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Specialty to close Newmarket operation IKET Late activity at Oft Newmarket will and office staff will i into new offices in Holland Landing a few weeks later ac cording to a company spokes Of the 30 men employed in the wood manufacturing section will be laid off will be transferred to the metal manu facturing plant at Holland Land ing and four will be retired According to company Vice- president and General Manager Robert the phasing out of wood products reflects declining demand for custom With the expanded metal operations now in full produc tion at Holland Landing it will be possible to transfer a num ber of longservice employees to this operation read a notice being distributed to the em ployees Mr Carruthers told The Era that those employees who had worked there for 22 years or more would be retained Green light for librarian NEWMARKET town library board received a green light last week to hire Newmar kets first fulltime librarian Town council meeting in committee agreed to commit up to of the boards bud get immediately so it can hire the librarian The library board feels a fulltime professional librarian is be first step toward making Newmarket a regional library THE ERA Since I NEWMARKET WEDNESDAY JUNE 1971 CENTS PREPARING FOR AURO HOR SHOW Auroras Jim Elder guides Pieces of Eight over jump at his farm in preparation for this weekends 50th annual Aurora Horse Show Elder will compete in both and events including Sundays highlight the Grand Prix The show gels under way Friday night with the Show Band in concert at the Community Centre The horse events start at am Saturday Elder other members and candidates for Canadas PanAmerican Games team will lie on hand for the competition in Memorial Park Photo by Robert White Newmarket job plan killed but Blue Hills recieves grant AURORA Blue Hills Aca demy has received a grant from the Federal govern ment to operate a student staffed day camp for emotional ly disturbed and culturally de prived children this summer Vandals cost town thousands NEWMARKET Vandal ism in parks and recreation fa cilities is costing the town thousands of dollars In repair and cleanup bills recreation committee Ray told town council Monday ing pool unattended overnight without finding broken glass sticks stones and other rubbish in it In the morning he said The recreation chairman said he feels only a few young people are responsible for the damage and he appealed to boys girls and anyone living The grant is the second of its type for York Region appli cants to the governments Op portunities for Youth program An Aurora studentwork project received confirmation last week However Newmarkets ap- for a similar program has been rejected by the screen ing committee MP John Roberts said the proposal was turned down because of the amount requested and the fact that a similar project had been approved for Aurora programs so close the Newmarket pro posal which attracted more than student applicants young persons would have gone approved is identical ccpt However Aurora received only of its 17000 re quest Mr Roberts said On being told of the rejec tion Newmarket council Mon day night decided to protest through the MP Regional Councillor Ray said he feels both New market and Aurora should received a little instead of Au rora getting and market nothing Mayor Rob future projects hotter tion would be used in binding out money Youth grants was keen and sci en of applications were turned down The program has a fund of million for projects across Canada but at tracted more than 150 million in applications PAA in Aurora for bearpit AURORA Minister Pierre Trudeau will visit Aurora on June for a twohour hear pit discussion at the Com munity Centre Hell fly In by helicop ter and appear at the arena from to pm Mayor Dick confirmed the Prime Ministers visit In Aurora Council on Monday night several hours after MP John Ro berts told The Era he could not make any comment on whether Mr Trudeau was coming or not PIERRE TRUDEAU Ironically the York North Progressive Conservative Association will hold its no mination meeting the same evening at Aurora High lands Golf Club Incum bent MPP BUI Hodgson is expected to be nominated without opposition Ontario may crack down on regions if grants abused Queens Park By EVELYN BUCK TORONTO New regional governments such as York Reg ion may face a provincial crack down on spending if they abuse grants provided by the province for transitional purposes a high- speech the minister gave at the Ontario Mayors and Reeves As sociation convention in North Bay last week malgamation and DING pi ARENA ROCKED SUNDAY NEWMARKET Last weekends rock festival in New market arena was a great suc cess controlwise and the four Huron Heights students who or ganized it did what they set out to do prove to us boys and girls can put on a good show Ray Twinney recreation committee chairman told coun cil Monday Ho said police didnt have to reprimand one boy or girl all day The 1000 boys and girls handled themselves like ladles and gentlemen I think they should be congratulated Mr Twinney didnt men tion that the concert promoters expected nearly 3000 teenagers Developer will build