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Tfc Era CM Wed February II THE ERA Serving York County Sinn DAVID R HASKELL TERRY CARTER DONALD JOHN We need a firm apartment policy Newmarket needs a firm policy governing construction of apartment buildings Its not enough to limit the size of the building and make sure adequate sewers and schools are available for its future tenants Torontos suburbs discovered that over a decade ago Administrations there particu larly in and North York hungry for assessment and inexperienced in dealing with the pressures an area faces development is imminent allowed apartment builders to call the shots The result was a dreary unattractive brick boxes crammed into fields of asphalt along sixlane traffic arteries such as Eglinton Ave East and Lawrence Ave We at The Era take pride in the way we have presented the news over the years And this pride has been justified because of the recognition The Era has received over the years from the newspaper industry Only last week The Era received two awards from the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association These awards follow on the heels of other awards won in nationwide competi tions as well as provincewide competitions The ability to win these awards but more important to publish a newspaper which has the respect of the community it serves is achieved by employing the best possible talent in the editorial department and by enforcing a strict code of editorial excellence East Sometimes they were plopped into the backyards of existing singlefamily homes Newmarket already has some fine examp les of this type of apartment development along Davis Dr for instance The apartment building presently under construction on Queen St just west of is for all practical purposes in the back yards of nearby homes When the Toronto suburbs finally awoke to the fact they had created an asphalt jungle they cracked down They forced new apartment builders to sign stiff site plan agreements regulating impost charges the municipality could collect to cover its costs building materials the amount of the lot the building could cover landscaping above and Pirates of the air The Era employs four fulltime people in the editorial department In addition there are correspondents in every major community the newspaper serves And in addition to these there are columnists who comment on local national and international events To provide The Eras readers with the writings of these editors reporters cor respondents and columnists it is necessary to pay them thousands of dollars each month It is therefore most disconcerting to say the least to listen to the Richmond Hill radio station and the Newmarket Cable TV station and hear news items which appeared in the current issue of The Era being broadcast over the air word for underground parking and many other things Newmarket must profit from these les sons so sadly learned in Metro and the time is now Apartment builders are already mov ing in and the town will never be in a better position to establish control Development is frozen and a new official plan is entering its final stages Its now or never The town must establish a firm policy on where it wants apartments how big it wants them to be and what it wants them to look like The policy must have regard for the quality of life the buildings will offer tenants as well as owners of neighboring homes After all apartment tenants are as much citizens as are the residents of homes many men and women many many hours to This air piracy is nothing new it has been going on here and in other areas for years And when it comes time to have their broadcasting licences renewed they point with pride to all the community program ming they have done but forget to point out they were able to do so through the sweat of somebody elses brow This space is reserved or the opinions and drawings of The Eras read Please feet free to send your si along All we ask Is that you include your name and address suggest you with a cutout the muf fler shall be used Snowmobiles shall not be operated within immediate vicinity of nursing homes skat ing rinks during all Richmond Hill radio and the Newmarket Cable TV stations and play a fascinating game Its called Head Along With Ken and Read Along With Roy They both make the fluffs NEWSROOM NOTES Of contests food and all that stop at all intersections 2 Snowmobiles will travel only in single file speed not greater than Ten miles per hour 3 Snowmobiles will not be operated on without No shall be done after the hour of 1100 oclock PM within the Town except in going to or re turning from an evening to a the Criminal Code of Canada The Ontario High- Way Traffic Act c The Motorized snow vehicles Act amended to is hoped that all snow machine operators will abide by these rules and avoid further action which could necessitate Council passing prohibi tive bylaws Copies of the Motor ized Snow Vehicles Act referred to are being re quested from Toronto will have same availsVs on request in the near the permission dove ha sice These rules are not a complete listing of e Provincial or his manager since my return It would appear that Basher has gone into sec lusion or perhaps training for all the things hes going to do during this weeks winter carnival And besides the ice joust rules used in Cynthia Oomlauts forefathers days are cer tainly not applicable today In those days the snowmobile was unheard of and the musk ox of yesteryear certainly never had the power and speed of todays snowmobiles However those rules could be changed a bit to match the times and I am sure Ill be to talk to Basher able to track Basher down and chat with him BILL GAMBLES TOWN CRIER charming couple provided me with xy courtesy and they were even able to scrounge some muskeg wine for my visit Canadas north But it would be unfair of me to outline anything here and now on what I learned at the Oomlaut igloo about ice jousting as I have not had Charm all about it I havent a word of encouragement for people who lack personal charm In fact I hadnt even given the subject of personal charm a single thought until I tried to have a new photo taken for this column I said to the chap taking the picture How come Im so unphotogenic He replied Because you lack personal charm But when I asked him to elaborate on his remark he stammered and stuttered and said Because youre so so oh I dont that almost anyone can recognize it as it rears its captivating head but I have yet to meet the person who can describe it In the old days people attempted to classify may have It or you may have oomph in which ease youve certainly got charm Hut if youre a man you may have neither oomph nor It and still have charm It is generally believed that about per cent of the worlds charm has been doled nut to women leaving a mere per cent Give them bit of charm and what do they do with it They waste it on such mer cenary pursuits as selling insurance vacuum cleaners used cars and sets of encyclopedia Women on the other hand are not nearly stingy with their charm Ordinar ily they fling it around with all the reck less abandon of a Chinese waiter dishing out