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111977 THEERA York County Since t Charles St- Ontario by Publishing Co Limited for two years for one year Single copies each Aurora Ere is one of the Inland Co Limited flrovs of suburban news papers the News Ad vertiser Brampton Guardian Burlington Gazette Economist and Sun MtaafsMug News Beaver This Stout Tribune Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Second Class Mail registration number iwa Charles St DAVID ft HASKELL Publisher TERRY CARTER EditorinChief ROBERT MARTIN News Editor f Phone Aurora BLUE RIBBON AWARD Minister oiled the works wheels of bureaucracy often turn slowly until the right person applies a little oil The oiler at last weeks meeting at York County Hospital which resulted in the hospital being allowed to open 36 more badlyneeded beds was Bill Newman for Durham York and Minister of Food and Agriculture in the last Legislature the hospital had been quietly lobbying for the beds since last fall when it became apparent that the 307 beds the health ministry had allowed it to activate out of its potential werent enough to meet the need The effort culminated in the meeting last week May 2 attended by hospital staff and board members Mr Newman part of Durham York is served by the hospital Bill Hodgson member for York North in the last Legislature health minister Dennis Timbrel and ministry officials Discussions had been going on and getting nowhere for an hour when Mr Newman arrived late He wasnt there more than a few minutes before he passed a note to Mayor Bob a hospital board member asking exactly how many more beds the hospital needed The mayor told him forty Newman then had a few words with a health ministry official and the deed was done The hospital board accepted the ministrys proposal that in return for new beds chronic care and acute care beds the hospital would accept 20 chronic care patients from Stouffvilles Brier Bush Hospital which is closing Ontario election is necessary Just months ago Ontario voters elected 52 Progressive Conservatives 38 New Democrats and Liberals This meant the province was being governed by a minority government for the first time in years In about five weeks the voters will go to the polls again And there are some say that this election is not necessary Bui what they forget is that Rene Parti Quebecois was elected in our neighboring province between the last election and this Mr Levesque has no intentions of being a good neighbor and in fact wants to build a wall around his province and separate from the rest of Canada Therefore it is necessary for Ontario to have a strong government a majority government that is strong enough to stand up to Mr threat to separate The Liberals have no hope of forming the government and the New Democrats have socialist leanings similar the Parti A majority Progressive Conservative government is the only alternative Will Second St be next It sure pays to advertise Last week someone presumably a resident of the area put up eight strategically placed signs on Mulock west of St They read Bad road and danger and slow and ended with a plea Mayor please fix The road it might be pointed out is broken up but its no worse than is usual for this time of year In fact when the road was part of King Township a few years ago it was at times im- passage in the spring Anyhow as we said it pays to advertise By last Friday town works department crews had scrapped and gravelled to the town boundary and had then coated it with a brine solution to keep the dust down It wasnt that the department was par ticularly lardy in fixing the road which is alternately boggy and cementhard clay ex plains superintendent Fred Evans It had to wail for the right weather conditions Now if we could just get as rapid action on York Regions plan to fix Second St from the high school south as it has promised to do this summer llboard The NewmarketEast Gwlllimbury Girls Hockey Association will hold its annual general meeting and election of officers for the coming season tonight May at the Newmarket Community Centre at pm Everyone is welcome to attend stage a dance at the Community Centre May 27 to help raise funds for its Fairgrounds ball lighting project Tickets are available at a couple from Best Kern or Mary Hogg The Newmarket Baseball Association is holding a clinic for coaches and those interested in coaching Thurs May at the Newmarket Community Centre at Films will be shown on base running batting catching fielding and pitching Newmarket Cable TV will also show a videotape of the Toronto Blue Jays clinic held In February The Deforest Childrens Centre will present the full length feature motion picture Thats Country May All proceeds from the event will go lo the Centre in Richmond Hill The movie highlights 30 years of country music featuring original footage of such stars as Jim Reeves Marty Robbins and Kilty Wells Tickets arc 2 at the door or can obtained from radio The public is invited to a open house at lessor I School Dr Newmarket Sun May 29 from to pm The event will give the public the opportunity to speak with directresses about the schools programs Heart Attack facts and fiction will be the subject of a presentation by Or Hod McDonald at St Johns Parish Centre on Ontario St Newmarket May at pm The evening is open to the public free of charge and is presented as a community service of the Knights of Columbus The Newmarket Minor Hockey Associations Mothers Auxiliary will meet in the Newmarket Community Centre hall 2 May at 8 pm The Newmarket One Parent Family Association will stage a dance at Lions Amphitheatre Sat May at pm Ad mission will be for members ami 5 for guests Music will be provided by a disc jockey and a buffet will served The staff