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Ik En Oat Wed THE ERA Serving York County Since Sin Phone Newmarket 30 Charles St Phone Aurora 7274024 DAVID HASKELL CARTER Instead of dignity a slap in the face York Regional Council made another its penny wise and pound foolish Councillors rejected a proposal from the chief administrative officer which provide all department heads with Instead councillors passed a resolution hich would permit the department heads charge cents a mile while on region by council will surely cost the ns taxpayers money in the long run The chief administrative officers prop- was to provide leased cars and pay for gas oil maintenance repairs and while the department heads are region business But the region would not have to pay entire cost of the leased cars only r month per car This means for example the car lease cost was per month department head would have per nth deducted from his pay packet He aid also have to pay expenses for his own It was pointed out that the department Its rejection was heads will average 15000 miles per year department head Mathematics shows that at 14 cents per slap in the face to the mile for the first 10000 per mile over 10000 it will cost the region a nice round It may very well he that the operating expenses on top of the lease cost will come close to But the chief admin istrative officers proposal would save endless hours of bookkeeping and wads of mileage There are several local municipalities in the Region of York which provide leased cars to department heads Virtually every municipality in Metro Toronto provides department and who a department heads have The 16 regional councillors who quickly voted to pay themselves each a year now have voted just as quickly not to spend a total of a year for six department life savers Canvassers whose it is to go from opinion that the day when all organizations door to door seeking donations for the vari- would be put under complete government is campaigns for the Heart Fund Cancer control was not far off 4M Old Ontario St CI living in lest Quaker Meting Hou finished two yean building north Ter John JO Park hat pent much his retirement sketching old buildings Above Is his sktch of St in in 1B10 on the meeting house was the first religious poises for the six EI he region a total of have to be leases plus operating cannot be Retarded Childrf are reported and compassion scarce Volunteers have reported that younger citizens refer to their parents or report my parents are out Other stock answers are no money in the house loo many appeals come back another day In larger centres where there is a United Appeal it is even forecast that services may However something new has intervened which has been a real shot in the arm for many of the hardpressed funds The involve ment of young people and many older ones as well in walkathons the recent St John Ambulance and Miles for Missions come to mind and contests of this nature have raised amazing sums which would not have been forthcoming any other way They have added a new dimension to giving the fun dimension plus the involve- it of many more people The idea has THE Readers ERA along All reserved or the comments drawings of The Eras read- feel free to send yours He ask is that you include address- in Lake Michigan in D SSt inking Wat- Many have wondered and expressed the been excellent NEWSROOM NOTES Darting attacking buzzing and BITING The Ontario Depart of has given we1 the farmers permission and its to use approximately five present invertebrates and fish a the DDT to be used tne Iak bottom during the months of dave of 14 parts per billion From there ma material was be used only if per to about SO times it of the total onion that level in the is In danger due vlng cutworms DDT is 042 mg1 that five tons of DDT is used in the marsh area this year it will require approximate ly 20840625000 gallons of water equally diluted with DDT to meet the above Canadian Stand- lncial ministers re questing the immediate withdrawal of DDT The OF AH has been engaged in this struggle for the past month in poreia if finis to i little from Victo Like Spring mosquitoes te this year But theyr not the smoke and flame from he first one attracted them but I do know that it is very difficult to swat mosquitoes with a match in one hand and i bottle of in the other I can also report that the Saturday attack not a sporadic sortie as they were around luring the day on Sunday and very much evidence at nightfall I actually look forward to the arrival of he to Mosquito Manor much the as I look forward to the first robin Jr the first buds on the trees I must admit conducting the annual Mosquito Manor the hater two spring arrivals delight me yrotechnics display The display was delay- more than the former Just as soon as I lit the second Roman le the little blighters attacked I dont attack biting with fierce bloodsucking The first bite at Mosquito Manor about two weeks ago but Im sure fellow didnt know what time of year because it was the only one I saw aturally he would have to bite me But the warm weather of the past week or coupled with the earlier rain has brought as the lord and e mortgage payer of multiplication effect I have become almost 500 times i hazard of squaw because of WHOS maximum fish and old human species and the It is now apparent that he support of citizens Is definitely re quired to have this ban enforced in the Holland Marsh Kindly write your letters to all your local MPs Provincial Health Energy and Resources the have seen that departments I their glory BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE A sober side to Junes delights In other countries they have spring In his country we have a bleak month before he last snow goes and June bursts forth n all her lush soft splendour Grass is startling green and the cattle fill their bellies with the juicy sweetness after a long winter of confinement and dull fodder Young ones of all species actually gambol nort kick up their heels and butt their mothers on one side then on the udder Our trees have forgotten their groaning and cracking in the teeth of winter they bow and whisper like ladies at a garden party while the squirrels scamper saucily about their leg3 and the birds twitter among bosoms and verdant hair June is full of anticipation The boat are painting and repairing and The golfers arc