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Era Newmarket Kwkk Wed THEERA Serving York County Since every Wednesday at Charte St Newmarket Ontario by Publishing Co Limited Subscriptions for rear fwf n calendar year Single copies each The Era the Inland Co Limited group of suburban newspapers which includes the AfavWTufbyPickerina News Ad vertiser Brampton Guardian Burlington Post Economist and Sun News- Beavtr This week and Tribune Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Second Class Malt registration number Phone Newmarket Charles St DAVID ft HASKELL r Publisher TERRY CARTER ROBERT MARTIN News Editor Phone Aurora RIBBON AWARD 1976 If you object to school tax increase say so now The news is out on York County Board of Educations budget Trustees are considering a spending forecast that will increase 1977 education mill rates 10 to per cent If you own a home assessed at that Compare tax bills Its that time of year again Town regional and educational officials are scurrying around preparing the statistics that will end up in a mill rate on our tax bills From Billie Hurley president of the York County Elementary Teachers Association of Federations comes a sobering thought Ottawa says Mrs Hurley has the jump on local municipalities While the municipal tax rate still has to be set the federal government is mailing its tax bills Mrs Hurley suggests a close look at those bills Note the whopping federal figure and then look at what our own municipalities are charging for services that we see daytoday in our own backyard In that perspective the municipal lax bite appears a mere pittance represents anywhere from to depending on the municipality in which you live Trustees havent completed their deliberations and thats where you come in Some taxpayers particularly parents of students will argue even mire a year isnt a major increase providing it will ensure a quality education system Other senior citizens and singles could easily fit into this category will charge that any to increase is a burden and should be avoided The time to present both arguments is now before the deed is done and before the postman delivers that shocking or pleasing tax bill to your home Call your school board trustee the board office at 7273141 will be happy to give you name and telephone number and ask where he stands on the budget Find out whats in it for you and the future generation of York Region Attend the three public budget sessions that have been scheduled Feb Feb and March to satisfy yourself that trustees are ensuring the best possible value for your education dollar Most importantly act now All ratepayers have the right to scrutinize and criticize the operations of their school board at budget time But its a right that should first be exercised while trustees still have the opportunity to respond to the wishes of he electorate To criticize the board only after the budget has been signed sealed and delivered borders on the irresponsible By ROY GREEN Scoops I hove known Protect our nonsmokers Someday ashtrays may go the way of spittoons To Until that time bylaws are needed to protect the right of nonsmokers to breathe clean air in public places such as stores theatres buses and government buildings Many places including the nations capital already have such regulatory bylaws bulmany more Newmarket and Aurora among them need them At the turn of the century sidewalks public vehicles and nearly everything else were splattered with spit Public spitting with or without spittoons was as common as smoking today But the spitting custom declined dramatically Before the end of the century public smoking may be another anachronism There are striking parallels between yesterdays antispitting campaign and todays campaign against public smoking then like smokers now spoke out loudly against illboard Supports spot check policy Spot checks are an excellent way to deploy men Mr is way off base They are a deterrent to impaired driving particularly but they are very effective in other important ways as police reports show Surely they are far more effective than the radar traps every driver has cursed What could be a greater waste of manpower than they Two big husky officers highly paid covering in an expensive cruiser on the chance that a speeder by is not the Sheldon Clark assistant headmaster at Pickering College will be the guest speaker at the Feb meeting of the Newmarket Historical Committee The meeting which not have an admission charge and is open to the public will be held in the auditorium of the St Friends Meeting House at pm Mr Clarks topic will be Quaker Education at Pickering College The next directors meeting of the Holland landing Mont Club will be held Sunday Feb at pm in the Community I ill The Maple Leaf Community School Advisory Committee will hold a meeting tonight Feb 16 at 8 pm in the schools library to discuss ideas for new programs Everyone is welcome Trie Newmarket Kinsmen Club will hold its Winter Carnival Dance Sat Feb 19 from 8 pm to am at the Optimist Hall on Dr Proceeds from the dance will go toward making the Winter Carnival on Feb 20 free A buffet live band and door prizes will be featured and tickets are a couple Tickets are available from Bob Hudson or Don Krueger Sundays carnival will be held at Fairy Lake from to pm and there will be no admission charge any infringement on constitutional right to spit But antispitting forces waged a relentless campaign emphasizing the repulsiveness of the habit as well as its health hazards Todays campaign to ban smoking in en closed public places is also based on aversion to smoke as well as health effects Secondhand smoke can raise the carbon monoxide levels in the blood of nonsmokers and cause distress to persons with heart and lung disease or sensitive eyes The final victory against spitting did not come all at once or even in one generation The campaign against public smoking is just getting fried Both municipalities have jg already taken the first steps toward joining Crawford tells me Newmarket last year banned smoking on town the fines those traps yield buses and Aurora council recently prohibited go right to Queens Park the weed during its council meetings rather than into York Its time now for the next step Ihe big one Regions treasury so time spent on