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Oneway Main St by autumn Twinney predicts I the three blocks of Main St I from Millard Ave to Water St I oneway southbound will go into I effect in September predicts Ray Twinney works I construction work on the Lome Ave extension Millard Ave and Church St Is completed this I Of Slain St from Davis Dr Water St will have two I said Mr ring road around the downtown vis Dr to use us Lome Ave and Millard Traffic hitting Main St at Millard will be able to turn either left or right at a light there and cars will be able to go east to Prospect St from Main either via Timothy St or Water or west to Eagle St Main was made oneway only to Millard because of the fire Main St the councillor explain- bound Niagara St from Davis traffic the plan will make St oneway east bound maintain Timothy St Traffic lights will i level and pave the parking and well have a gas war next week NEWMARKET A gas war is expected In this area within a week Ray predict ed Monday as York Regions police commission discussed the high price police cruisers pay for Mr who Is both a police commis town from the northwest Da- called again the need to buy gasoline from private service stations At current rates cruisers use about worth of gas a year Meanwhile police are paying up to 55 cents per gallon for regular gas at at least one King Township station Commissioner Cook said That man must be a robber said Mr Twinney Anyway I think youll see a gas war in the next week or so Twinney In explaining some of the changes he said Niagara St was made oneway to eliminate the existing bottleneck created now by traffic attempting to force Its way onto busy Davis Dr The councillor said eventu ally a new street on the north side of Davis Dr will meet Da vis at Lome Ave creating a major northsouth artery stretching across town Reconstruction of Lome from Millard south is slated for 1073 Coun Twinney said con tracts for this years Lome Millard and Church reconstruc tion will be let as soon as the towns budget Is approved and the work is expected to be completed by Sept 1 Eagle will also be finished by then he VOL NO PAGES Since I NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 17 AURORA CENTS Library budget cuts mean shorter hours higher fines NEWMARKET A I Cutback In he Newmarket Pub I lie Library boards proposed budget will mean the library will close evenings beginning June 1 will I close Saturdays from July 1 to Labor Day and will increase Bring to York NIAGARA FALLS Ontario should pour millions of dollars fin the next few years Into buy- on north- rj doorstep one of the nations planning experts told panel discussion here last week Max llacon of the Metro- based consulting engineering and municipal planning firm of and I Bacon told a Recreation Land Use Planning conference here that it would be more feasible the provincial government large tracts of land in Region and build artificial flakes camp grounds huge pic- parks and nature and trails on them than to con- to build expensive road systems to Muskoka and Hail speech entitled Bring I Muskoka to the City Mr Bacon I maintained that Ontario is spending millions on roads to northern cottage areas only a relatively small percentage of the pro- ince I population can afford to buy cottage I a year and has two cars He predicted that if much more recreation land isnt made available people will soon he cutting properly fences on Lake Slmcoe and forcing their way day for children and from three to five cents a day for adults the library board decided last during the balance of the year will save about in the budget said Mr Nesbitt Mrs Walsh said later it will be close to the summer Sal- unlay closings will save tho board 400 and it expects to In crease 1972 revenues by 1000 through the fine Increase The savings are neglig ible board finance chairman Jim told the board We felt some alternation in hours was in keeping with the reduction in our budget hough The board was told the one major area of library operations not hit by the budget cut back was hook purchasing We should he spending a little over per cent of our budget on books and his is about per budget had Included sand dollars below last years book expenditures The budget was cut follow committee Mr told last week meeting the library budget was surer Parks indicated 65- is about hi most the hoard could hope for from the town The library budget still must have town council appro val before it becomes official A number of other plans went by the wayside when the was taken from the hud- get said Mrs Walsh Among these were plans to hire a full- time clerk and a summer uni versity student and to increase the hours of part time staff should do and so wont get more important chores done She said it will also mean plans to expand childrens programs cut to after Bogarttown father of six crushed in tractor mishap NEWMARKET father of six suffered serious Injuries when he was crushed under his tractor late Sunday afternoon York Reg ional Police reported Clifford Jones York County Hospital The cancan kickers may not all be kicking together or even kicking the same leg but they were all prelty to look at The girls performed last Friday night on stage on Newmarket High where students and the schools Music Club presented Music Night On the program where 31 selections ranging from the dance above to a Bach chorale and a Beethoven hymn Dancers from left arc Susan Karen Noble Sidney Dunn Julia Tolman Sheila Barb Gloria and Kim Parradtne White photo Yorks provincial grants higher than expected stairs rooms was taken out plans to buy new film projectors must he dropped longdistance phone calls and stationery pur chases will ha severely limited Mas cut to the bono and plans to