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The Newmarket Aurora Keswick Ml Wed THE ERA Serving York County Since DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTER lWiEJl0 J ALLAN MARTIN Phone Newmarket Charles St Phone Aurora PROFILE Depression sent Farr to work for municipality Lifeguard service for Georgina has miles of water front studded with public swimming areas and none of them are protected by lifeguards We cannot fault the municipal government for not providing a lifeguard service Georgina is a small rural township and obviously does not have the financial resources to do so The township has done the next best thing and provided an excellent water safety summer to date people drowned off Georgina shores but only one of them was a fulltime resident of the township These figures also show where the system breaks down Local residents simply arent on the beaches in great numbers during the same periods when the holiday crowds from the city are swimming Summer is the busy season in vacationland and few local residents have time to relax on the beach during the workday Those who do probably prefer not to fight the crowds of on the public beaches The onus for providing a lifeguard system Queens Park designated Georgina building provincial and conservation area park fishstocking and other programs has done much to encourage use of the lake as a holiday area You were awfully lucky you werent born then says Lindsay of Sharon as he recalls the Incredible days of the depression If I told you what people earned then you wouldnt dreadful Thirties comfortable brick home Sharon Temple and looks back over a full life of involvement in the community during the good for Lindsay Parr as in the late 1920s and all right he says I had it for 23 years But better take it As clerktreasurer he was responsible for guiding council attending all council meetings Yorks vacationland Last for the entire lasted throughout the thirties In he found Yet the Davis government has done little to himself working his fathers acre dairy farm managing a herd of 20 or more holsteins He was to stay down on the farm until and his family of three boys and one girl were born during those years During 1928 and anyone would do anything to make a few bucks he recalls We raised a few pigs 200pound pig development as a vacationland Provincial grants should be made available to to set up such a service on any water front area the local council deems necessary Keep those bands playing In Georgina next week they are going to honor their 24yearold drum and bugle corps by proclaiming Coachmen Week The move is not a hollow gesture A whole week of community events to raise money for the Coachmen has been planned including a Keswick bake sale a townshipwide tag day and a dance in the Sutton Arena In Newmarket the justlyfamous 100-year- old Citizens Band gave a concert Sunday evening at Wesley Brooks Conservation Area This concert town recreation department officials tell us is the forerunner of a series of band concerts planned throughout the balance of the The concerts will move from park to park playing a different park each weekend so that every segment of the town will have an op portunity to attend a concert in its own neigh borhood We think both these events are great and urge the public in the wo communities to sup port them fully The young Georgina band The Coachmen has already established an enviable record for itself in the tough interband competitions and The Newmarket Citizens Band as they say in show business needs no introduction The subject of an awardwinning National Film Board movie a couple of years ago the band is one of the oldest and best in the province Here in north York Region the graceful art of the Sunday band concert which reached its popularity peak in an earlier era when radio and TV were unknown continues to thrive would sell for four five dollars Potatoes brought 10 cents for a bag Ninety Can a person on that Lots of people just kept the potatoes and fed them to the pigs rather than sell them for nothing LINDSAY accepted gladly But people couldnt afford to pay their taxes then and I had to wait for the taxes to be paid before they paid me I was paid once every three months Mrs recalls that she had her hands full at the time managing a family of young all keeping the council on its budget Then came World War Victory Bonds were sold and there was money floating all over the country Throughout the forties things continued to gradually get a little better he says and good times slowly crept back By the 1950s drastically Mr continued as clerk- treasurer throughout this period of change By when he retired Lindsay had served forty years with the municipality When he started the population of the township was and he saw it grow to 15000 Mr Farr traces his family back to three brothers who came from England in and settled In Weston naming that town after their left the farm to run a general depression of hit him hard his customers couldnt pay so he gave the stuff away and in October packed all his furniture In a wagon and with one cow in tow headed for Sharon and the homestead where Lindsay was born Lindsay attended the one room school in Sharon Although the school still stands it has been expanded repeatedly and is now part of a room complex From there he went to Newmarket High until his father needed him on the farm He has seen farming methods change too Ram backbone into trustees end teachers demands I would like to comment on two letters which appeared In Mrs hit the nail on the head also when she wrote of the teachers making per sonal attacks on anyone THE Readers ERA there is a shortage of materials or for any other number of reasons pay my property lawyer Paul Montgomery and former York County commend both letter writers tor the intestinal make them better The supermarket In contrast a teacher teachers It is not going to clerk claim is a plain lie gets paid in sickness and axes to pay the eve improve the quality of Just ask any clerk how in health and until death increasing teachers that 1 paid for and the Pension I wonder if si teachers will come against old folks