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Teacher quits charges standards slipping Heights Secondary School have deteriorated considerably County board 1 a fiveyear teaching veteran of the school charged last week in his letter of resignation Mathematics and physical education teacher Rodney Hyde who Is in his sixth year on the teachers room at the school I said the York County School board has become a power structure In which the bureau cratic barriers between those making decisions at the admin- process at the classroom level have become Insurmountable He wrote the board Is con cerned more with assuring its educational practices that individual freedoms for students and teachers have been reduced and said field trips and other In his resignation letter which Mr Hyde posted in the Council orders plans for new town hall no site chosen NEWMARKET Plans and specifications for a new town hall were ordered by town council at a closed meeting Nov although no site has been settled on It was revealed at Monday nights council meeting has been re tained by the town to develop the plans and specifications Mr Howe has been authorized to do up to work on them Council is rushing into the plans before settling on the site which will be somewhere in the downtown area because if It is to take advantage of fed eral winter works grants the new hall must be completed by May Mayor Rob told The No cost of the building consideration was revealed the mayor said council is a square remainder for council The building will probably be a one- Only area builders will be New centre to be a model Bob a member of Yorks social services told I council Monday He said the plans will almost surely be given final approval by York regional council Newmarket protests payment process park NEWMARKET Metro Toronto and Ontario govern should pay for expressed disapproval of pro- Town wont buy aerial Newmarket council Monday night The decision enough He pointed out neither town has very many highrise build ings and that Auroras truck Is always on emergency standby one truck In the area is suffi cient he said tional grants At t little data in It He the statements are judgments tng that the administrators of I disagree wil York County would rather en- he has a right to tin joy directing their bureaucra- If he wants to tic machine if they could ellm- age to the school entirely Mr Hyde told The I the first posted In t first day his letter creating a story thats his right Mr Hydes letter asked why the situation which last fall in a timetabling crisis and the firing of the Huron Heights In that incident students found they had been improperly timetabled or not quickly relieved the principal after school opening and threw warned It is losing them and will continue to lose them Mr Hyde who is single planning to tempor- County education dl University of Alberta While at the school he has staff advisor to the intra mural program and he founded the ski club and the rugger He told The Era he feels teachers throughout York Reg ion arc disenchanted county administration public and high school levels and he feels Huron Heights thought of by administration sort of second rate place both ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1971 of recreational and It demanded that the pro vince increase grants and that Metro Toronto assumes a por tion of the cost and that the bal ance be shared between lhc conservation authority and reg ional government so that the Township of be ex cluded from any cost other than Us normal contribution to reg ional government for the con servation budget recent apparent ly successful bid to have the South Lake Conserva tion Authority purchase a five- acre lakcshore park but with the township picking up a large portion of the lab spurred Region Plan has Township as prima recreation land in the futm hut it did not say who buy and develop the parks who would supply this lost i sessment in future budgets pick up this lab instead of Yorks municipalities through the regional government A BALLOT Voters back cocktail lounges by over NEWMARKET It cost Newmarket voters about apiece to find out if they want ed to buy their liquor in cock- And last Saturday a total of 1143 turned out at polls throughout the per cent in fa that way A breakdown showed voted in favor of cocktail bars voted them with the remaining ballots rejected A scant per cent of the turned out making last plebiscite the quietest history of drinking Only four of the polling subdivision voted dry three of ihum in the southeast pari town And two of these are in what was Whitchurch Town- advertising of polling clerks plebiscite me it a person can buy 40000 fire leaves six on Mulock Rd homeless NEWMARKET is estimated at in flash fire that ripped through house and adjoining barn the early Sal Screaming livestock are en Spot the merchant entries flood in vouchers goes of Queen The second prize of in vouchers goes to Mrs Olive Cou- of Mount Albert and third voucher goes to the Newmarket Fire Chief Cliff said Mr Cameron raced to the barn in an attempt to res- 10 horses trapped inside He get close to refused to move and kicked at him when he tried to lead them out Mr Cameron got a mare out of the barn and the mare then the other colts to killed dogs of ltd THAT WAS A POTHOLE I if you think the potholes on St used to he bad just about this crater Rill jt his ilr into this last week over the prut stations of Tripp Construct ton Ron Porter the time Mr hud stopped his iir began to roll into this 16 foot deep Eagle anil Lome New market A low truck lifted the car out with only minor damage W Gordon of i Newmarket hese lucky prizewinners been notified by mail five others who re ed Theatre passes the consolation prize The fire was still smoldering Sunday afternoon Mr- Cameron who suffered smoke inhalation was admitted to York County Hospital and placed in an oxygen tent Joseph owner of the buildings said the fire apparently started i lie tie had been The buildings had old and works Rcrnard I Oil firm objects to tendering decision dent of Ltd whose firm had previous Wolves plague livestock submitted low bid si iip tender for diescl fuel which rejected lie said tl at council had a- warded the contracts with their minds already made up Mr said that his SHARON Preying wolves continue to plague East bury farmers snaring daylight farmhouses and barns council was told Monday Particularly menaced Is the area between Holt and Raven- shoe along the Fifth and Sixth Concessions Maybe we should put a stakeout up there suggested Mayor Gladys Rolling in con way of solving diescl fuel requirements for hunting wolves when he actually after deer Fear was also expressed by council that ordinary residents given the chance of shooting wolves would increase the al ready serious problem of injury to farm livestock and even other hunters for fuel oil the lidding in which Mr flyers admitted his company had lit- l diesel fuel lerjec Sutherland out that a dealt Willi and run In to breakdown tot primes lie said ti ere I ad been little breakdown time lost by township vehicles Mr Sutherland that one of the township les in question was one of those with which there had been prob lems a decade ago try a of see if you run Into 5ked Mr well be only happy said Mayor f Seek free rabies clinic with tenders called at t be put in the i claim by and fuels had changed age he slid In Mr that both machinery the York Region area East Township Council will request the provin cial Department of Health to set a rabies clinic for the township the Yonge St barn above a may soon vanish See page The supermarket price war it nearly a year old now We did a surrey to see where the lowest prices in Newmarket are See page IB Wish you could take a holiday in Ken Qrr and Jim Sloane are off to there for a rugger game See page Should archaeologists be digging for Indians bones No says a Keswick Indians See pa