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CIRCULATION For three months ending December 31 Newmarket 2008 Aurora TOTAL PAID YEAR EXPRESS HERALD 61ST YEAR NO Trading Others and the Rural Districts of North York NEWMARKET ONTARIO THURSDAY MAY 3 1956 Campaign Today Salvation Army In Newmarket District r t The Salvation Armys Red Shield appeal is conducting its blitz this afternoon and even Sing In Newmarket and the grounding district During the past week Geoff Jones the manager of the Theatre has been showing the Trailer In which Jack known to viewers of Dragnet is the commentator for Red Shield appeal Chairman of the campaign Mayor lias writ- to various service clubs and organizations asking for their support A large group of canvassers under the direction of Mrs A Sheridan will be calling at and There Town By Local With the weather so bleak and shopers in town last week Stopped at the show window of llhe Wool Centre to admire a jbouquet of longstemmed tulips jTheir bright splash of red was a welcome harbinger of the long- waited spring These tulips had been picked Holland on Monday On Wed- morning they were on display in the store window of a St shop vate homes today for contribu tions Treasurer of the cam paign is A Cameron manager of Bank of Montreal branch in Newmarket To date the district of Sutton Jacksons Point and Keswick have been canvassed and the remaining district in cluding Sharon Virginia and Brad ford is to be canvassed during the second week of May All canvassers have bee in vited to take their collections to the campaign headquarters at the Citadel on Queen St fol lowing the blitz In charge of businesses and special listed for the campaign are Bob Davidson West Frank Dawson and Ted Abel During the past year the Sal vation Army has been busy do ing social work in the district The Army always is prepared lend a helping hand Among those who have been by the Army are transients fire victims persons involved in court cases and needy families The Army also has been tracing missing persons and arranging entry for unmarried mothers in to the Salvation Army homo in Toronto PLAN FOR NEWMARKETS t0tTH YEAR CELEBRATION 3 PC SINGLE COPIES CENTS EACH m Increase Nine Years former head master of Pickering College who of ceremonies on the weekly program Itycblumn in oho of the newspapers last week Graphic is presented each at Joe so the column has had more opportunity getting to know Canadians in walks of life than anybody else in television jumps from headmaster Pickering College to reformer Canadian penitentiaries to of Hart House only give indication of the wide scope of his interests Twenty years ago he was in with productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas that provided regular excuse for Toronto to visit the New- college Its pretty diffi cult to loaf around Hart House days without colliding with this dynamo of energy What he fflfl to the pens was sensational ijstory ftAnd what do to TV tin hes stopped may turn out equally sensational hes one man who refuses into a groove Hes a ifonnist in the best sense of word Toronto columnist corn- Mr approach of an Ed Murrow added Joe was away of the American in voice of approach and boyish interest in his subjects That is something TV badly needs today his background Joe be able to develop an en- new angle in Glasgow ho went to A In St Thomas and attend- University of Toronto and ford university He did SC A and social service work youth before taking the assignment His hole life has been spent in If he stays with his can count on Graphic a real example of public by TV Present Award Winning The Four Seasons At Sharon Hall Tomorrow An award winning pro duced by a Jacksons Point man called The Four Seasons will be shown at Sharon hall on Fri day evening May at pm The film is by Christopher man and is a study of the natural changes during the Canadian seasons The photography was done on Mr Chapmans family farm at Jacksons Point It won the Best Canadian Film award for and this year it has won an Italian award The presentation is by the Girls Auxiliary of St James church Sharon which will make a small charge to raise money for the church Mr Chapman will give a com mentary on the film to be shown are Health and Soil a conservation film and another on the anniversary of Sas katchewan Mr Chapman re turned recently from making Iho film in Saskatchewan It is expected that the town council and probably the chamber of commerce soon will be starting plans for Newmarkets 100th anniversary celebration next year It was in that Newmarket was Incorporated as a village Above is a photograph of part of Newmarket looking south east from the Christian church tower The first factory which later became the Office Specialty Mfg Co plant can be seen in the left background local Swimming Pool Campaign Postponed For One Or Two Weeks The swimming pool campaign in Newmarket will be postponed for a week or two past the scheduled dates of May and Chairman of the campaign Mr Peter Gorman has been given advice by his doctor to take a holiday and he Is out of town this week In the old days community marked important occasions with community celebrations or at least there were fancy decora tions put by the citizens as in the above picture token in The archway is on St at the bridge near the corner of Hamilton St looking westward The banner says A Fair Play Tariff A Dominion Necessity displayed during a political campaign Arrest By Newmarket Police Leads To Capture Of Three The successful apprehension against one of them by the Appoint Hugh Grant Principal Of New Bei School Mr Hugh Grant was appoint ed principal of the J Bell school by the Public School Board of Trustees on Tuesday May J Other arrangements were completed for the full oc cupancy of the school in September At present three of the rooms are being Mr Grant is principal of the Alexander school No one was to fill Mr Grants vacancy The board is advertis ing this week for a principal grade teachers and a kindergar ten teacher as the 33 rooms of the five public schools will be in use for the school term Mr A Jackson supervising principal advised the board that six kindergarten classes will be required next year They will be held in three classrooms with one group meeting in each room in the morning and tho other in the afternoon At recent registration of fiveyear olds Mr Jackson said that had registered for kin dergarten and 12 for grade one Since many of the houses under construction will be occupied be fore the fall that number is ex pected