO SMOKING on buses again but heavy response to my article most of it from nonsmokers revealed a rath er disturbing significance which I think is worthy of mention Going to be something in common and that was a very strong contempt that these people held for smoker Now I certainty wouldnt of all mm group nevertheless have dilator formula up to a ceiling of per cent a for pensioners receiving the supplement but supplement will be cut dollar for dollar late it for those who get only the oldage benefit This means that down to a cent these people will get their per cent filing of a new golden In other words you arc pegged at Thats a tot of money Too much to be if the annual cost- floating around in the hands of luxury loving cheque Andhatabout I don know bow many of you Era readers watch Channel 3 In and if yon have noticed a commercial they are run ning lately The commercial feasor Is San the Record Man and naturally Ram ii trying fa peddle records The record he trying to peddle is entitled Jesus Christ Super War Accompanying edible The Cm in social If you were and lived to be your Theyll be standard of living might drop by only per cent they can buy this record at them I one of Sams stores in Bar- have lie or at his other two do ha tores In Toronto llglon I think that this commercial Is In extreme ly bad taste and borders on the sacrilegious I must confess Ive never heard the record and for all I know It might be a very tasteful might deliver a good Christian message Bat doubt it people who might llglon be it Buddhist Catholic Jewish Proles or any other religion To me a perse would treat It with I dont have loo much respect for the TV healers who cure people of lameness deafness and other afflic tions before my very eyes religion Is a personal thing his od is his personal tlod on the silver ad both are to be treated this Is a fake and a reverence tie hoax 1 believe and of whether or prayer and faith can cure not your beliefs coincide but 1 dont the other fellows Neve that these miracles I have as much can be worked on command respect for an African to fit Into a halfboar time right to worship slot on a television network hank picture of this record Is an m screaming the k UiMteli title record title at top of And before any lis Mating one accuses me of being his God for peno Worship fall Christ on the cross I happen to think African savage Is wrong if In background and hut I respect his right to the voice people lag so and so let me assure worship his rock and I also deplore rack Sam the Mans dls- TV commercial with Its Irreverence and r at this care old timers Why dont tute the workhouse with cabbage the standard fare and meat boiled horse hocks every third Saturday And what about those widows wives of the disabled and the disabled themselves The white paper suggests that they will suffer an improvement in benefits Starting in There goes another round of tremendous inflation In Youd almost think I had some misgiv ings about the white paper I dont Its almost as much fun as leading Alice in Wonderful You d almost think there were an election coming up as one was when Mr King introduced the baby bonus Surely the government isnt trying to distract us from the fact that unemployment is the peak of the great depression Say it isnt so Pierre And speaking of the baby bonus I wish I were young again Babies used to be worth 8 a month Now theyre worth Taxable But its also worth almost two cases of beer a month per child- This Is going to mean a great deal to the families who always put the baby bonus aside as beer money Six kids twelve However It is the time of year to wish joy and I do so Including all those poor devils who mtke a year and take home 7300 They cant buy house They cant send their kids to college because the kids cant get loan because their parents are making so much money No points for working your guts out for Full points for filling your guts at someone elses table for years the oddest feeling thnt I may have discovered a cult within a cult The nonsmokers who replied to my column were positively vehe ment in their denunciation of smok ers They were inexorable And in some cases they were insulting Some made no secret of the fact that they considered smokers to be low class beings unclean ugly un healthy given to obscenities if re proached for their vice and total ly inconsiderate humans One read er accused me of polluting HIS air while another bemoaned the fact that I left my garbage around for others to clean up Even another pointed out that one merely had Weighing alt this I couldnt help wondering just how much sym pathy oi empathy unfortunate drug addicts or alcoholics might expect from such exemplars And while all of hem made no bones about the fact that if giv en their way they would itelv do away with because of the pollution factor yet even at the height of their indignation not one of them indicated that automo biles snowmobiles or mot or deserved the same treatment Its funny But then perhaps fear is the real culprit It refuses to allow people to allow themselves to suffer Masochism is as builtin a part of human personality is tho Instinct of selfpreservatloi and what is in will nut oooooOooooo I suppose youve all noticed the big change in the advertising pages of this paper What used to be called the Help Male anil Help Wauled Female col umns have suddenly undergone facelifts They are now tagged Jobs Primarily of Interest to Men and Jobs Primarily of Interest to women darn it Ive gone and spelled women with a small Now Ill catch Anyway all this has some thing to do with the Womens Equal Opportunity Act Apparently it is now illegal to advertise jobs i single without first quali fying it as being of interest to that But the one raised my eye brows an inch or so was the list of jobs under the heading Jobs Pri marily of Interest to Men or Wo men Needless to say the first job on that list was for a fully bricklayer This was follow ed by requests for fully experienc ed caviienters- Well its possible I suppose that some women might lie inter ested in these particular jobs but isnt that Fully Experienced bit sort of violating something After all where is one to find a fully ex perienced female bricklayer A dite- perhaps but fully experienc ed never And frighteningly Illegal part of the whole thing is thnt the list is put out by Canada Man power Centre I wonder how long it will be before that is changed to Canada Centre In view of the above Item I have decided to comment from time to time in this column on jobs that I truly believe women never been much good at For example for all their miracles of making things especially their faces and figures look different from women have been so inept at professional conjuring that the pear mice of a female illusionist on the stage has so far been Yet they can saw an in half and send an in spiral soaring higher than an 1 rope them back