purchase son mi ii I hi nil artists to the library and to bring Royal Ontario Museum be explained that the 10000 Increase the town is al lowing the library board this year over last will all be ab sorbed in the personnel budget NEWMARKET York Reg ional Council now has the pro vincial grant information it has been asking for since it began budget deliberations in March and tlte news is better than anticipated The regions unconditional grants from the province arc up over last year and the figure With this information In hand regional council tomor row morning will again tackle the job of setting its 1072 bud get and the tax levies for its nine member municipalities Race horses die in fire MOUNT ALBERT Two harness race horses were burned to death and assorted farm im plements were destroyed in a south of here Sunday night when an implement shed caught fire and burned to the ground The fire on the farm of Rose between Centre Rd and the Line started around 030 pm and was noticed by icighbor Miss Shirley Oldham The two horses valued at 5000 each by Mr Rose were lost as well as racing equipment including sulkies and harnesses Two tractors a combine a plow planter The morning session will be closed to the public and press and will i followed by an open meeting at pm when the final budget may or may not be adopted council settles on a bud get tomorrow morning staff will attempt to incorporate re visions into a final printed ver sion In time for the afternoon council meeting Mr Kettle said Whether that can be accom plished depends on how exten sively council cuts the proposed estimates The grant information long with equalized assessment figures for the nine towns and townships clears the way for council to finalize the budget On three occasions March March 10 and March 16 Throat slit over 404 police say last week resulted in one man being slashed across the throat with a butcher knife and a sec ond person charged with assault causing bodily harm York Regional Police said the alleged assault occurred in a Jacksons Point cabin at am Gordon Thomas Johnston was treated by a Sutton j Monday Mr Jones is holding 42 is by the fire The cause is u known but Mr Rose said foul play is suspected Wesley Neal of Point will appear in New- Experiment director Anna Palo dusts off cradle built by one of groups members Such craft items arc sold to help fund the project Photo Barn group defends federal grant after criticism by Stevens By JOHN LOTT Era News Editor BRADFORD The hammering sawing and sanding in the big barn stopped when Anna called and about young people gathered around to hear tall lean and bearded Karl Mutchow read Sinclair Stevens press release criticizing federal grants to the Experiment As Mr read aloud Mrs picked up a dulcimer and began playing softly as she listened to the words Progressive Conservative candidate had written for tho press It was a sunny warm Saturday morning on this rolling streamsplit farm seven miles north of Bradford The previous day Mr Stevens had summoned regional reporters to Newhtar ket to chastize Ottawa for giving Mrs Claremont Experiment in grants to renovate the barn for use in a summer program of sensitivity training for area teen- After hearing Mr Stevens comments Mrs a former nurse with years background in various aspects of sensitivity training said softly This man is obviously using us as a means for getting into office Hes obviously trying to create a scandal Participants in the Experiment say the barn renovations the dwelling areas Ihe craft workshop the planned program of creative renewal through drama art and music are all part of their quiet crusade to help rescue urban trapped society from the metropolitan The group received two federal grants One for under the Local Initiatives Program LIP for the barn renova tions and one for under the Opportunities for Youth scheme to conduct their summer programs The LIP grant expires May 31 the grant begins June In his prepared statement Mr Stevens called the grants more evidence of mistake and inconsistency in the Lib eral governments approach to its current wave of workincen tive programs Why he wondered had Ottawa been so generous to mont a Toronto- based organization iknjinj funds to local student groups seeking to run a Toronto to commuter train and conduct a recreation survey in Newmarket am challenging the federal governments grant policy specifically whether Mrs Palo in conducting a experiment Mr Steve But in his press release lie expressed dou grants would have been approved if arc When Mr Stevens came here lie did about what we do here and he sessions Mrs said A Stcvci flowers Earlier he had said They say they happy vibrations at their farm IPs a different way of thinking Mrs PaloHeimo rcadilj acknowledges tint her experiment represents a different way of thinking About eight persons now live at the barn fulltime while sec STEVENS QUESTIONS page Experimental project won Roberts support YorkSimcoc MP John Ro berts supported the Opportunities for Youth grant lo the Ex periment he said this week He called it a reason able project involving sin cere people and said I see no reason why they should nt be given a grant is original doubts disappeared completely agencies Pro ject director Anna Palo- said these agencies have agreed to refer per sons to the Claremont Ex periment this summer Mr Roberts said he did suggest to officials that a festival of chants should he dropped from the groups proposal It was dropped at direction both Mr Roberts and Mrs PaloHeimo confirmed al though a subsequent go vernment press release of under Local Initiatives Program but added that this factor wouldnt have changed his support of the grant For Mr Roberts com ments on this and other lo cal grants see Page