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THE ERA VOL ltl NO Niwaukit M FACES ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY 12 1972 II CENTS Council to make offer on Timothy St site on which it plans to build town hall NEWMARKET Town council voted Monday to make an offer of purchase lor the nowvacant former Office Specialty site on the aide of Timothy SI The amount of the offer was not disclosed a plebiscite would be needed to spend money the scheme was Council could have dispensed with the plebiscite by advertising its Intention and waiting days for objections but the delay would have meant no winter works grant Now If It can purchase the land town council will be ready to proceed with construction of the building whenever financing Is Newmarket last weekend young people staged a clean a to raise funds purchase a Sunday I Debbie Slaucnwhite BUT REBATE WITHDRAW ADDS 73 TO BILL Most Newmarket property taxes all in EG DOWN SHARON Property taxes In East Township will drop almost two mills or about on average home assessed at this year and will drop over about 3tt mills on the same amount RE The townships budget struck at a meet ing June levied a general residential public school mil public supporter will compared with last year However homeowners must pay approximately this year which they did not have to pay last year because the Ontario government has withdrawn Its residential tax rebate program for Because of transitional ad just merits made necessary by regional government ratepay ers in Sharon Mount Albert and Holland Land- Political clubs OK but IRA trustee asks AURORA Communists in the schools i spectre was raised by from MP J Roberts asked clarification of the boards position on the form of political clubs within Crackdown on loitering planned NEWMARKET Newmarket councils annual summer foot ball people loitering on Main St was bounced around again at last weeks meeting Councillor Ray kick ed off by telling council he had relayed several complaints to York Region Police Chief Bruce Crawford but that the chief had said his hands are lied because Newmarket loitering bylaw all night said Twinney Mayor Bob Eorhan said would have to enforce hours a day That would make far difficulties during business Well responded Council lor Aubrey Smith a Main St hardware merchant think we should look at being able to move them on during business hours as well Council decided to have its administration committee con- alder a new and stronger bylaw interest in forming poli tical clubs Some principals he said are under the Impression this is not allowed and ho asked mediately moved the letter be received and referred to staff Trustee John pro- thought we had a policy sponsor he said When some uncertainty was expressed Mr i a be found Mr drew his motion Trustee stated that the princi pals of secondary schools should he asked their views and Mr Chapman agreed that a draft policy should be circulated I dont know how far the board is prepared to go ob served Mr Chapman Arc yon prepared to have parlies who are not represented in Parlia ment such as the Communists Trustee Tom Johnston reac ted strongly to the suggestion We might end up with clubs permitting something con trary to our own laws he said What political party is against the law demanded Mr The Communist Party replied Mr Johnston Theres no law against the Communist Party said Mr NEWMARKET Although homeowners in I bills this year than they did last year most This is because last year the provincial governments off the amount of property tax bills homeowners school supporter assessed at in old Newmarket will I tax decrease this year not quite enough to offset the this homeowner must shell out This means Mr Average Homeowner in this area assuming ho is a public school supporter will pay in properly taxes in compared with last year If he is a separate school supporter lie is a little luckier Ills tax bill will drop by year he paid this year he will pay In summary for public school residential supporters taxes will go down In old Newmarket and in the former King Township portion up in the a portions formerly Separate school residential supporters in old Newmarket and East GwlUlmbury annexed area will have a decrease and those In the former King and Whitchurch portions of the town an increase Industrial and commercial property taxes for public school supporters will drop 381 mills to In old Newmarket and mills to mills in the King merged area in the merged area the rate will bo up 22 and in the Whitchurch merged tax rales for Newmarket RESIDENTIAL FARM PROPERTIES PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORTERS ARTISTS SURPRISE Two members of Art Trek the group of provincial government nil I liiifin ill Ill r In mi weeklong art classes recreation groups found their Newmarket students using their ruck as a canvass when they wore about to leave town for their next last week The three girls in the foreground pitching in to paint the truck arc Suzanne Ingot Jillian and Hennessey The artists wore in town to kick off Newmarket recreation departments summer arts and crafts program White photo Old Newmarket King Whitchurch 2375G 021 21009 Town librarian resigns Mrs Nina May Walsh chief li brarian of the Newmarket Pub lic library since last October could leave the town library la professionallytrained York state The resignation caught the library board at a time when three other staff members also leaving said board chair- Mrs Campbell A motion by Trustee Mar to table the letter resi lost Mr motion passed and a letter will be sent of tired and secretary- bookkeeper Mrs Campbell said she is concerned that if no one is found to take charge of the li brary and make up the payroll before July the library way the chairman Mon day We have no librarian ami the chief librarian is leaving inn in it Ice placement or arrange for temp orary management Board member Mrs Mildred Steele and board vicechairman John sit on the committee Mrs Campbell Is an Mr said Monday Old King 2503B Whitchurch 24753 01996 43436 48 388 INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES Old Newmarket East King Whitchurch PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORTERS 31233 468 24510 SEPARATE SCHOOL SUPPORTERS Old Newmarket 329 East 28432 KING TOWNSHIP Al most all heavy trucks on Class gravel roads have the legal right to exceed lbs un der a complicated section of the Highway Traffic Act York Re gional Police Chief Bruce Craw ford said this week His disclosure less than a week after King Council hid asked the province to en BRUCE CRAWFORD Chief Crawford told The Era he feels it would be unfair to concentrate enforcement on the as request- But after talking with more convinced than ever that the Class weight limits are virtually unenforceable of the 22000 lb lim it after complaints from East Gwillimbury Council and of the Highway Traffic Act Class B gravel roads are off limits for trucks whose weight But under another section the sets higher limits bas ed on the type of truck dis tance between axles number of tires and amount in square Inches of tread per tire As an example the chief described a typical truck with a single set of wheels on its front axle and two sets of tan dem wheels under its bed which could legally weigh 42000 plex set of regulations formu las charts and equations for use in computing whether a vehicle is carrying legal weight under the second section The chief said the first sec tion the lb limit will be abolished in 1975 according to Meat and potatoes Council received a big boost from York County school board in its effort to keep taxes down in this election year For the first time since loc al school boards merged into a county unit Newmarket has a single education mill rate This merger created a substantial lint urn tax reduction in New- market said Mr Steele The board takes half of each tax dollar collected by the town for public dropped mills in old rket and thai for supporters by In other areas East hit down 1 mills King merged down in line with the Road Needs Stud done last year but he said this is being done with out increase in the total tax Similarly creases in 1972 he said In fact said the budget chairman no new debentures were issued by the town during laid the budget chairman In 1968 commercial and industrial properties made up over per cent of the t Debate fizzles most trucks legal on roads last year these properties represented per- tstc NEWMARKET BUDGET page still have 100 tickets NEWMARKET A sure sign of affluent times must be Chief Crawford reiterated his intention not to enforce the Class limits unless ordered to do so by a higher authority He said some vehicles tick eted before he suspended en forcement might have carried legal loads under the second sec tion of the and indicated those tickets will likely be with One trucker in East received a ticket and fine for from York police 110 of its hundred buck tickets short or its goal Conse quently the club to build this The draws will be made the second Saturdav of every month July The club is also acieptim donations to its building fund