of Junior Public School invited former pupils their parents and friends of Mrs Sylvia Train to attend a reception for her June The reception to mark Mrs Trains retirement from teaching will be held at the school from to pm An open dance will he held at May with the theme Graffiti Hawkins Doors open at pm Door prizes will be awarded and admission is The Newmarket a Iters featuring demonstrations displays and articles for sale will beheld Sat May at the Studio Main St Crafters will be at work and available to discuss their particular field with he public The Newmarket Reading Club will meet at the home of Mr Campbell Tues May The speaker will be former club member Mrs Dorothy Downey who will show slides and give a commentary on her travels in India Mrs Downey Is currently a member of the Beaches Reading Club In Toronto As part of its anniversary celebration Seneca College will present the firsl annual Grand Prix Bicycle Race May at Pinch Campus corner of Finch and Woodbine avenues Six races will be staged with prizes totalling cash awarded Registration and bicycle checks arc minutes before each race For more information call 222 St Andrews Presbyterian Church Newmarket will hold a rummage and bake sale May from 130 to pm The Newmarket Ladies Softball league will Rogers Public School in Newmarket will stage a fun fair May from 1 am 4 pm The daylong event will feature games crafts plants naked goods and a tea room DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD WAKE HIM OR PLAY THROUGH By ROY GREEN I Now I know how feels only worse is Paul who oc casionally writes a column in the Toronto Sun Often instead of column you will find a note from the publisher to the effect that did not write that day did not write last week The Era instead of just saying Roy did not write filled this space with the work of another writer His byline was Milliard but I know that is a penname for someone else at The Era Milliard decided to tell readers about me my wife my dog my job my empty wallet my swimming pool and five bucks which I owed him He did not mention that the five bucks was eventually repaid and has not at time of this writing been reborrowed THEERA Letters to the editor Ont March of Dimes wants H uman Rights Act widened Re Rights of Physically Disabled Persons and proposed Canadian Human Rights Act Hill now before the House of Commons Having studied Dill C- 25 it is the opinion of Ontario March of Dimes that provisions of the Hill do not offer adequate protection to physically disabled persons in their attempts to share in the privileges and respon sibilities of society Specifically the Bill offers protection only with respect to em ployment It does not protect physically disabled persons from discriminatory practices with regards lo ser vices facilities or ac commodations custom arily available to the gen eral public and commercial premises or residential accommoda tion Sections Vet discrimination in these areas is as real and more common to the physically disabled as is discrimination in em ployment Moreover even within the limited social area of employment a physically disabled person cannot expect to awarded same or equal reimbursement of costs which might be provided lo other victims of discriminatory em ployment practices Section SubSection Thus and legal views agree with our opinion an employer can cite cost of needed alterations say to washrooms as reasons for not employing persons who require wide doors grab rails etc as normal of the Federal Govern ment may refuse to carry a physically handicapped person Hut such discrimination would contravene the law if race ethnic origin religion sex etc was the reason These are but two examples why when an increasing number of physically disabled persons arc venturing towards independence and integration their needs Interestingly exclusion from full similar reasons have human rights may result been offered for not in many resigning hiring women Yet in themselves to an un- Ontario employers have warranted second class required to con- status It is this struct at their own ex- psychological reaction adequate facilities brought about by for women prejudice institutional Another example It discrimination and would seem that an physical barriers which airline under jurisdiction make physical disability a handicap If our society truly believes certain human rights are inalienable then it is essential that full rights and the protection of law be extended to all persons regardless of physical disabilities A more detailed analysis of the proposed legislation will be mailed to anyone on request to any office of the Ontario March of Dimes The document has been circulated to the House of Commons but vocal public support and demands on each member are critical if needed amendments are to be made ALISON ADAIR Community development worker Region of York Publicity helped new club The members of the good for the participant York Central Branch of We need all the help the Canadian Progress we can gel mid the help Club have undertaken you have given us has of establishing a been magnificent On Branch in Newmarket It behalf of all our members is not an easy It is I thank you for the very difficult to convince generous space given to people thai a little spare us in your 20th April time given to a Service edition Our goal cannot Club is not only good for be achieved overnight the community but also and it is most en- The Bygone Era From The Eras File over the longhaul receive support such as yours 1 hope to have the pleasure of meeting you in the near future and meantime wish you every success Canadian Progress Club VICARS AGOMAY The Hon Fielding brought down sup plementary estimates before House of Commons adjourned week included for