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THE ERA NO NEWMARKETS NEWMARKET AURORA- KESWICK ONTARIO OCTOBER Town hydro fighting bid to stick homes on rate hike NEWMARKET Ontario Hydro wants the largest portion of the 25 per cent power price increase it plans for Jan 1 passed on to residential users in Newmarket The towns utility commission is taking its fight against this recommendation to Ontario Energy Minister Dennis Mayor Bob a member of the municipal hydro board told council Monday night the local utility com missioners have requested a meeting with Mr because Ontario Hydro do not sufficiently support the residential the local datio weighted to support industry big business Ontario Hydro functions as the power wholesaler in Ontario selling hydro to local utilities But when Ontario Hydro in creases its wholesale rate it can also decree how the increase will be passed on to the local utilitys customers The way this works the mayor said is that the provincial board makes a counter recommendation and Ontario Hydro then makes a com promise proposal upon which negotiations out This year he said the provincial bodys second proposal was very close to its first and didnt take into ac count the local boards objection to residential users being forced to pay the bulk of the 25 per cent Instead of buckling under the Newmarket commission has demanded to be able to take Us case to the energy minister We feel that with the in crease Ontario Hydro has given us we could hold the cost of carried hydro even though we have a per cent wholesale increase to an average of 15 per cent within the town said Mr He said the 15 per cent average would not reflect a 20 said these figures were used a an example and are not the actual figures in dispute If tnere is to be an increase it should be 15 per cent a I 00 gallons of gasoline pumped into water supply mistakenly poured into about 103 Homes west of a lino through and St were affected and so was Grcenacres Home for the Aged York Manor Care Nursing Home on George St Upper Canada Mall also received the polluted water Town works superintendent Fred Evans said although the wit it system is a regional responsibility both town and regional engineering depart ment crews Newmarket firemen and some contractors worked all night to pump and probably the Tender Loving bleed the contaminated water Hospital addition not ready opening cancelled will approve funding he said At that time a program will be developed staff hired and operation at the Yonge St well at the corner of Ave Town pressure had been low all week as York Region main tenance crews closed down one well after another for main tenance When they closed down the big St well they brought in an auxiliary gasoline- driven pump so water could continue to be fed into the ordered Outside the pump house three pipes a two- inch gasoline pipe a fourinch mm leading to the well and off c side the breather pipe for Toronto Nationals Paul Bates in top photo is restrained by a Nats trainer during an ugly brawl at Newmarket Community Arena Thursday following the teams tie with Newmarket Flyers The Toronto players accused timekeeper Dick players of both teams and fans continued off the Ice and police were culled Nats coach Kick Thompson received a gross misconduct penalty at the end of the game In lower photo fans and players jam the hallway between dressing rooms For a full report on the game Mail factory to be built here by 1 978 NEWMARKET The federal government plans to build a factorystyle mail processing plant in this area by mid1978 to take pressure off overtaxed post office facilities in Newmarket and Aurora The project is in the plan ning stages and no location for the plant has been determined according to Secor area manager for the Post Office Department located outside the urban area of the two towns Mr Secor said in a telephone interview from his office on Monday We dont want to have our big transport trailers going However the plant will be through the main street of either Stevens party spreads to three halls NEWMARKET Reports that MP Sinclair Stevens will announce his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party at a constituency rally here Friday night have created such a demand for tickets that organizers have been forced to book the three biggest halls in town The rally was originally planned for the Newmarket and the Newmarket Legion halls Organizer Ted estimates over 2000 people will attend and predicts it will be the largest political rally ever held in Newmarket vention and said he expected to formally declare his candidacy at the Friday night rally He has represented Simcoe In the House of Com would seek the party Community Centre but now will leadership at the Feb financial critic for the Op- Organizers of the threehall rally plan to have Mr Stevens address the crowds in each hall and have arranged a system of rotating entertainment community and we dont want to disturb the front wicket service we have now he said This will be strictly a processing plant and will not involve the daytoday operation of the general public The Aurora post office has I is in in ijriliiiiii centre for more than a year and is far too small for the job Mr Secor said Newmarkets