them is on even greater waste For some reason spot checks seem to go over much better with drivers at the same time as they arc being far more effective They do much more for the police image than do radar traps I hope the Chief is allowing more discretion than Mr Twinney claims Regardless he should commend the Chief for the spot checks and press for shifting more men from radar to checks Safer roads and a greatly enhanced image for men in blue will he the result Keswick its anniversary Feb 20 Guest speaker during services at pm and 11 am will be Dr Mariano Gangi professor of pastoral studies at the Ontario Theological Seminary in Toronto A public meeting to hear input into the location of the proposed Township farmers market will beheld Feb 21 All those who have contacted the Chamber of Commerce regarding the proposal and any other interested in the project are welcome to attend A firm time and location has not an nounced The Newmarket Branch of the Canadian Legion is sponsoring its semimonthly euchre tournament Feb 19 from to pm Players may register from pm with a cost of per player The top three players will be awarded prizes of and 10 For more information call Stan Conners 8955481 Feb the Legion will hold its Valentine Dance The event is open to the public at a cost of per couple A buffet and spot prizes will be featured Music by Dale A lied Cross blood clinic will be held at the Newmarket Legion Hall Monday Feb 21 from 230 to pm sponsored by the legions Indies Auxiliary The ladies urge citizens to attend due to a shortage of blood supplies in the Newmarket area Newmarket Nursing Home will hold a coffee party Feb from 2 pm to pm The party is designed to recruit volunteers and ideas to assist the homes newlyformed residents association St Andrews Presbyterian Church will mark Happy Valley Square Dance Clubs monthly dance will be held Friday Feb at the Main St fireball Lunch is provided and all are welcome to attend the dance which gets underway at 9 pm Reader defends name As far as Mr Cord Wells letter in last weeks Era goes do not see anything wrong with the name Drunken In dian This person uses this name solely for his own onair use and nothing else There Is nothing racial about it There is a black who uses the handle Spear- chuckcr There is nothing racial about his name either except in the mind of very weak human beings Im a and the jokes Ive been hearing for the last five or six years should make Newfoundland start its own Civil War but I believe we are more superior than some who like to think they can cause trouble because of a name that doesnt agree with them Drunken Indian has had that name for several years now and until he wakes up some morning with his scalp in his hand I do not think he will change it Neither will I Bald Eagle nor will others such as Chubby Bunny Rabbit Patch Jungle Mouth Sugar Britches Golden Lady Whiskey Bill Cherokee Outlaw Renegade Jungle Bunny and In all of these names there are no attempts to ridicule anyone JIM STEVENS 26 Lome Ave Newmarket No prejudice hi reply to a letter in the paper today from Mr Gord Wells I would like you to print this letter to clear up the wrong im pression that he has as wcllaslhosche may have given to other readers all when we are born we are given names by our parents that wc use like them or not for the rest of our lives When are choosing our names for use on the CB there is a great deal of thought goes inlo the name as well as money to have our names on QSI cards to ex change with people all over Die world Secondly because someone chooses the name Drunken Indian docs not mean he is prejudiced against drunks Indians or Drunken Indians that Funky Chicken is prejudiced against chickens or that Jungle Mouth is prejudiced against people with bad breath people from the jungle or people with mouths Also it goes without saying that the Goofie Newfie is not prejudiced against people from Newfoundland He was born and raised there and and lived there until he came to Toronto We are all proud of the names wc have picked to identify out- selves I wish that people would look into matters a little more closely before they lake up space in the local papers with their opinions Had Mr Wells asked any CBer he would have found out Drunken Indians given name NANCY EDEN The Little Yellow Duck I am not prejudiced against little people yellow people or yellow ducks 1626 at Vics I would like to report to the readers of The Era thai Vics Skate Shar pening Day was a huge success raising a grand total of That is over goal would like to per sonally thank The Era for the advance publicity that we received and most of all to Vic Sheila Paraninfo who gave of time and revenue for whole day and their two daughters Marie and Peggy who helped during the day and to Bill Harris who assisted Vic in sharpening skates and Hank and Jamie Kuyt who kept the flow of skates running smoothly In addition Bob King drove around town ad vertising Ihc event with his loud speaker system which 1 am sure drew a lot of people store During the day and Jesse Harrison en tertained the patrons with harmonica and fiddle tunes A special thanks to the local businessmen There were many others Thank you all GEORGE MORRISON AND FAMILY Reply to Britton I wish to reply to Sid letter in last weeks Era Perhaps our erudite Mr is not as well informed as he always professes to be Although have always enjoyed his letters in the past often agreed with ilium he has not adequately studied the matter of Auroras 100 tax rebate Mr assumes that all pensioners over are fortunate enough to be still living with a spouse and therefore maintaining a home on lie overlooks all Ihe widowed pensioners trying to maintain the same property on half that amount My own mother a widow Is one of the many Aurora citizens who has benefitted from this tax rebate May Aurora continue to take these single senior citizens into consideration MRS SCHLECHTER Aurora Legalized pot urged Recently I read an article in the Toronto Globe Mail which I found very interesting For those who missed it it was about the parly for MPs on Parliament Hill Reporters sat around swapping jokes and smoking marijuana with a few unnamed elected members of parliament The attitude of this article shows that while hard drugs barbiturates and and who dropped amphetamines