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Teachers reject salary offer Resignations due Friday Pay demands could hike pupilteacher ratio Jolliffe AURORA The pupil- ratio in Yorks secon dary school classrooms will soar higher if the York County Board of Education is forced to in crease salary proposals to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation trustee Ross Jolliffe said Monday night The warning came at a school board meeting the trustees negotiating team in tensified its campaign to head off mass resignations by an undetermined number of the regions 860 high school teachers Friday is the final day resignations can legally be handed to the board They would take effect Jan 1 if submitted The board however has said it would not hold teachers to the Nov 30 deadline Were fighting to keep the pupilteacher ratio the way it is now Mr Jolliffe said He claimed the board couldnt even consider a pupil- teacher ratio identical to that of Metropolitan Toronto since it would result in a salary increase six per cent higher than the per cent already contained in the boards latest offer to teachers The boards proposal was presented during a negotiating session last Tuesday night and rejected by a vote at a mass teachers meeting in Newmarket Wednesday af- ternoon On Wednesday night the negotiating teams met again and almost im mediately officials went into a onehour caucus They returned with a pencilled counteroffer which Mr on Monday called basically the Metro salary offer Mr Jolliffe said any at tempt by York to match the could possibly stay in business and match those figures he said explaining that provincial spending limits for Metro boards are higher by per pupil than in York In its strongest public statement to date the board condemned the entry of the provincial office into the negotiations Pressed by Newmarket trustee Craig about apparent conflicts in priorities at various stages of the negotiations Mr said the entry of the provincial team started a whole new ball Their provincial priorities are not our teachers priorities Mr Jolliffe said Earlier he had said Were dealing with a group OSSTF whose primary concern is not the students He accused the provincial team of juggling agendas so we dont seem to be getting anything very concrete discussed at these meetings His comments came less than a week after a negotiating session that became part of a bitter controversy centred on a mass teachers meeting at Newmarkets Odeon Theatre last Wednesday In a negotiating session the night before the mass rally board bargaining chairman John Honsberger tabled a new salary package The proposed grid covered two years and provided for a total per cent Increase Mr Honsberger said That increase represents the actual boost in Mr Honsberger said teachers could either consider the entire package or the first- year section as a oneyear package Although there were questions from the floor on the secondyear figures at the mass meeting the team dismissed the second part of the spokesman Jim Bethune later told The Era the boards proposal for a second year had only been tentative and as such was not firm and see TEACHERS page Distrust prevails over negotiations ByJOHNLOTT and BOB MARTIN Era Stan Writers AURORA An atmosphere of distrust and animosity prevails on both sides of the current contract dispute bet ween secondary school teachers and York County Board of Education Prospects for a wholesale shutdown of secondary schools on Jan are growing each day When the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation was activated as the teachers official bargaining agent public statements on the negotiations were to be by Joint press release It didnt work Both have issued frequent statements on a unilateral basis Each side Aurora Blood donors clinic Monday AURORA A Red Cross blood donors clinic will be held Monday from 9 m in Aurora United Church The Rotary Club of Aurora AURORAKESWICKNEWMARKET ONTARIO NOVEMBER The board has sent out position papers and two letters to teachers at a press run of about 1000 apiece District leaders are supposed to media but the local representatives are talking long and bitterly always prefacing their remarks with the plea that they remain anonymous It boils down crisis The teachers appear ready to take a A series of Era interviews Industrial complex planned on another Yonge St farm AURORA A large Toronto building firm is now preparing plans for a major industrial and commercial complex on a IBS- acre farm site on Yonge St South The farm recently pur chased by Alliance Building sides indicates that issue corporation lies immediately and if locations as Milton Oakvllle Orangeville and Mr Kerr said He is now negotiating tor a parcel in Newmarket he said but declined to identify the location because the deal Is not closed Alliance also builds homes Pit to get licence KING TOWNSHIP Sand and Gravel will be issued a licence to expand Its King Township gravel pits In the near future a provincial official told The Era Monday Despite residents protests there Is no legislation to prohibit the of permit to the company said Foster of the Ministry of Natural Resources if the licence has been Issued he replied Not yet but be shortly Meanwhile township council has taken steps to limit loads and speeds on roads used by gravel tracks See details Page 5 Citizens demand beat patrols chief NEWMARKET Seventy- three per cent of those in terviewed in a recent York Regional Police survey believe there is a loitering problem on Newmarkets Main St And 63 per cent told police theyd like to have an officer walking the beat in the down- Chief Bruce Crawford submitted the report to the regions police commission last week in response to a petition Residents to protest widening of Bathurst St by resident Watson at the Oct meeting Mr submission A petition to halt loitering on the Main St was signed by residents Citizens are disturbed by young people who obstruct and insult them on the sidewalk Mr Sweezie told the commission at that time The chiefs report contained committed on Main St between Oct 24 and Nov 19 It also categorized comments from police interviews with of the petitioners While persons said they satisfied with the policing south of the Jack Wood farm which Aurora Council Is buying for an industrial park Council at one time was interested in purchasing both farms to develop an industrial park that would encompass more than 350 Alliances preliminary plans could accomplish the same goal A company official told The Era this week that he enviBions office buildings and satellite commercial businesses on the St frontage with light industry to the east In proximity to the railway tracks The farm stretches from Yonge on the west to Bayvlew on he east and Alliance will likely propose estate lots for the eastern portion