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Jit A DAVID HASKELL St to by inland Publishing Co Limit for for TERRY CARTER v Mi Inland EditorinChief group el suburban w ROBERT MARTIN Gutrdltn Burlington Pott and Sun Baver This CMrtian AuoclatfOnnd GRIFFIN lion Charles St Ml ew Some say its the summer doldrums But as far as were concerned the holdup of approval for the beds at York County smacks at the least inconsideration perhaps more seriously arrogance on the of provincial politicians promise for 20 additional chronic and beds came through last May A meeting between provincial health Bill Hodgson Newman and hospital executive director Roeder set the scene for the announcement While the Newmarket hospital was obliged lake chronic care patients from Stouf fviltes Bush Hospital which was to have closed additional acute care beds would ease sure on the hospitals emergency depart- and elective surgery schedule having to cancel elective surgery and even refer some emergency cases to other hospitals With the small easing of that situation promised in the May announcement we praised the provincial politicians for their speed in ac ting Problem is York County Hospital still hasnt seen those beds The hospital is coping as it has in the past but disappointment and perhaps even anger is evident as discusses the current situation The reasonable explanation he notes is that the YCH approval like all other provincial decisions must go through the provinces management board Thats where its held up in what one YCH official calls the summer doldrums While it may be an understandable ex- Irony its not entirely acceptable York County Hospital officials continue Particularly when the MPPs have accepted praise for quick action that they apparently Next time lets hope they link those ipty rooms which health ministry officials will allow to be used Other weeks The Era has told of the hospital promises with a true knowledge of the reality thats to come WITH FOOD PRICES STILL RISING MY GARDEN IS GETTING LIKE FORT on you e ite Letters to the editor Judge White has promised to lower the report tardy lawyers to the Upper Canada Law boom on lawyers who delay the proceedings of Society for discipline J his court by being late or as too often happens showing up at all In issuing his warning the judge listed the many costs inherent in the operation of his court In this move we are sure he has the support which continue to roll on while the whole everyone else involved in the operation of that sits waiting for late lawyers to show up And the list is formidable Newmarket for your support of corps Impact 77 court The wheels of justice grind slowly at the best of times but when delay must follow delay to suit the convenience of legal counsels who seem to d so little respect for the coyrt that they feel own schedules should take precedence over courts it is time for action Judge White one day last week had to ad journ his court for a recess shortly after it convened at am because lawyers absences made it impossible to proceed with the docket He warned then that in future he will The costs of justice are one of the fastest- escalating we have and if allowed to continue at their present pace will soon be out of all proportion to our ability to pay for them Politicians can make arbitrary cuts from the top each year but real economies can only be everyone must affected by streamlining from the bottom by now Hist how successful maintaining an efficiently operating court and you all helped make our police system We say good on you Judge White Thank you Newmarket Thank you Aurora As we are in the middle of our competitive season and constantly on the move we arc somewhat late in offering our sincere thanks to our communities Im sure as con say to brother To The Era we say organizations They you from even tore out the pitchers bottoms of our hearts for mound because it was In your splendid coverage the way or so many assistance has other wonderful things made public that were done for us by our so many wonderful lne tremendous people without being value of our type of musical B There will be no overnight camping The park is located just North of the Aurora Sideroad on Don Mills Anyone interested should call 8261 or The Newmarket Ladies Softball Association will be staging its first invitational tournament at the Fairgrounds Aug through 21 Teams from Aurora Weinberg and Keswick are scheduled to take part in the event Admission is New leaders are needed immediately for per day or for a weekend pass Players both the first East Cubs and Scouts senior citizens and kids under IS are admitted free McDonalds Restaurant will be staging giveaways throughout the three day event The opening game gets underway pm Aug priest Father Dennis Bennett the author of Nine Oclock in the Morning will speak Wed Aug 24 at the Aurora Conference Centre west of St oh the St John Admission for the event is and the program begins at pm The program will be outdoors and attending are asked to bring blankets and lawn chairs Aurora service clubs are combining to sponsor a dance Aug 26 with proceeds going to the Aurora Library expansion fund The dance with live band and refreshments will begin at pm at the Community Centre Tickets are available at the centre The