in is just going to cost and me more money Sure enough right tic it i reedy demands that did nothing is perfectly right The huge increase because the spring and the terminable soca laid off professional gutless plus extra fringe benefits shafting to the public predated The letter writ ith five years local supermarket and wage nt miill dike off Hit New math Abolish punishment Sinclair Stevens Apparently all death Should we rreclly believes lliat sentences in Canada capital Hilsliinenl i Canada lias become an some in iotil A l the potato crop and often picked Being roads superintendent and running a farm meant long hours for Lindsay His responsibilities included getting all the road work done that was scheduled for the year and yet staying within the budget He had to operate the snow plow keeping miles of roads open and In summer run the maintainor a piece of machinery now called a grader Grading often started at five in the morning and plowing frequently took all night As roads superintendent he saw that all ihe old wooden bridges in the township were replaced by concrete ones and had the work done by his own crew twothirds the amount it would have cost if tendered hut Theres four times the machinery now he says but at one time during Ihe worst of Ihe depression he had a group of over men working on roads I hey ere paid if cents ait hour but then Ihe ret received only 7aa year and a councillor per year As if this jtil pins tin dairy farm were not enough In 1937 Mi Ian was appointed relief Then wore a lot of people needing financial assistant then he says hut no relief office lie annual from house to house vaunt fund vouchers to the needy When he did manage an evening or Sunday at home in needy lunk of 11 locall on him For lliis job which he held until now and Lindsay keeps active handling all banking and payroll chores for him Since Ihe 1950s he and his wife have become globetrotters travelling with an agricultural- based group on tours all over Ihe world Hong Kong Japan Austria England Norway Sweden Denmark Hawaii Alaska and throughout the S In the past he managed Sharon ball team it was mostly hud hill in those and played quite a bit of baseball himself He was a curler and in the early days devoted seven years to the once famous Sharon Band Local history has alw is intended him and for a time the Parrs belonged to the York Pioneers the gioupwliieh restored tin Sharon At one point the lirr family owned tint is now part of the Temple grounds His involvement in the community has always been intense and two ago promp ted by a friend he ran for ihe amors job Hut I wassnmudundti it didn bother me a bit I did it in show 1 wasnt chicken Lindsay Pan has been a justm of tin pun since lib I and he Willi rale his year as a Mason Such a lifetime of involvement is of course marked by main ilont the way One of lliosc armed unannounced in the mail in it was Centennial Medal awarded to Lindsay for valuable service to the nation Teachers should stop pouting and use facts By ROY GREEN Three hearty cheers for Merna Colbourne former chairman of the York County Board of Education for her reasoned thoughtful letter which appeared on the editorial page of last weeks Era Mrs Colbourne lamented the fact that the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation sees fit to answer every teacher comment or letter to with a diatribe which is more personal and attackoriented than factual and reasoned the approach one most often expects from a profession like teaching A Newmarket lawyer Paul Montgomery recently voiced his opinion on teachers salaries in The Eras public opinion forum the Letters page and was subsequently attacked on two Strangely the respondents to Mr Mon tgomerys comments did not refute his facts or Opinions correct any misinformation he may aside from municipal provincial and federal have held or give reasoned arguments in op- politicians to put the brakes an Teachers as they are quick to point out are istantly downgraded and treated as And when citizens be they lawyers doctors or pretzelbangers complain or even express concern over the rising costs in publicsupported salaries they are treated to sniveling replies about how everyone else is employers and why shouldnt teachers keep up I suppose its logical to view with envy the labor contracts with fantastic salary increases that we read about every day That would I agree tend to make one desire to jump on the bandwagon even though this bandwagon the public horse and buggy is rather top heavy with greedy and thoughtless public employees It has to stop somewhere It may be unfair to ask the teachers to be the ones to begin the trend and their fees and an analogy was even drawn which suggested that the public pays lawyers just as it does teachers Thus lawyer Mont gomery shouldnt complain Such a comparison is ludicrous The public reverts to lawyers as they do merchants for a specific purpose Teachers who also provide a s such they are responsible to the public and thats why we have school boards that we elect Its an old system and until recently seemed to be working Still unofficial public relations depart ment the OSSTF felt compelled to reply with a j personal attack on Mr Montgomery as a lawyer Its all part of the new stance of the OSSTF I salaries and they have decided to use politics and pressure tactics to reach their goals secondclass citizens What better way to reverse the trend of public opinion than a reasonable and sane stance at the bargaining table People have a right to he concerned about the rising costs of public financed operations They have a right to comment and complain and thoughtful way if they are misinformed quite see the other side of things If the honestly feels it can justify its bargaining position on salaries spending ceilings pupilteacher ratios etc and wishes to reply to public inquiries let it do so And let the public see the logic the reasoning comments from pouting teachers And while were at it lets find out which school board trustees supported the latest contract agreement which to no ones surprise hailed as a exercise In peaceful negotiations public opinion What negotiation ITCH