us new pool NEWMARKET An Olympicsized outdoor swimming pool will be built for the town by Schickedanz Developments Ltd by next spring as part of the firms 120acre residential and development town council learned Monday night Olympic pools are approximately feet by feet and cost about The pool which will be constructed on a six to seven acre park site next to Rogers Public School will be part of the developers re creation and park contribution to the town The firm will also pay per home for park equipment and will grade and seed a 3V4 acre park site now adjoining the school site The money will be used for slides swings and other equipment The Ontario Municipal Act requires a subdivider to give the five per cent of his land for park use or an equivalent value Mayor Bob for the park land but equipment Hopefully we will continue this trend of closer cooperation with developers with an aim of making their de velopments selfsupporting from the towns point of view He said the pool will be constructed so that it can be closed He said the town will have a total of 10 acres of park land ad joining the 10acre Rogers school site when the contri bution is completed and when the owner of the land south of the present development decides to subdivide the town will ask him for a park which will also adjoin the school site The mayor foresees an arena going on this 10 acres Then we will have the nucleus for a complete community The pool will be part of first stage of develop ment The builder plans to put up single family homes and 77 semidetached homes in the first stage and hopes to start work on them in August The second stage will consist of a shopping plaza and hotel complex on St and apartments behind it The town is anx ious that the commercial buildings be constructed as quickly as pos sible said the mayor and is pushing Ihe builder to get on with re- zoning Although Schickedanzs park contribution on this second phase has not been negotiated yet Mayor said the town recognizes that at least part of it will be taken up by the swimming pool park complex New ranks tests discrimination police charge By JOHN Era News Editor I NEWMARKET In a direct legal challenge to its govern ing body York Regional Police Association has charged the regional police with unlawful discrimination senior officers through new policies in rank structure and pro motional examinations A notice of arbitration was served on the police commis sion last week The Era learned The notice was issued by solicitors for the association which represents Yorks rank- andfile The notice claims the com mission illegally demoted all staff sergeants and sergeants to the rank of acting patrol ser geant when it assumed control over Yorks new amalgamated police force this year The de motions result in loss of pay and fringe benefits for the af fected officers the association charges The policemen further al lege that new promotion proce dures force senior officers to write examinations for ranks they previously held when they served Willi one of York Coun 14 local police departments an officer was a sergeant last year before amalgamation should not have to write an examination to achieve that rank again under the regional rank structure the policemen charge They also claim the new motion of trol sergeants with more ex perience If a constable passes Iu examination for sergeant he could outrank a patrol ser geant who either fails or does not choose to lake the test Under the Police Act arbi tration is usually the last resort According to Yorks ice agreement an a grievance would chief Failing succt b1 it then would p direct discussions with the c mission before an arbitrator i called in In this case the If the arbitration procedure is followed through the next step would be to appoint a judge to arbitrate discussions on the associations complaints Should the parties fall to agree on an arbitrator he would be appoint ed by the attorney general A police association officer declined public comment on the dispute Chief Bruce Crawford also had no comment But it is common i police circles that regional police all ranks as acting ranks This is common procedure on forma tion of a regional police force To date no ranks have been confirmed Some policemen partic ularly those who were chiefs or deputychiefs in the county last year were given new acting ranks This action was reclassification by the com mission bat many policemen in terpret the term to mean de classified Under legislation creating the Region of York all policemen must be paid salaries at least as high as they received last year But that rule is in effect only for 1971 Some policemen See DISCRIMINATION page No road for new school students unless immediate action Is taken to construct a road and services sharedcost arrangement for building it For background Coach f AURORA After seven straight Aurora Astros lacrosse team fired Coach Bill Lubbock on Monday and re placed him with veteran player Lubbock was fired because he failed to make the team gel said General Manager Harry Reynolds Astros which lost two more games by scores of and last week have been playing to dismally small crowds t the community centre in their first designate in the Ontario Sen-