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Era Out Wed THE ERA Serving York County Since 1852 Phone Newmarket 8952331 Charles St DAVID HASKELL DONALD CARTER JOHN News Police HQ became a political football As advertised the location of the Region of York police headquarters has become a real fully inflated political football The half- filled football became round and firm and fully packed after the political windbags were through with the subject after last weeks Regional Council meeting The bouncing football started when the Regions Police Commission recommended the Office Specialty building on Prospect St in Newmarket The commission made its recommendation following exhaustive study and discussion This recommendation went to the Re gions engineering committee where it stall- had an offer to sell before it Suddenly as if by magic an offer to sell appeared It appeared in the hand of Chairman Garfield Wright who is neither a member of the engineering committee or the police It appeared after council had been meet ing more than three hours and after politi- after politician popped to his feet espous- ing that by implication his municipality would be the best location for the police headquarters To cap the whole hilarious afternoon off it was discovered that offer to sell did not have the vendors corporate seal affixed to it and it was a carbon copy Maybe the football will stop bouncing at the Feb 11 meeting of the Wright and LaughIn Give parents facts and figures now W DOING YOU COULD PART WW SOME OLD COPIES OF THE Readers ERA along All served for the comments swings of The Eras read el free to send your York Regions secondary school teach ers last week passed a resolution asking the provincial health department to provide birth control information and clinics in high scho ols for students from at least grade nine up The teachers who should know said they feel such a high school birth control program is necessary because the pregnancy rate of secondary school students is climbing veneral disease has become epidemic in the schools and because of the high incidence of drug use in the schools The public has been wellaware for a long time that these things were a problem among young people in todays society but when teachers become concerned about them at the grade level or lower 11- and 13yearolds the situation has become cri tical and the public should be made as fully aware of its extent as possible The teachers stressed they are not just ice they did feel strongly enough about it to take this initiative parents of children attending York schools are rightly concerned We feel York Regional school must come forward now with facts and figures Parents have a right to know the extent of these problems in their childrens schools NEWSROOM NOTES Bashers back with that old gang of his Theres very little to report about the of the ice joust on Fairy Lake which will be held a week from this Sunday I thought I had some earthshattering news as I received a communication over the weekend from Oomlaut However it turned out to be of a personal message of which Ill relate later I hear by the grapevine that Basher Groves has his October gang lined up again for the February joust Youll recall that Vineham propelled Bashers boat on the water Sealbeam will be driving Bash ers snowmobile FourEyes Thompson will again be his manager and public relations man and Basher will again ride to the fray on the back of Clare Salisburys Cadillac convertible I hear The trumpeter is suppos ed to be back for an encore I also hear Basher is trying to get an old bathtub to joust from This will place him at a strict disadvantage because for him a bathtub is not his usual habitat I hope to have my driver Mr Joseph SCOTT YOUNG SAYS Haggis going gourmet I am afraid that this news comes too late to cause standing ovations at the annual meetings of Robert Burns societies because Robbie Burns day was more than a week ago But a traveller from Scotland has brought me news of the haggis that should send shivers of delight through Caledonian associations from sea to sea It might even mean that we Scots are about to improve our relations sensationally with the many North Americans of other racial backgrounds who never seem to be able to get past even the IDEA of haggis Until now they will eat such horrors as banana cream pie and the national Canadian dish greasy barley soup which is what the oil pipeline from Alberta carries on week ends But they balk at chopping up the inner organs of a sheep mixing them with oatmeal a leek or two and other seasoning and boiling the whole gorgeous mess In a sheeps stomach Their objections simply fond of It myself that have eaten not only the homecooked but the restaur antcooked varieties Every time I am In Glasgow I hunt up a railway station buffet that serves haggis and mashed potatoes This is the stamp of a true haggislover My friends tell me that anybody who will eat railway buffet haggis will eat