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members of family from Oak Ridges River Drive Park drown of an Oak St home e are mute testimony to a accident which took lives of one of this commit families And in Oak Ridges two dogs were alone at house waiting for the urn of their masters Nine members of the Con- family s waters night Two others managed to the ordeal after 12 people out in a 14foot aluminum it to an uninhabited island a weeks camping The underpowered over- craft contained camping Park Eugene and their three child ren Karen Michael and 3 were all drowned Two members of the Oak Ridges Contois family the mother Claudia and daughter Monica survived But the father Richard Martin An thony and Sheila Ryan wore dead The Contois family of River Drive Park described as good neighbors set out on Sunday with relatives for the weeklong holiday They used Eugenes boat a boat in which he had taken the family on many tines be fore on the placid waters of the Holland River The boat believed to been powered by a 514 or 7 horsepower motor was kept at the Contois Oak St home They jet out from Midland to Snake Island about miles away at nightfall There was a slight breeze blowing making the normally calm waters choppy About half way to the des tination water began coming into the Monica Contois 10 and her mother Claudia were the only Mrs Contois a nonswim mer somehow managed to reach shore She carried her She stumbled Into a cottage Future of Keswicks private water system remains uncertain By DON BERNARD Era Staff Reporter KESWICK Cord Clark furrowed his brow In talked about the future of his water system that serves s wick and is reputed to be the largest private water sy In Canada from the fact that coming to Keswick in the next two ycais at y much a question mark at the preset One thing seems assured His system his father will remain in ills position r eloped after World least another despite the fact that an Environment Ministry substandard plan for Keswick area Is to supply north of the Jersey River system over the next years Mr Clark feels that his system has become so large that the provincial govern ment does not know quite what to do with it The water Township merely the Clark system will be kept operational GORD CLARK District Engineer for the Ministry of the Environment George told The Era the Clark system is substand- according to municipal standards problem complaints from people was una operation for another I the Clark system would Ho added that the Ministry of the Environment could take over parts of the system t are up to municipal standards ie that have mains He added that limited connections would be allowed the Clark system but no major Brian Hogarth Civil Technologist for the Project Branch of the Ministry of the Environment said the Clark System is adequate for the next years and that it was not necessary replace It The Project branch Is the arm of the Ministry responsible for designing and building the new water system on behalf He added that the cost would be very high lo put in municipal system in the south The system itself grew up out of a post war need for a water system to serve cottages in the Miami Beach area James Clark father felt that the collages would be worth more if Beach and installed above the ground water lines The agreement with the cottagers involved a supply of water from Victoria Day lo Thanksgiving Mr Clark was also a builder In the midfifties permanent residents began to move into the area and the lines were put underground Up to that point the system with the Iwo wells drilled near Tampa 3 lake served me and Drive In Clark charged residents and for In I960 the price i residents north of Miami Reach in their cottages After an Ontario Health Unit study it started to request Clark I Water Resources Comr decided that residents of Dr and Beach area were in dire need of a potable water supply went ic or municipal Mr Clark be a 50000 loan from the Industrial Development Rank and a further 30000 raised through canvassing for payment Mr Clark extended his system to almost its present then Pleasant Blvd Wynhursl Dr and have been added i to In he voir at the corner of Beverley IslesYoungs I drilled another well Adeline and to I Harbor area Now Ihc Clark Water Syslom serves 450 homes and establishments and also Jersey Public cost is per year for a permanent resident and for Commercial rates vary See CLARK WATER page seasonal people Commercial owned by Mr and Mrs Celestin about am My babies are out there Mrs Contois repeated over and The little girl tread water with the aid of for nearly two hours before she picked up by a passing bed for the remainder of the night Only one body that of Mrs Patricia Contois of River Drive Park has been recovered The search Is continuing are trying to determine why The overloaded boat was launched without being stopped An experienced boat own er would take the craft Into the water under such conditions There were no life jackets know what caused the largest cruiser in the s This encounter was only by chance because the boat turned off Its motors to free a dingy rope which had fouled the pro pellers Passengers In the cruiser heard Monicas cries for help and took