con struction of the Trent Canal regarding summer training camps The York Rangers go Niagara along with other units on June Mr Thomas has bought the old Mill and will probably erect a residence on the same lot Saturday morning Hector McDonald of Holland Landing brought his eggs to market in a cutler here was 3 inches of snow and it was good slipping all the way until he reached Main SI Ewers Bros annual opening of their ice cream parlor will be on the evening of May when all lovers of choice orchestral music should call and hear the celebrated Orchestra Hie building trade is destined be active in Newmarket litis summer In to eight new houses already mentioned in past editions two more are in the course of erection on Prospect Ave nearly opposite the Reservoir by Hall Mr has bought some tots on Joseph Ave and intends to erect three houses this summer Thomas also has plans to build three houses on the same street Isaac Hose has closed contracts for two houses on Millard Ave Mr Brookes of Mount Albert is getting ready to build on Joseph Ave That makes houses Militia orders have been issued giving details MNC OH fittiiTou INK POOR UK THAT BOTH AMD HONK IF VKKTS one BUT THE Mr Robert Millard passed away Sunday He was the son of the into Timothy Millard and was born in the Township of on June and settled on farm where he died years ago at which time he married Miss Maria They had two sons and a daughter Dr Harrison P Millard of Connor BC CGeorge and at home Five generations of have resided on the farm where he died and family records date back to The late Robert Millards greatgrandfather located on this farm In and Joseph Millard Esq of Newmarket uncle of the deceased who attended the funeral was born there in For many years a saw mill was operated on this farm by waterpower but as the country became more settled the stream dried up and for years the land has been cultivated where the mill pond was formerly located Even the contour of the mill pond Is almost entirely obliterated The Newmarket Military Band will hold its first Lawn Party at the beautiful grounds of Mr Schmidt June 5 Voluptuous ravishing My dog didnt mind as he cant read My son never reads my column and doesnt even know he was mentioned My wife is upset Hilliard said she was voluptuous stunning and ravishing Her life has been changed since the publication of those comments People have been banging on our door and asking to see the ravishing stunning and voluptuous woman at our house These are people who know my wife and I They have also dropped in at my wifes place of work with the same idea in mind Wheres the stunning and ravishing wife of Roy Green they chortle with glee My wife slams the door and simmers She would like to find and punch him in beezer wont tell her who Hilliard really is so she is angry at anyone who works for The Era Last week she stopped the carrier boy and demanded to see some identification She is also looking for LaPlantes in the phone book but so far has only found a or two Other people have asked me who Hilliard is and how he knows so much about me They also want to know if all the things said were true Complimentary 1 will tell you what I told them If you thought some of the things said were nice or complimentary then they were true If you think they were uncomplimentary then they are not true After all truth is a subjective thing Truth is in the mouth of the teller Whatever that means You will have to make your own judgments about the truth of Milliards columnar remarks Im tempted to tell my wife who the real is But if did that shed go right down and punch Dave Haskell in the No Id better leave it just as it is Moving right along If had taken typewriter in hand last week I would have typed a word or two about the Lions Music Festival Smash hit It was another smash hit It is probably the largest of its kind other than the Ki wards Festival in Toronto The hours of time and work that go into the Lions Festival are incredible This is the kind of effort that should be community supported and probably suffers from general overkill of groups hitting the com munity coffers for other efforts Yes Im into that again This will be last word on subject The Lions Music Festival needs the support of the merchants and the community at large It is a most worthwhile project and one which benefits this community as well as others across the region The Lions find themselves competing with f too many other groups for funds ana Im sure suffer somewhat from this Thats what I was talking about when I said in two recent columns that there too many people with their hands out Need coordination Some type of overall coordination of fund- raising efforts is needed Thats enough on that subject might also have had a word on an American study on the effects of television on parents The University of California has just completed such a study with some interesting w results Those who watched primarily violent programs showed definite antisocial behaviour towards their children and families and friends Those who watched light comedy entertainment programs were generally more mild and friendly and even more helpful around the house Such a study would never work in Canada Up here everyone watches the same programs After a week or two of hockey night In Canada and Philadelphia Flyers wed all be running around with sticks in our hands intimidating our wives and children And I suspect that many people will watch the leaders of the three provincial parties debate on television later this month over election Issues I can just see it now Ontario men walking around like en masse boring their family and friends to tears with meaningless phrases ridiculous promises and silly retorts No the study would never work here