anything All I will admit is that it does not rank with the great haggis of the world but It Is cheap and It Is haggis that Is enough Anyway this traveler from Scotland assures me that haggis may be about to make it as a gourmet food sweeping away these barriers of Ignorance and prejudice Festival the booming tourist trade somehow was passing haggis by Tweeds whiskies pipe tobaccos oak cakes kilts sporrans ceremonial sashes clan insignia and other Scottish items were being carried off by the carload Rut the haggis trade was languishing What we lack is a gimmick said one butcher aye said the other Whereupon they put a mound of beauti ful plump haggises In their window with a small sign which stated Freshshot haggis Soon visitors begin stopping in They would put down their cameras and ask through their Interpreters Were haggises birds or animals Was the haggis season Were they fierce or tame Did you boll them or roast them Should they be skinned before cooking or after Hie butchers replied with only the The haggis in a feathertess bird found on the moors of Argyllshire The a menace to farmers because it eat to recent legislation allowed farm- era to boot haggle out of season and to purchase haggis insurance which was somewhat like hail insurance or in Saskat chewan duck insurance This year the pre valence of haggis had reached almost epid emic proportions But fortunately they were easily shot mainly because they flew backwards to protect their eyes from the harsh winds of the moor Therefore they never saw hunters Until it was too late In cooking they wore best steamed for about two hours and then browned In the oven They then could be sliced like bread because the bones disintegrated during the cooking process Hundreds were sold Since then en quiries have been pouring in to Scottish ag ricultural authorities One asked If the hag gis would breed In captivity If ho how did one go establishing a flock Another asked if it were possible that the haggis once existed in North America under the name of schmoos And a third en quiry was Had such a thing as a haggis pizza ever been tried In Scotland I will keep you abreast if you think you can stand the suspense to have gone inlo hibernation for the winter Im sure hell bob to the surface as he wants to keep the winning combination together As to what to joust from Im still not sure Im waiting to see the draw ings and writings and I thought I would get some from weekend message But alas anil alack it was not so and Ill have to leave for You see has a very clever way of using the Aurora northern lights Basher to transmit messages Cfldrlc uses a large slab of ice as a mir ror and reflects the northern lights off the clouds to a civilised community where there is a short wave He uses a form of Morse code but unfortunately very few radio operators understand his native tongue As a result there have been a number of incidents one which caused a series of diplomatic notes between the Canadian and Russian Stale Departments Buffalo ion to your editorial of Jan entitled Slaugh ter In Northern Can- that need one bison population numbers the First of all we are discussing two subspe cies of buffalo the plains buffalo that was largely exterminated by man through range over grazing by cattle and ershooting I lie wood buffalo to which you arc referring abundance on this con tinent according to his- in 1772 and was Hearing extinction by In 1093 the Canadian Parliament enacted testation providing com plete legal protect I on for I ho wood buffalo es timated to number not more than This illation has been creased by careful a lack of under standing of animal popu lations in relationship to are many actors con trolling the increase this herd such as di sease and limited range Although the parks 17300 square miles ap pears to be a stupen dous figure the area by the wood buffalos need for semiopen pra irie This land will sup port only a certain num ber of animals When the and aesthetic and histo rical values for the peo ple of Canada Editorial based on halftruths few facts starvat 1 Basically there are Ihree reasons for wish ing to manage any wild life resource may be slated as manage ment for its aesthe tic and historical val- for its value as a source of human food for its value as a re creational resource To these must be added a fourth aim of management which is specific In its applica tion to Vood Buffalo Park herd- elimination or control of disease remained stable sin his directions mixed Ho began flashing his ice slab and the reflected light off tin clouds into The Ittisshins sent up spoiler planes and traced the mysterious light lo the igloo It took several diplomatic notes to explain that was not a Canadian secret weapon But this weekend Cedric was bang on His flashings were picked up by Haggis Mac- Bagpipe the factor of the Hudsons Hay Post at Ruperts House Mr under stands tongue and immediately transmitted his message by short wave to Junction From there the took it to my