Toronto Diocesean Boys Choir will perform Holy Communion at St Pauls Anglican Church in Newmarket Aug The ceremony begins at anCand all are welcome The CORL travelling poppet show will make the Public Library in The Newmarket Baseball Association is Mount Albert Aug at am The holding its yearend dance at Newmarket show will be held outdoors in Mount Albert park legion on Srigley St Sept Tickets are per and moved to the community centre in the event couple and the evening features music a bar and a buffet For more information and tickets call The East Library is also sponsoring Come To The Movies featuring the films I Heard The Owl Calling My Name and BUI The Lake Simcoe Arts Foundation will be Crosby on Prejudice The films will be shown staging a fundraising party at Tim Barn Aug in the Holland Landing Community Theatre Fri Sept 2 The admission of per Centre Aug at the North Union Community couple includes a hot and cold buffet Hall and Aug 24 at the Mount Albert Community door and spot prizes and refrcsh- tickets call the theatre at 7223741 This Saturday and Sunday Park will be presenting a Rock Picnic from 10 am to pm The festival will feature groups such as Toga Nemlsis Yesterday Shoppe Onyx Kashmir and Steve Admission Is advanced and at the gate for each day The sixth annual arts crafts and antiques fall festival at Seneca College King Campus has been scheduled for Sun Sept Ap proximately local artisans will be able to display their wares and talents at the show For more information call the campus at first contest IMPACT The entire Canadian Drum Corps Association is abuzz about the tremendous support the Ambassadors received in their first contest Needless to say we were very much impressed by the wholehearted en thusiastic assistance and cooperation given at every turn Its not very often that an organization such Stores mix up seasons asked and well I could probably fill a page of The Era if I started with individuals Ambassadors er will be looking forward to an even bigger and better presentation with IM PACT 78 Until then again Thank you Newmarket and thank you Aurora PAUL ANSON Corps Director The Ambassadors Drum and Bugle Corps Society will run steam train K toGravenhurstOct 1 Today I went to buy some clothes for my vacation only to find that the stores considered 3 piece wool suits fur coats and ski jackets suitable apparel for August Every year fall fashions arrive sooner but this year it seems fall Is forgot about and we are pushed right into winter in the first week of August If the stores continue this trend some year they will end up getting the seasons right in spite of themselves In the whole of Upper Canada Mall I could not find one pair of denim shorts and as I looked around me my tem perature rose while just looking at the clothes let alone trying them on Well lets hear it for bikinis in January and me sitting on the beach in a ski jacket this weekend J FOSTER Newmarket The Upper Canada public Society a spection profit organization is pleased to announce a Tickets purchased special steam train to the before September 10th Gravenhurst Centennial are available at discount celebrations on Sat Oct prices adults We will follow the CN children under mainline to Gravenhurst After Sept to the adult Passengers will have fare is for hours to have lunch children Side trio to participate in Centennial cost and the celebrations see the new bus tour railway museum tour the historic lake steamer Segwin and Norman house take a scenic walking tour around There is an optional sidetrip to aboard steamer Also available is a bus tour of Region Great opportunity to Tickets are available at the CN Refund Desk Union Station or by mail from Box Station D Scarboro After Sept available at Eatons Special At traction Offices phone and use your Eatons Charge Account TONY VIGERS Box Toronto By ROY GREEN Where else but Newmarket could you drive down the street on a sunny Saturday morning and smell lavender scented streets The recreation department Canada Man power and that fast food chain that does it alt for you came up with the Idea A clean up day People mainly kids traipsing around town picking up garbage And the streets cleaned with lavender scented water Could you imagine that happening in Toronto The perennial drunk lying in the gutter would wake up to nil that lavender and think hed gone to Heaven Or that hed fallen asleep in a house of III repute Why would anyone choose big city over the small but growing town No contest If the lavender scented water is not a good enough comparison a look at our weekly paper brings many other talking points The life is not all sunshine and flowers and lavender streets We have our bad news too A plant employing people in Aurora is closing down In on area where industry the right kind of industry is courted like a Juliet by nine area municipal that is a disaster A possible political scandal threatens to become a minor Watergate in A trial continues wherein a stud farm owner is charged with mistreating his horses No its not all good news But the front pages of the weeklies here tell it all That they are not full of murder crime scandal and corruption is good That they are called boring by some people is good Better boring than alive with the malaise that is reflected