her aboard The two survivors were ul timately taken to Midland hos pital where they were treated Little immediate hope held for the recovery of the bo dies until the sunken boat is found The accident occurred in about feet of water Eugene of River Drive Park worked as a in Au rora His wife Patricia formerly I parttime at the nearby Raid nets hot property raided a farm hoi si- near here last week and seized a large quantity of stolen properly Police said the goods had boon stolon in the Metro area The value may reach The Items included underwear canned goods and about light A truck was required to transport the property to of Mount Albert a mother I nf ul and Iihl with possession of stolen pro- Since NEWMARKETAURORAKESW1CK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY 26 CENTS Striking Hydro workers block return of Newmarket 6 refuse afterstorm aid NEWMARKET An attempt by six employees of Ontario Hydros office to cross a picket line there nearly erupted Into violence Friday morning Saturday night striking Hydro workers refused a management request help repair damage done by a storm in the SuttonKeswick area which management claimed left homes without power and so was an emergency In the Mulock Incident a striker was injured by a truck attempting to force ils way through the picket line and nine tires on cars being driven by management personnel were flattened About strikers mostly from Toronto were picketing the Hydros regional office on Dr Friday because man agement had coaxed six girl employees who are working for Hydro as part of the Canada Manpower Training on the Job New area union steward for of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Threequarters of the sal aries of people participating in this program arc paid by the break our strike with fe deral funds charged the union thought i Debbies collecting again NEWMARKET Newmar kets onegal ant i pollution club Debbie will be collecting old newspapers again this weekend The pretty Newmarket High School student filled York Sanitation Co garbage truck bins during her last weekend children entertained parents with skits games and songs around the top photo A total of stayed for thenight In bottom photo Tim Snell 8 left Karen Robbie White photos rentals and Judy Hunt 10 help councillor Ed Bennett put up a deal for The girls arrived in a cab but the driver refused cross the picket line The girls picket line Management spokesman Charles Macintosh said the girls homes were later picketed and tried to bring them Ice man NEWMARKET Cooler times are coming Ice be in Newmarket arena by Sept it was an nounced his week The arena is booked from that date to the end of October far hockey schools a Junior training camp and for private i June and hopes better this time the papers to Toronto to sell Last time she made a profit on the sale all the money goes for antipollution few friends will be i duty at the bin most of the weekend She hopes people will bring old newspapers card board and softcovered books for recycling Maybe Ill try collecting glass one weekend in the fall she said Anyone wishing to have their papers picked up on chief surgeon Dr lorlimer last week performed a four hour opera attach her mangled loft arm Hospital officials said Tues- daj morning the womans con dition remained satisfactory still functioning Police want Playboy off stands NEWMARKET York region storekeepers have been asked to remove the August Issue of Playboy magazine from sale because police feel It contains an undue exploitation of The offensive portion of the magazine is a threepage spread on the movie Boxcar Bertha Police said most storekeepers have complied with heir request slightly and there was blood circulation However they said it was still too early to de termine if the operation was a complete success Hospital Administrator Al Roeder said Mrs Phillis Moore a mother of five children was admitted to the emergency ward with her arm hanging by bit The had been seriously injured In a single car accident on High way 48 at the Sutton curve Mr said doctors be lieved at first the arm was com pletely severed above the elbow but it was found that one nerve and one blood vessel were still connected The emergency operation started at 11 pm and commit ed until after am Dr assisted by Sam nursing staff and four orderlies Several hours after the deli cate operation Mrs Moore had some in her fingers and hand Mr said it was the first time he could remember such an operation performed and shock Oak Ridges said Mr Moore lost control of his car on the curve slammed into a light standard went down an embankment rolled over and landed on its hood from the road near a farmers field Mrs Moore was thrown through the windshield in the crash- Moore was later charged with careless driving Inquest to probe Preston death VANDORF An inquest will be held into the death of a Toronto man who drowned in Preston Lake south of here on Sunday Police estimated there were 5000 people at the lake at the time of the death There was one lifeguard on duty police said- Dead is Giovanni Cicero 18 of Winona Dr who was at the lake with his parents Police said the huge crowd hampered rescue operations and the movement of the ambulance