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Full I week of fun police said They said for a time Yonge St was closed by blowing snow During Tuesdays storm OPP from Oak Ridges detachment investigated motor accidents resulting in 13 injuries and in damage Blowing snow was also blamed for the deaths Saturday of milk truck drh Aubrey Saw and his son Richard 11 at a level crossing near King City Their truck was hit by a CNR freight train Heres the schedule Clip it out and save it SATURDAY Feb to pm the annual Newmarket novice hockey tournament Opening ceremonies will take place at pm when town Mayor Bob Forhan a former Olympic hockey star will participate in a ceremonial faceoff Newmarket Legion hockey dance at the Legion Hall THE ERA Since PAGES Newmarket VOL NO 15 CENTS ONTARIO WEDNESDAY CENTS Everybody wants police HQ council stalls Newmarket bid NEWMARKET York Regions 200man police department has a headquarters Its a single room in the regional building on Bayview Ave It contains two desks two telephones and a typewriter There is a York Regional Police insignia stapled to the bulletin board the only indication of the rooms official use This is where the regions new police chief Bruce Crawford and his deputy chief Dan have set up shop until the region gets a permanent headquarters But the chiefs hands are tied Newmarket Councillor Ray told regional council last week He cant get anything done until we get a building Councillor sits on the regional police commission which hopes to locate the headquarters in Office Specialtys Prospect St plant That proposal stalled last week when committee claimed it had not received a formal purchase offer from Office Specialty That technicality may have masked the real issue location of the police hendquarti football and several southern York representatives are exerting heavy pressure to bring Hill or the Oak Ridges area The regions choices arc would cost fold purchase an existing an Richmond The strange case of the missing document By JOHN NEWMARKET The first showdown between York Re gional Police Commission and the regional council ended in B defeat for the police commission last week and all because of a missing piece of paper After a long and bitter fight over the appropriate location of Yorks new police headquarters council stalled a police purchase offer mysteriously emerged during the debate at 505 pm three hours after the meeting began and too late for councils engineering committee to recommend any action on it Together with the bitterness of several councillors who vehemently oppose locating the headquarters in Newmarket the whole affair look on a nearcomic aura Office Specially build- matter He claimed Edward Oakes later con- I that the committee can make recommendations only on I the architectural stability and i the proposed price of any build ing chosen by the police commis sion not on the location But added the solicitor the body that has to raise the money is entitled to ask certain questions That body of course is he regional council Councillor Inst week outlined to council the background of the police com- would cost and million to erect a new building as recommended by southern York councillors Im getting accused of pushing for a Newmarket site SEE EDITORIAL PAGE produced in time there if the document had I strong indications that council might have blocked deal market Mayor Hob Forhan summed up the A frustrated of the debate when he said angrily Why not quit playing games want the headquarters In your own council or any councillor here has any right to decide I think it should come from the police commission It did come from the commission but a number of strong- voiced councillors obviously didnt agree The commission had forwarded a resolution to councils engineering committee asking that the region buy Office Specialtys plant for The engineering committee was to make a pro or con recommendation to the council last Thursday afternoon But when the committee sat down last Thursday morning to decide its recommendation it couldnt find the offer of purchase Regional Solicitor Edward said he searched for it The police commissions secrelary didnt have it The regional clerk didnt have It Neither did the chief administrator nor the regional engineer nor the police chief So the committee recommended to council that no action ho purchase offer came from Office angry at the action He claimed the engineering committee and Solicitor had seen his companys offer to sell the building He claimed the technicality was merely a Hailing tactic to block the location draft offer the offer he and lacked committee could take chase offer There Is even some question as to the legality of the pur chase offer Regional Chairman Garfield Wright waved aloft at last Thursday Police Commission Secretary Brian Ward told The Era the offer Is signed by company executives but lacks the corporate seal Its also a carbon copy he added Lack of the corporate seal is not an Insuperable difficulty and might be easily rectified said Solicitor At any rate the whole confused matter will go before the of lnl the He to Office Specialty situ and warned that construction of headquarters building the But Solicitor Oakes disagreed Yes he had of purchase In fact had made suggestions as to lis formbut no signatures of Offfce Specialty corporate seal So he said the 1 action without first having a legal pur- Office Specialty has agreed to sell its Prospect Si plant and acres of land for a base selling price of 217000 plus 10000 for a new healing would cost another 50000 he predicted But ho argued police coin- mission research shows that Pay King mayor KING TOWNSHIP Sal- for the mayor and coun cillors in King Township have give Mayor Ken for the year lie gets as a York Regional aid later the commis sion unanimously agreed on the Office Specially after re ceiving feasibility studies on See page 10 Nudist camp owner fined in shooting last week was fined given two years probation for dangerous use of a firearm In the shotgun shooting of two St Andrews College students last fall Edward Stanley entered a guilty plea to the charge Two charges of assault causing bodi ly barm were withdrawn by the Testimony showed shot at four youths last Oct 25 after he discovered them near pool at the Glen Echo Nudist Camp on Conces sion in King Township When came upon the youths they fled in several directions He fired one shot striking two of them ac cording to police One youth incurred shotgun pellet wounds in the shoulders