having their hour before the silly summer duffers onto the courses to revel in turning you into a swollen porpoise or a stripped skeleton Theres all that luxuriant grass Hut the damned stuff is up to your knees before you get your overhauled And theres all that young life June happy month for my mother Mosquito Mam accustomed to them I have learned to almost ignore them as I go about cutting the 256731290 by actual count blades of grass If one lands within swatting range it is swatted If it lands out of range it biles me So what can I do Ignore it thats all Another trick Ive learned over the years is NOT to scratch a mosquito bite Scratch ing only antagonizes the bite and makes it itchier I have learned to simply take another swallow of and glower at the bite If the bite will stop itch ing and disappear in about 15 minuted Non- scratching also curtails the spilling of saparilla I guess Im more fortunate than most people about mosquito bites A friend of mine one Cecil Jennings attracts mosquitoes and ensuing bites like a magnet One day I dragged the Rig Eye into the backyard to watch a baseball game It was a hot hot day in June with the sun just heating down Within seconds a horde of mosquitoes flew past me and landed on Cecil and bit him He asked inside and 1 said it was biological food chains which greatly increases the accumulation of DDT in each species DDT is a potent insecticide by Ingestion and by contact and is poisonous to all species This is proven by fish In live gulls that fish and birds store fed on the fish average of DDT up to values were 21 parts per lcvek above million in the brain this level And do we not In breast muscle and In body fat all wet weight of DDT and its metabolites In birds suspected of having died from Insecti cide poisoning concent rations of DDT and its in Toronto Ontario Donald Chairman article in the 1966 Jour- metabolites in the brain of Applied Ecology easl ppm on papers by J A Keith Canadian NOTES The World BILL GAMBLE Whatever turns you on Bill and garden show They certainly have a flair for coaxing people particularly erring males out of worshiping retirement If they had told me that they were going have four beautiful young ladies in lo take the TV Hint costumes stealing the thunder of the day to be Id have been leaning against indoors lie said I was cruel and mean but nevertheless stayed outdoors and watched the ball game with me sweltering under the fold In fuel if this kind of promotion the hot sun and wrapped from neck to toe continues 1 may even take up gardening door when they opened it As is 1 seriously thinking of relii isbiug my atheistic ways mid returning So s ago than it is decent to talk about proudly bore her third so what she got was a sickly whelp Hut for two years without stopping and barely survived every infants ailment there was in those days Theres all that anticipation But the owner discovers that the rats have been at his sails or the termites at his hull or his motor has developed a perforated ulcer And the golfer swings too hard on his first day out slips a disc and is out for the To be sure school is nearly out But June is pure hell for both teacher and student For the teacher it is a scramble of final reviews an avalanche of evaluation a surfeit sties Fair enough Hes paid for it light as well be leaching a couple The bodies are there but in a heavy wool blanket I told him that only the female mosqnil biles but that failed lo console him 1 felt a gren other when a if Id like to But he of cords of 1 il nil open windows into the musky June Its even worse for the student There is that oaf talking about poetry when the greatest poetry in he world is taking place outside that stifling rectangular prison The blood stirs the limbs go languorous the eyes go glassy and that retarded adult up front might as well he talking to himself In As for those beautiful mnrriages con ceived In heaven and timetabled for June Its probably just as well If there were statistics Id say that statistics no bad smells we wouldnt appreciate the f good ones If we never felt pain or illness we wouldnt appreciate health And school Is nearly over And the most beautiful marriages ever conceived are in the offing a month when surely every Canadian should be shouting Praise the Lord or Let joy be unconfined or at least Wow This is the greatest I a benevolent Providence in it wis- must remind man that every rose has a thorn that every light contains its darkness that every good has balancing well If there 1I1H thirty cut of them will be unbearable ten per cent will five per cent unspeakable Theres all that glorious nature just waiting to be revelled in And there are all those mosquitoes and j wait- usual presenting the facts Belles of York she n titty well Ah being infant The aid Dr Williwn student an cook in not hat bakes nil tint family cake brother Don- By Robert White It is refreshing to know that provinces such as Saskatchewan Alberta and Quebec not to mention states in the can find nothing wrong in moderate gambling When is Ontario going to wise up Someone asked me the other day why didnt attend the Newmarket sidewalk sale Well lo tell yon the truth I wouldnt now what to do with a sidewalk once I got it home Looking at my new Census of Canada quest it is clear that the dominion of Statistics has never even heard of the Womens Liberation Movement The very first question is Relationship to Head of Household Obviously the answer is Husband a Another cute question which they call asks How do you enter your living quarters my hnnrt I asked the Very quietly with my shoes ooooOoooo publisher of this if he had any couple of week as to what I could write about He said Theres a lot of controversy about sept tanks these days See what you with Well I it and all is piece of doggerel Ive called it Epitaph Here lies the body of Charlie Who from the liquor that he Developed an ulcer They called it peptic The reason he died Tank was septic While Im on the subject of verse if j can all it that Id like for a moment go from the ridiculous to the sublime Apropos of last weeks column in I endeavored to impart a morsel of to young married couples I feel the follow lines may help accentuate my meaning have called it simply Love Her Say yon adore her once in a tray With on orchid or two for effect Or the thing you enjoy as her lore May tomorrow become her respect up I