house between the first and second period of the Saturday night hockey game obvious from the following message he did called slaughter of diseasetree herd in balance with lb range so that it will provide readily avail able food for native airport Dear Editor Who wants an air port at the top of High way even if they do build the highway That would put it somewhere on the shores of Lake Sitncoe We moved up here to get away from smog traffic congestion screaming Jets at feet and speeding tax is Wc came to little Kes wick to enjoy clean air the lake the birds the open spaces and quiet nights If Metro Toronto wants to build a new international airport tor the great big jumbo jets why dont they pid it on their own doorstep in dike Ontario The Ontario govern ment said this was going be a recreational area Ontarios playground a of small villages arid estat es I hope they werent Dry carnival Dear Editor Congratulations to the Newmarket police and other organizers of the I am part icularly happy to see that the emphasis is kept on the children during the plan ning of events for this celebration Any carnival must be kept for the kids whether in body or just It is for this reason that am particularly glad lo see that no one has suggested a beer garden such as the one held this fall In New market arena be held in conjunction with this everything these days from Mothers Day to Christmas commercial ism creeps in and of chants Im not beefing about that More power to them as long as they keep it for the kids So keep up the good work and lets keep STANLEY BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE Winters of memory are alt trie colder Weve had a dandy around here day after day of temperatures though they have been bright Hie sun had about as much effect on the atmosphere as a fried egg sunnyside up Everyone enjoys the first couple of of auch a spell Wo all feel like hardy pion eers when we stomp in out of the cold eyes and running and exchango such in anities Thats a real snapper and cold miff But after a week or so it begins to get to you You begin to remember those stor ies about people- who go mad In the rainy season or when the sirocco Is blowing It doesnt affect the kids love It bundled to the nose and full of warm red blood Most of the elderly hato It and vis- shrink It doesnt bother the outdoor enthusiasts because keep warm doing something cant lick it so join Its tho ordinary simple householder like mo who begins to feel the pinch and develops a deep gloom When you turn the In the car and it just groans like a wounded buffalo before expiring When you look up at tho loo and romombor youve just had ami listen with four and fasciim- Hon to her tales winter on Calumet Island In the Oltawa best was time tho dainty little mure through the Ice and the dreadful time they spent trying to rescue her I think she died There thcro was my Dad He hated winter and made no bones about it It was Depression limes and the coal bill was mil albatross around his neck He was mild gentle man never known to say any thing stronger than shoot Hut Inside him was of tho wild despair of his Irish fore- fathers hed go down to up the furJ Id not my ear up against tho furnace- pipe and Union with delight to latginge that should have given mo curly hair ed with the occasional clung when hed holt the furnace with his shovel out of rage I spout a winter in northern England with archaic and often nonexisting heating equipment except In the pubs Sheer misery except in the pubs I spent another In on the Baltic Sea with very little food and almost no hoat Not joy there Then I got married Our first place had two wood stoves hop out of bed plunk my freeJug baby in with mother and rustle up two fires Then Id- Belles of York By Robert White aludent who liven in the Regency A subdivision In Aurora la majoring In law enforcement She may someday be a private would like to become a law yer but feel eight yearn of college loo long now works parttime at an Aurora supermarket And finally when your downstairs facilities dont work and you realize with horror that in this day of oil furnaces pipes can freeze And tho oilman cometh And comolh and cometh This Is time whon you should stop and realize how lucky you are Instead of bonding everybodys ear with your potty woes You should how It used to bo most Canadians I was brought up on cold winters Earliest recollections are of midwinter Sunday mornings My mother would take my kid brother and me Into bed solid every night Then off through tho zero to newspaper office which boasted one of the last woodburning fur the continent You could j breath In the place until about a Wo graduated to a coal furnace did nothing but which no vie lonco and frustration my father had felt twenty years before Whon think of those days and out of bod Into pleasantly oilheated housed I ronllzo what a piddling little cold spell were having now and almost feel like going In the snow In my pyjamas and doing some pushups Almost