and hack and a Sec NUDIST CAMP page Winter a clobbered us again NEWMARKET Old Man Winter came back to York Reg ion lo play an encore dumping about six inches of snow on Sat urday after leaving the rest of the province nearly paralyzed A Metro man who went out on Lake on his snowmo bile during the height of the storm on Tuesday to look for stranded fishermen is miss ing His machine was found off the lip of Island on Saturday and an air and snow mobile search has failed to lo- the height of the storm on Tuesday night the floor of the Whitchurch divis ion of York Region Police at Vandorf was covered with sleep ing stranded motorists There were hundreds of rearend collisions as visibility dropped to nil A typical acci dent saw Toronto Telegram re porter Tony Drews car crash into the back of another one on the Don Mills Road as he was on bis way to work Tuesday night As he was walking around his wrecked vehicle another car came out of the storm and slammed into it trucks The Era from the oiinliim plant didnt ar rive in Newmarket until am Wednesday after being stranded in Manic for four hours He normally arrives In Newmarket at midnight pine froze at the New market Plaza causing water damage to a number of stores The most severely dam- art Rear furniture q soaked as six inches of wa- covered the floor Wool- Michael Livingsta flood A massive snowmobile search in the Mount Albert area located an elderly man who was stranded in the bush during the pm Newmarket Optimist Club round and square dance fl at the Optimist Hall SUNDAY Feb pm Newmarket Jr will meet Toronto Maple fl Leaf Bombers at Newmarket arena in the second game of the league playoffs A TUESDAY Feb 9 pm Main St will be blocked off from Park Ave to Water St and work will start on a Main St mall WEDNESDAY Feb m Main St pedestrian mall will be open for business Official opening ceremonies will be at pm and fl will include town council other civic dignitaries and the Legion Pipe Band to pm a family costume skating party at Newmarket arena The Newmarket Citizens Band will fl supply the music and skaters in costume will be admitted Free Noncostumed adults must pay cents children cents THURSDAY Feb pm Miss Snow Queen will be chosen at the town hall pm a high school variety night on ice at Newmarket arena Students and teachers from both Newmarket High and Huron Heights will he participating Sometime Wednesday or Thursday- the Main St block between St and Timothy St will be flooded J and frozen weather permitting will be constructed along the block by Fire fl Chief Cliff Gunn a FRIDAY Feb 12 830 pm Newmarket Police Winter Carnival Ball at the fl Legion Hall Tickets at S5 per couple are available fl from any member of the Newmarket detachment York Police or at the door 8 pm will hold a dance at the town hall SATURDAY Feb am a pancake breakfast will be held on Main St 12 noon to pm a licensed refreshment room run by the winter carnival committee will be open above the Granada restaurant 1 pm Newmarket Legion have challenged the Downtown Merchants to a tugofwar to be held on the mall The Legionnaires also invited teams from the Aurora fl Richmond Hill and Legions to take on fl the v pm a It will be open t Applications are fl 2 pm a hot dog the found by the search Two Mount Albert men Roicr and Dennis suffered frostbite when they applicants to sign up will be accepted See Jack for applications 230 pm donut eating contest on the mall First accepted Sign up at Fine Cake Shop 230 pm another this time Newmarket Rotary will face Aurora Rotary pm a logsawing contest on the mall Sign up with Buckler at Central Office Supply 2 pm to S pm a snowmobile clinic at Wesley Brooks Conservation area The clinic conducted by representatives of a snowmobile firm will stress safety and handling 8 pm a Newmarket Legion hockey team will play Clowns the pipe band and a team of Newmarket referees will be on hand pm Valentines Dance at the Legion Hall pm If ice remains on the Main St mall there will he mocassin dance All day helicopter rides will be available for per person at Brooks Conservation Area All day chili con will be available from booths on the mall operated by the Society for the Preservation fl of Barbershop Quartettes and by the children from 1 Notre Dame separate school SUNDAY Feb II pm free snowmobile rides horse drawn sleigh rides and fl free baked beans at Wesley Brooks Conservation randed In their fish huts on Lake They ran out of fuel and had to burn their huts benches before being picked by a rescue team And just as rcsideats got their driveways shovelled out from Tuesdays days blow the All this courtesy Newmarket 2 pm Newmarket town council will meet Aurora town council in game on Fairy Lake ice pm the snowmobile joust on Fairy Eg Lake 3 pm the winners of the snow sculpture contest will be I and Wcdncs- A afternoon hot dogs hot chocolate and coffee will be Friday night By the time it was over on Sat unlay there was another six inches of the white stuff and hundreds more aching backs See PHOTO page available at the lnke site from the Hoy Scouts All afternoon helicopter rides will be available Any nonprofit organization wishing to participate in fl the carnival can still be worked into the schedule says town I recreation director Dan Shannon a committee member NO PLANS TO LET METRO EXPAND ROBARTS tion NEWMARKET Premier John Itobarls says his govern ment has no plans to allow Metropolitan Toronto to muscle across York Regions southern boundary But Provincial Treasurer Charles McNaughton Isnt quite I tetters from both senior officials last week In response to the regions objection to pos sible Metro annexation of Yorks rich southern lands assume both letters are from the same government cracked Richmond Hill Council lor Don The Robarts government has no plans to change the boundaries of Metropolitan To ronto the premiers letter is being contemplated and if It helpful A second letter from Mr thanked the re gion for its detailed brief ob jecting to Metro land grab and said such reports will en able us to devise a policy that will promote orderly and ration al development throughout the TorontoCentred Region Councillor Plaxton was sceptical He said ho felt the government had made a firm announcement that Metro would eventually take In all lands south of proposed High way Certainly it would be a relief If I can accept the pre miers letter at face value he said Aurora Mayor Dick suggested the letters he kept In a good safe spot In case the time comes to fight PREMIER JOHN ROBARTS