of the site said company vicepresident John Kerr Mr Kerr said he thought the farm could be developed Jointly with the towns holdings to the north Alliance officials and town council have had some preliminary discussions and the company has hired a planning consultant to prepare a land use plan he said Alliance constructs in dustrial buildings on spec then seeks a tenant to rent or purchase Mr Kerr said the Aurora site it may propose a said Meanwhile town council is still awaiting approval from the Ontario Municipal Board on its proposal to debenture million for purchase of the Wood farm The towns option expires Friday but Clerk Administrator KB Rodger said last week that the option will be extended If necessary He said he is confident the OMB will give its blessing to the transaction The town is believed close to finalizing an agreement with House of Furniture Ltd to bring a major furniture manufacturing factory to the industrial park Mr Rodger said the deal has still not been settled for the factory which would start with a 50000 ft building and employ a minimum of Concerned Citizens get zoning preview KING TOWNSHIP While the general public has yet to see the draft of King We build a building on spec and then attract an industry As soon as we get a plan we build a building Alliance has built in dustrial multiples In such prehensive zoning bylaw the Concerned Citizens of King Township ratepayers group has revealed last week The proposed bylaw which would provide supportive legislation to the townships official plan Is still being reviewed by township council Last week over strenuous ob jections from Councillor Ben Rough council refused to take the bylaw to public meetings studying the proposed bylaw for some time The committee chaired by Dr Sidney Soames has studied the first draft in If anyone would like to do a really detailed study Ill be happy to pass the papers about an inch thick over to them Col Parker said Mayor Margaret Brilnell widening of St will be held tomorrow night at In the old Temperancevllle Public School A King committee headed by Bob Sificox and John Mor ning called the meeting and they frankly expect to see a consensus of opposition to the plan Im assuming most people dont want a fourlane high way Mr Sillcox told last weeks meeting of the Con- He he knows affected residents are opposed to any change of St north of Aurora Sideroad What happens there on Is bound to happen again on warned Mr is a problem and that patrol officer should be assigned to the Main St Fortyeight persons com plained of loitering and urged police to assign a regular beat patrol officer to Main St Chief Crawford said the demand for a policeman on the beat will have to be considered by the commission when dealing with future budgetary proposals Commission see FOOT PATROLS page 2 HES EASILY SPOTTED visit the Aurora shelter twice on the same day last week to ball out her family pet The Dalmatlon Snapper had escaped his moorings and eventually wound up In the pound before his red- spots Just because they happen to belong to a mayor as Ktags Margaret Brltaeu discovered Mayor who has been vocal In her criticism of the Ontario Humane Societys canine control measures had to lime he was picked up from concerned groups for the zoning bylaw She said council has tried to ac commodate such groups but the township only one copy mine out she said Its promised next to the York County Federation of Agriculture The copies are very thick and very expensive the mayor for public view prior to public meetings Mayor Brltnell said Council in committee last night to have taken a vote on the matter of nubile meetings on the zoning bylaw but the matter was deferred until next Monday Last week a majority of council indicated It was not prepared to present the bylaw to the pub1c Councillor Bill Long Kings planning committee chairman answers an Era editorial and tells why council has not gone public with the proposed legislation See details on Page move up to deputy chief onehalf mile north of King Rd on the east aids of Mr SUlcox described It as an organizational mooting to plan A game NEWMARKET of musical chairs i way In the York Regional Police administration Is expected to end next week when Chief Bruce Crawford submits a recom mendation for a new deputy chief In charge of operations BUI deputy chief In charge of administration has submitted Ml ef fective Doc to take a new Job Until his resignation Mr has switched to Mr Hoods old Job In operatic That leaves one deputy chiefs Job open when Mr leaves There speculation that the operations Job will go to Harknesa staff inspector In charge of detectives Imp Harknesa until recently was acting com manding officer of Is Division which Includes Newmarket Aurora King East- and Whitchurch Inspector Leslie former King police chief la the new divisional commander Inspector Clare Penrose former Newmarket sergeant has filled Insp former position 29 Division commander In an area en compassing the former Vaughan Township Chief Crawford said last weak he will submit a recom mendation on a new deputy chief to the Dec police commission meeting See earlier story Page fascination The calendars sold for up Cole photo Even auctioneer surprised at bids for estate items VICTORIA SQUARE Even the auctioneer was sur prised at some of the prices bid here Friday night for and earlier furniture and memorabilia from a large old Newmarket home Auctioneer Reg Johnson of Sunderland who with his partner and son Larry knocked down the estate of the late Walter Ross of Yonge St Friday before a shoulder-to- shoulder crowd In the community hall here said it was the largest sate he has seen this year and hes seen 130 of them Mr farmed on Don Mills Rd east of before retiring to a large red brick home on the east side of Yonge St about half a mile north of Davis Dr a few years ago One old black cook stove went for said Mr Johnson and hed never before sold one for more than Another sold for Nine Ontario Jockey Club wall calendars dating through each Other calendars sold for up to apiece Mr Johnson said he had never seen calendars sell like that before A three Inch thick ornate curtain rod which used to hang at the top of the stairs In the Travlss home brought and a small bundle of ordinary curtain rods Inexplicably sold for Yet Bald Mr Johnson despite the surprisingly high price paid for many or the Items some of the bigger pieces which were expected to be big drawing cards didnt go so well A rare round iron box stove with nickel trim mica and mica around the top of the ire box and a baking a solid cherry dropleaf dining room table a fourfoot high wall clock a pine sideboard with carved lion heads and wooden pulls woven bedspreads up to a porcelain spittoon 25 coal oil lamps glass gobletr each an antique Mr Johnson apple peelers seldom sell for