are not as into the store that day accepted as they were in This was the third year that Vic ami Sheila have given an entire day support of medical research for the Society the early marijuana continues to increase in popularity According to the national surveys done by the US Council on Drug views Their three years of Abuse in 30 million work has raised in Americans have tried 1976 724 marijuana once More being the total population of 256350 for Ihis we of Canada that year truly lhank you ALEX GSIM Americans they say are President It seems to me ridiculous that as several studies by the US government and one by the US Army not to mention our own Le Dam Commission on Drug Abuse have deduced marijuana to be a harm less drug both governments continue to let it remain uncontrolled as a black marked commodity This must bring an immense revenue to the Praise for YCH On Friday Jan 28 we were victims of a white- out and large traffic accident on near Bradford My wife was admitted treated at York County Hospital Our two children and myself were given ac commodation overnight underworld money Im in the some hospital sure is invested In the The staffs attention heroin and more and care could not have profitable trade been better if they were So as more people treating own family smoke marijuana A few names we organized crime grows remember were Dr richer Keyzer Mrs SIMON Mrs Wallace and Emily Newmarket Who says columnists for weekly papers dont get scoops or leaked confidential papers from inside secret sources Im sick and tired of people who laugh at weekly columnists who they say only write about their dogs kids supposedly funny things that happened at the church social and who only get angry when they write for motherhood the flag and the monarchy You never get any scoops they say like Pierre used to Or Morty Shulman or the Washington Post the New York Times I know what they mean Bernstein and Woodward exposed Richard Nixon and his cohorts They even wrote a book about it Then they wrote another book about what Nixon did in his last days including walking around the White House talking to paintings on the wall What scoops The RCMP it seems is always at the office of the Toronto Sun picking up some leaked papers Claire Hoy of the Sun exposed an plan to exploit the rent control plan in last Sundays Sun A plain white envelope left on his desk contained the information he says Shulman needs a file cabinet and a microfilm library to handle all his leaks and scoops The Pentagon Papers were exposed by a Boston newspaper The Toronto Star found Gerda Munsinger who was supposed to be the late The Globe and Mail has scoops almost every day and even Paul of the Sun gets supersonic scoops and leaks but he forgets them by the time he wakes up in the morning Weekly columnists get scoops and leaks all the time I have a drawer full of them I just havent gotten around to using them becuase I have a pile of columns about dogs kids motherhood the flag and a few funny things from the church social to do But angry as I am Im ready to spill the beans Get out your Royal Commissions Senate Inquiries probes investigations Alert the Region of York to get ready to roll some heads Hold a special meeting of Newmarket Council Here it comes down and dirty You dont believe me Watch Leaked Story Number IF NOMINATED I WONT STAND IF ELEC TED I WONT SERVE A speech written by Bob accepting the nomination for Chairman of York Region Sensational eh Forhans topsecret speech includes his plan to secede from the region when elected It is marked For My Eyes Only and was leaked to me by my operative No 68 who is a former Park Avenue garbage collector I also have from the same source every single campaign speech Forhan has written since Its true he hasnt had to use them but they are nothing less than explosive My source is now living under an assumed name at one of Newmarkets hotels on Main St How about this stuff eh My next item is so secret that Ive sent the original documents to a close friend with instructions to turn the details over to The Era if I die under suspicious cir cumstances or mysteriously disappear THE MEETING THAT NEVER WAS One morning I found a plain white envelope In my cubbyhole at The Era I dont have a desk It had already been opened but no one had seen the significance of the contents of that envelope It is a memo carrying the notation For Sober Eyes Only and it is the agenda for a top- secret meeting of a group known as EBA End Boozing Altogether The meeting was never held and my operatives are trying to find out why but the memo indicates that the meeting was to be held in a fish and chip store on Davis Dr just around the corner from the high school More to come TOMORROW THE STANLEY CUP Operative No who works at the arena was able to save this flaming hot document seconds before it was chewed up by the shredder the icescraper It will set the sports world on its ear On the envelope it says Jocks Eyes Only and Ihe contents are the incredibly secret plays Newmarket Flyers intend to use when they get into the playoffs The Russian hockey team and the Philadelphia Flyers have made some overtures me to obtain this information but Ive kept it secret until now THE WATERGATE or WATERRATE SCANDAL This incendiary information carries the label If you can read this youre too damn close and was obtained from operative No a former British intelligence agent It is galley proofs of an advertising cam paign that never got off the ground It urges people in Newmarket to make use of their water and sewage capabilities The ad captions read like this Drink Water The Fish Hardly Use It and Flushed wilh life Use Your Flush to Avoid a Full House This campaign for obvious reasons was never used Other hot scoops include a secret plan by York Region Police that is called An Alter native To Spot Checks and a document purloined from York County Hospital entitled Extra Beds How To Handle Our Expansion Nationally I have documents on the harp seal hunt which outline a massive advertising campaign offering one harp seal coat with every two Big Macs I wouldnt have revealed all this inside stuff if you hadnt pushed me into it Dont bother to subpoena me cause I wont reveal my sources Just toss me into jail In jail all the stuff I get for my columns will be inside stuff