globally in our bigcity dailies Crime on the front page of the Aurora Bonner last week was two breakins at the Newmarket beer store and the seizure of a marijuana harvest at an farm The Eras front page was crimeless last week but it did carry a story about a new courthouse for this area Indicating that there will be a ready source for future stories about crime and its practitioners A newspaper reflects its community better than anything else I know Pick up your Star Sun and Globe and Mail on a Wednesday then look at your community newspaper Is there any place youd rather bo Outrage in Toronto over sex shops on St where a 12year old shoeshine boy was killed Compared to a fullcolor photo of the Queen of the Sutton Fair Parents charged with beating their children as opposed to the announcement of a Punch arid Judy puppet show at the library Tales of cor pernio mismanagement costing millions com pared to extensive coverage of a monopoly tournament complete with photo at the Upper Canada Mall A photo of policemen restraining pickctcrji at some strike scene as opposed to a color shot of a lad throwing a frisbce at thc photographer Did it hit you Ken J Admittedly part of the reason for this seeming glut of soft news is the season summer and the politicians like large dogs are napping in the shade So nothings happening Isnt that great The Sutton Fair a monopoly tournament a puppet show and a beer store breakin were some of the biggest events in town Love it Even the sports pages are different Thfc Blue Jays lose The Chubbs and the Aurora Diggers win The newspapers I dare to repeat reflect their communities better than anything else I know People in Newmarket can walk the streets at night now that the pinball parlour is closed with an assurance that no longer exists in the big cities Even Toronto Its a quiet people place A good place for kids And even if the streets arent paved with gold they are cleaned with lavender scented water f I should resign i I i By SINCLAIR STEVENS Member of Parliament YorkSimcoe Todays inflation figures coupled with an 81 photograph ONRs new per cent unemployment rate low real growth trains with the falling Canadian dollar and record budgetary The Color Special deficits clearly demonstrate Donald Mac- departs Toronto Union at Inadequacy in the finance portfolio His WsS resignation should be forthcoming immediately hi ffi is particularly so when we view uranium cartel he actively promoted In spite of rimnasu l laws of Canada No officer of the Crown can continue when he has demonstrated on the one photographers and the hand his contempt for laws of the land and on Societys own restoa the other hand his total inability to provide the business Car 13 will be economic climate so desperately needed in this country One need only look to the Canadians currently without work for the full measure of this ministers shortfall Next month Mr will have been Minister of Finance for two years Since he took over it has been all downhill economically for Canada Virtually every forecast he has made has been wrong In October Mr Macdonald and the prime minister initiated their AntiInflation Program predicting that inflation would now be down to six per cent and four per cent next year Now it is admitted there is no way their program will achieve this goal In his budget of May 25 Macdonald predicted the rate of will con tinue the recent level trend in the near term and gradually decline as cyclical expansion takes hold Today months later unemployment in Canada is topping eight per cent up from per cent over last year and employment in our nations vital manufacturing sector has declined a shocking in one year alone In sharp contrast the Americans have dropped their unemployment to its present level of 69 per On the inflation front as well the ministers record is dismal Only four months ago Mac donald said in his May 31 1977 budget the underlying momentum of inflation is slowing Yet inflation today stands at 84 per cent once again in stark contrast to the US rate of 69 per cent Faced with such a patent failure the government has openly given up on any chance of achieving its inflation targets under the Anti- Inflation program and is publicly flip flopping over when and if it will end controls has made it clear in the House on several occasions that he would announce a date for decontrol by the end of July yet that date has come and gone without any indication from the Cabinet that it has resolved its differences over the program With the highest unemployment rate among the major western industrialized nations am with only marginal progress in the battle against inflation Canada can ill afford such indecisive policies of drift The governments plight is reflected in tt budgetary deficits which keep rising In June Ottawas deficit was 50 per cent higher than in June last year in spite of the fact that in there was the highest federal budgetary deficit in our history The falling dollar down 10 per cent took over reflects the international judgment of Canadas economic performance With these hard facts facing us as a nation new policies coupled with an industrial strategy arc becoming more and more needed in Canada Mr Stevens a Progressive Conservative MP is the official oppositions finance critic I