spaghetti at a Polish banquet They utilize They spray it at men other women children mirrors and anything that can be worn on the female form In other words women dont keep their charm locked up They let It run free where it can do most harm There is of course a big difference be tween natural charm and the synthetic kind Synthetic charm is manufactured and is therefore more easily spotted for what it Its the natural charm however which everything around us that needs watch ing most In literature painting fashion young children and people over it can be quite harmless But in those between the ages of and it can have the deadlines of arsenic the of a nuclear bomb and all the brainnumbing hypnotic power of an not necessarily so It is quite often at its strongest in Ugliness A woman who Is charming hut unattractive can be pleasing to he with A woman who is charming and beautiful can be dangerous to he near If you have charm probably you arc not aware of it If you search for it in yourself and find it you certainly havent got it It can occasionally be found in anger frequently in pride but never in vanity Shyness inno cence and naivete may be said to have an association with charm but only to a small degree Beyond that either may be attribut ed to simplicity of mind In short charm can be said to work miracles or move mountains It is the chief cause of wooing marrying divorcing and literally getting away of homes the starter of wars the stealer of chastity the eradicator of humility and the destroyer of respect In it is a virtue yet not all vir tuous women are endowed with It In no respect can it be said to he Immoral yet all immoral women have It to some degree It Is indestructible a hangeron Once you have it you cant get rid of It Among other things it is a pleasure to the eye a comfort to the heart and some times a torment to the sou But above alt It is habitforming a drug the most powerful drug used by humanity Become accustomed to regular doses of it particul arly from members of the opposite sex and it 1b almost impossible to do without the stuff again If youre one of those people with of charm dont be offended by all this Its merely that since I dont have any of my own Ive been trying to convince myself that I can get along without it After all who needs charm anyway long enough so that the joust will be fair and square and entertaining for all I see by last weeks Era that there is a fantastic and large variety of events sched uled for th Winter Carnival and about the only thing that seems to be missing is a tug- ofwar between one of Ray tow trucks and one belonging to Dave Williams A certain fellow I know whos name begins with would be an excellent referee Theres also a variety of eating contests hot dogs and doughnuts and things There should be no shortage of contestants for these But what about a beer drinking con test for next year There would be a deluge of contestants Various firms and clubs could enter five- man teams The Era would be a top contender with such stalwarts as Terry Carter myself Ed and Bob Greenfield Taylor could be our anchor man Anyway its some thing to think about As well as the joust on Fairy Lake on Sunday I have been asked lo judge the Miss Snow Queen contest Thursday night at the town hall I hope the Winter Carnival Committee has all the Miss Snow Queen contestants alt signed sealed and delivered For you see first prize is me Liquor party Dear Editor Era shows that the with approximate ly of this being spent on liquor taxpayers I council wants to hold a party it is quite alright but when our tax money is spent on liquor we pro test It is not right If such parties are so need- that they should spend We do hope that this council or any future co uncils will keep in mind how hard it is for us the taxpayers to keep pay- After all this money could have been spent for so many other things other than a big liquor ROBERT SCOTT Clerk ol the Christian Baptist Church on behalf BILL SMILEYS SUG AND SPICE Why worry about fat in the bacon Its one of those wild Canadian nights with the wind howling like a pack of wolves on an LSD trip and snow seeking out every crevice My wife came down today and found a little kid trying manfully to shut our front door which had been blown open There nit eight inches o I the furnace was with a hernia Its the sort of night when you think prairies They were giants compared to us pamp ered doughty creatures who whimper about and get sick at the thought that we might not be able to get the out of the drive in the morning We simply cant imagine getting up at five in pitch dark lighting a lamp building a fire breasting it through three or four feet of snow lo the barn or leanto to see whether the animals have sur vived feeding them numb to the bone and buck in to make porridge A tough life but is some ways we must envy them They didnt have to worry about too much cholesterol in the eggs too much fat in the They didnt have that demon of today the alarmclock to tear their tender morning nerves And maybe because they werent geared to the clock they missed some of the joys of modern life They didnt have ulcers because they had to do something about their prob lems not just worry about them They werent constipated because they didnt have time in that cold Their women werent so neurotic because they didnt have time to worry about nerves cancer gray hair and wrinkles It was a hard life no question But were they worse off than we Maybe their kids had to walk three miles to school thro- ugh the snow But when they got there there wasnt anybody trying to convince them that sniffing nail polish was the greatest And the same kids when they hit their teens were young men and women capable and independent My grandmother died at S3 Fatigue and childbearing common enough in those days There were nine children And my mother the oldest girl reared th lot of Most of our kids today couldnt raise a guinea pig without the help of two parents and a veterinarian I am presently trying to convince my daughter that the freeenterprise system has its point She has some piano pupils She thinks it Is atrocious that she gets only half the fee the kids pay a mere a halfhour while the studio owner takes the other half I point out to her that he picks her up and delivers her home that it is his studio his piano advertising his overhead Nope It Is a clear case of vicious capitalistic exploit ation of the young And my mother hitched up the or horseandcutter and drove all over Calumet Island and half of Pontiac County giving lessons at fifty cents an hour And drove the long dark lonely road home Its riot the money Half a buck then was probably worth more than four dollars today Its the attitude Theres nobody to be blamed They grew up in an era of comparative peace when a strong back and a strong will gave you a life that was rewarding We grew up through a depression and a world war and sought security Our kids are growing up in Mary Dolderaum a memtx Of class at Newmarket High re t with her husband after having lived In 1 London for p BV Robert Whit than any of us to the truth with their ay nile at Robert Armstrong Rial Estate slogan at Love and Peace