post office Newmarket and Aurora It will be a factorystyle Lieutenant Governor Pauline McGibbon Late Monday the opening was postponed until sometime early in December Hospital administrator Al Boeders office said con struction lias been delayed by slow deliveries of materials to contractors The contractors just arent going to make it said the Earlier this week Mr had told The Era that although the new addition Watson Therapeutic Swimming Pool would be finished on time no provincial grants had been approved by Queens Park for its programs staff or staff training We cant develop a pool program until we know what resources well have hospital administrator Al Roeder said Thursday in an Era interview Although Mr said CN refuses to help out on Holland diversion NEWMARKET- Canadian Niiti d Hallway officials have refused to cooperate in the learned at town council Monday Council was considering a plan to divert the river across the municipal parking lot be tween Water and Timothy Streets either through a culvert or an open ditch The project would improve the rivers carrying capacity during flood times and would relieve erosion problems around the Health since early this year he has received no funding guidelines for the of 1975 and 1976 The facilities must be completed before the ministry Goodfellow arrested was in court Tuesday NEWMARKET Ronald of 3 Newmarket was arrested on a bench warrant last week for failing to appear in court on a charge of cruelty to animals A Two provincial Environment and Trans portation and Com have offered to discuss grants on their portions of the project but the railroad refused to spend any money at Its Timothy St bridge and level crossing The alternative left for the council to consider said Mayor Rob is a shorter diversion route ending at the existing railway bridge Consulting engineer Ivan lAtrnnt was asked last week by council to prepare a list of alternatives and the subsidies available and to show the net cost to the town of each These will be discussed at a meeting trucker didnt see the breather assumed the four and two inch pipes were filter and breather and poured gas Into the larger pipe feeding it directly into the well Workers quickly discovered he mistake and shut off valves between the Yonge St water system and the rest of town thus isolating the gas in that section of town They then managed to pump much of the gas directly from the well but some had already been pumped into the system Crews spent the night bleeding fire hydrants and other outlets dumping thousands of gallons of the precious water Newmarket could illafford to lose down the ditches Sound trucks began broadcasting warnings in ho area at am and residents were told not to use their water Tuesday York County Hospital reported no cases of illness due to the gasoline Tuesday morn ing School executives mad pay package approved Oct 4 Sania coming but he needs more money NEWMARKET Santa Is coming to own Nov and the organizing the Santa parade needs money according to Allan Tough chairman of the member Newmarket Santa Parade Committee The parade will start a oneday delay in Trustees accepted The board will ask the federal Prices and Income Review Hoard for exemption from the salary guidelines 85 lots approved NEWMARKET Eighty- five lots on the final 13 acres of tingle family home residential in Schickendanz Development Ltd Quaker Hill subdivision were approved by town council Monday when it at Quaker Hill ratified a subdivision agreement with the firm The developer still holds a parcel of Yonge St frontage on which it plans to eventually Another source said the increase over that proposed and accepted by trustees and the Affected employees include administrators in the middle management and senior staff bracket whose raises were first proposed in August but were not approved pending committee study White senior ad ministrators including education director Sam Chapman would have received a 165 per cent interim increase under a proposal approved during the boards committee session Oct 14 the increases wilt now be restricted to 10 per due for increases ranging from 16 per cent at the minimum salary level to i9s per cent at the maximum level The persons in the middle management category will also be limited to per cent or from an ad hoc committee formed to examine the proposal The committee recom mendations were brought in Oct the day following imposition the director and his top aides were set in September board personnel officer Ted Smart said Monday Up to two years ago staff in the midmanagement category received salary adjustments in January he added restructuring salary ad- September of this year Mr Smart said Sept 1 had been the un derstanding he explained The employees disap pointment does not rest as much The committee decision he said had been made some days before the Oct 14 meeting HMO Huron Heights Secondary Schools top grade student last year delivered the valedictorian address Friday night at the schools com mencement For a report and list of award win ners see page How much will Newmarket cable TV subscribers be af fected If Buffalos three television stations are allowed to jam their signals coming Into Canada Very little says columnist Roy Green See