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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), July 19, 1972, p. 1

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Firemen on wild goose chase miss inhalator call woman dies The black southbound and almost stopped when the smaller ito crossed ho median police sold Mr and Mrs r Thompson AURORA While Aurora firefighters were attending a bonfire they thought was a barn PROMOTED been promoted joined the newlyorganized tor Monday Staff bureau l fire a Murray Dr woman died on the way to Newmarkets York County Hospital Dead is Florence Pipe The alarm was turned in to the Aurora Fire Department by York Regional Police who re ceived a report of a barn fire on the 2nd Concession north of the King Sideroad Police investigated and fo und a was burning old him He had earlier obtained a fire permit Meanwhile the Aurora fire- fighters were on the way to the fire and arrived a few seconds after police left Back at the Aurora fireball telephone 11 A I Police arc investigating- York police crack down on newspaper box thefts THE Since NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY 1972 CENTS NEWMARKET York Re gional Police arc cracking down on hefts from newspaper honor One man was arrested and charged with theft in Newmar ket last week and three in Mark- ham the previous week laid following a police stakeout of The Eras honor bos in front of the post office at Main and Park Ave by Sgt Don Hil lock Three men char ged with art- Patrick Mark Kenned John Frederick Mar quis and John Stephen Gordon Ray of Ave Newmarket will Newmarket Provincial Court on a charge of theft to- Traffic light sought has asked the engineering depai Three die fin Sutton accident SUTTON Two York Re gional residents and an Isling ton man were killed here early Sunday morning In a grinding head on crash on a long curve Eon Highway Driver of a southbound pickup truck Albert Morris of and his passenger Barbara Miller of Sutton West and the driver of the MM ii I- jr iii of East Mall Islington were killed Ontario Provincial Police said both men were killed in while Miss Miller died l York County Hospital Police re still attempting to detcrm- the details of the accident believe it occurred in the southbound lane because most of the debris was found there Barn collapse kills Holt man HOLT An employee at Overholt farm here was killed Saturday in a freak accident I when a section of a barn floor collapsed on top of him York Regional Police said John Marshall was feeding ircli Mr Marshall was pronounced dead by Dr C S Bill of Mount Albeit The man died of Marshall leaves a wife and two daughters Karen and Barbara kills Mt Albert man and through a hole Child killed LANDING One Holland Landing child was kill and a second critically injur Monday when they ran out in Tammy Park died short- then transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children She is in sen- condition Police said the driver of car David George Ottawa had no chance to void the accident It occurred at the bottom of the hill on Sharon ltd just of Old St SPRAY SEWAGE FOR MT ALBERT proposal given cold shoulder MOUNT ALBERT A pro- unit subdivision with a spray irrigation system received a cool from village residents last week died by Before Bay tic lank tile beds the water Shi Hided village bus mess district would not be able to expand on a septic tank sys- Rolling also said the Ontario Water Resources Com- nt a sewage treatment plant to solve the villages problems liiijoinl ad a letter Officer Health Dr Owen The letter said wells majority regional health is showed per Rolling owning an 80foot lut year for years This Is obviously too for Mount Albert annul decided to lin estimate I her possibilities Mayor Roll ing told the meeting Tubs Ianuck spokesman for Itaurcst said his firm own ed or had under option about acres of land surrounding Mount Albert He said his firms mc ALBERT page Region delay for Metro waterfront plan ends WET LANDING NEWMARKET Metro To rontos 100 million waterfront redevelopment scheme shouldnt he delayed any longer because York Region objects to being I llanniiin aboard Paddy lakes the plunge into he wad lis off the horse during Olympic held there Friday pie equestrian team for he games in Munich later this help it last week Toronto and York to eliminate its Class B roads TORONTO A Mount Albert area man died in hospital here after he fell off the mi second storey of a house he was cumin building Class It Dead is Adolf Anderson of Yorks Cla Mount Albert TnD c Mr Anderson was working at house on the Elgin Mills Side road when lie stepped 1 York Re- last week on lie tin lonteiitioiis road issue in the region its engineer- that Garfield Wright and chief ad ministrative officer Jack Beltie be authorized to apply to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to have all re gional roads designated Class A highways except Elgin Mills Rd between St and Bat hurst St Elgin Mills was left out be cause it is already covered by a separate bylaw At present all gravel roads in the regional system are Class roads anil therefore subject In a lb weight restriction the committee report said Tin- jr II- ml Mil is currently being en forced by police enforcement was baited last week until the situation could be clarified and pointed out dump trucks ml I l i i i i I in i types till vehicles ire being hampered In fact about two weeks ago of dollars worth of in York Ileum gro to a hall because truck own grounded their eludes in Hie regions residents will re ceive very little benefit from the i 11 i- spend the money ac- I it- Sim I III by Councillor Dick of Aurora that the regions as for the in f Ia might be Plain clothes police patrol parks Councillor Buy Twiniu guards patrol j check vandalism i May voted to ap peal the assessment to the On tario Board but it ifler a heated debate Wednesday to withdraw ihe when learned the On tario cabinet was withholding approval of the York left off Ontarios domed stadium group A joint provincial municipal govern- for a giant TorontoCentred Re gion sports and recreation com plex possibly Including a dom ed stadium has been formed but York Region has been left mil of a high Ontario govern- last week I Indicated t Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs said in a letter tabled last week the region expressed its wish to participate too late York Region council wrote the ministry about the possibility iif lixitutg i site in Richmond Hill ing set up to study lie said he wrote in asking for representation committee and had reply from Premier Williai t of Ihe Toronto- Centred Region we should be on lint committee Conn Bob of New mar ket Mr proposed that York Region immediately re quest representation on that lomtiitlkc and council voted unanimously for the motion Mr lllingworth and New- the appeal Mr charged the If we lie down now to this blackmail a precedent Ho Councillor Don of Richmond Hill made most telling points for dropping the appeal He suggested an appeal been taken out If we start throwing more spokes into the and more roadblocks at servicing schemes well be the losers he warned They have a bigger stick and we need their coop he said referring to both the conservation authority and Metro Toronto Mr said and Richmond Hill need Metro water and sewers now and said he wouldnt like to be in the shoes of a may or of one of those three towns if York Region continues to hold up the waterfront scheme Mr Forhan suggested Metro nearly always has a big stick He maintained this was one oc casion when York Region had a stick and ho urged council to continue the appeal so it could use it as a negotiating tool Councillors wont OK EG spray plant now Gladys Rolling that York Region- Council gie to locating a pilot spray irrigation in her township was turned down by the council last week Instead councillors voted to send the proposal to build the pilot project which disposes sewage from homes by it and spraying it over fields to their engineering and planning committees for further The council did however agree that if the committees re turn favorable recommendations on the spray sewage system East will be given first consideration when a loca tion is being selected It approv ed in principal the East limbury request Gwillimbury tiating based project in Mount Albert and a scheme Holland Landing It is the as a test for new sewage disposal system Councillor Dick Aurora raised the first to council giving where the system might be used he said advocating that the engineering committee be see REGION TO STUDY Press for new rail line Council passed a resolution to thai effect Monday night and id copies to York Regie A new spur line would be needed to make it possible for one train serve alt three Yoric At present Richmond

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