to increase before the opening day in September There are pupils in the public schools the present time including students who came to the schools during April They are the children of new families in the community of a hitandrun driver by New market police on Monday night resulted in the arrest of three men who are wanted by police in and Barrio for a series of robberies Further charges were laid Coming Events THURSDAY MAY Special numbers called will People around town are the removal of many of mail boxes Residents in the Srlgley area said it it will be a great to go down to the to mail a letter For older that walks as is no direct route is a fair- long or complaints have come citizens who live on or in other sections which younger consider fairly close attic but to them ft distance to walk postal regulations dont for nail radius of office within a half mile from box As a nine be ha bean km faftn put in Aurora Legion hall Top line numbers called Jackpot numbers called SAT MAY AND WED MAY The sixth annual recital of the Betty Gordon Dancing class at the Newmarket Town Hall FRIDAY MAY King Fire mens dance pm In Crawford Wells Hall Sally Lloyd and her Musical Mates Door prizes Admission SI- SATURDAY MAY St Johns bingo in Newmarket town hall jackpot At pm Free dinner ware clwltt TUESDAY MAY Rett Cross will sew and Trinity United church hall to pm volunteers needed Lunch served TUESDAY MAY play Aunt Cindy Cleans presented by Junior Far mers under the auspices of Kot- In the Kcttleby United church hall pm Admls adults children 25c WEDNESDAY MAY on rosea by George rated with colored slides at Newmarket Horticultural meet Trinity church hall Refreshments Public welcome WEDNESDAY MAY New market Veterans Association bingo Town Hall First game hewealth special garnet all cash 3 door paid to first full card Admission only for 2 cards Proceeds Newmarket Veterans Fund President Herb Fletcher Treas Alfred FRIDAY MAY In Institute hall pm presentation and dance In honor of Mr mid Mrs Aubrey Marshall Ladles provide refreshments THURSDAY MAY Tho Group of the Aurora and District Unit holding a country tea in of the Cancer Society at West Winds home of Mrs Gage con from 3 to m FRIDAY MAY Old dance Newmarket Town nail pm to am Charlie Van and his orchestra featuring Mrs Da vies Hough director of square dancing Admission 75 cents Sponsored by Stuart Scott Home and School TUESDAY MAY 22Plnno re- by the pupils of Mae Pat terson in Newmarket High School auditorium at pm SATURDAY MAY Blossom tea United church under the of Evening Auxiliary Homemade baking and Apron tables Admission MONDAY MAY Advanced grades piano by Charlotte Morton Burrows Kern Peters Marvin pupils of Mae Patterson In High School auditorium at pm FRIDAY NOV nu autumn tea a Newmarket department Jack Bates 23 of Collingwood was arrested after he failed to remain at the scene of a minor accident He a park ed car on Main St Speeding south he passed William Hill who was making routine checks of the business premises Sgt Hill said that he heard the car coming and was able to take the license number The arrest was made by Dep uty Chief James and Sgt Hill later that night Two wo men in the car were released as was one man Henry Davis 23 of He was picked up later by Ontario Provincial Po lice near on advice from the Newmarket police The third man Morris of was retained in custody by the local police and later retcased to tho Pro vincial police The trio face charges of safe cracking break ing entering and theft Some articles believed to be stolen goods were seized by the police at the time arrest Tho cor that was hit by Bates ear was owned by Mr Damon Stewart Police estimat ed that It would cost to re pair the damages Charges laid against Bates by the Newmarket police include impaired driving failing to re main and causing malicious damage The last charge result ed after Bates destroyed equip ment In his cell during the night He will appear In Magistrates court on Tuesday May CONCRETE CRUMBLES New sidewalks in both Aurora and Newmarket laid in past year or so have been abating and crumbling So fan Woman Takes Part In Program The star of the Newmarket Legion Ladies auxiliary birth day party at York Manor in April was not one of the visiting entertainers but 97yearold resident Mrs Polly Roberta Mrs Roberts delighted her au dience with several recitations and joined the Ted Reeve in singing some of the old songs after ho had serenaded her earlier in the program Mrs Arthur Sheridan was the general convener She was as sisted by Mrs Kenneth Mrs Maurice Winters Mrs Wil liam Brookes Mrs Cameron and Mrs Albert White in serving the to the senior citizens following the program Mr and Mrs Peter Wilde welcomed visitors Entertainment was provided by Ken at Ted Reeve as soloist and Don and his harmonica Fav orite songs of the residents were sung and played by the trio The old people particularly enjoyed the harmonica selections saying that they helped to recall the good old days for them Each month the Ladles aux iliary visits York Manor and holds a birthday party Cards arc distributed among cele brants of the month and all the residents including those in the Infirmary are visited and a piece of birthday cake and soma other treat NO MEETING In nine years 1947 to the tax rate in Newmarket has in creased from mills to mills The population in that period of time has increased by a little over 2000 While population has Increased by about percent costs have increased about percent The mill rate went from to in and then to this year In the nine year period administration and general ex penses increased a little less than percent In the budget included 23090 under admin istration and general In it was 36550 and this year it is Expenditures for the police de partment show a marked in crease from a 3500 budget in to 12000 in to this year The education budget in was for in for Aurora To Consider New Fire Agreements With King Whitchurch Aurora council plans dis cuss increases in charges for fire department services to King and Whitchurch townships The fire committee of council lias recommended a salary of 650 for the fire chief for the secretary 15 for the treas urer 50 for the caretaker for the truck mechanic and for each fireman for every fire call The town has fire agreements with King and Whitchurch to provide fire protection and this year 167597 The education budget has in creased more than four times in a nine year period and a per cent population increase Roads Bridges Public works streets and bridges budgets have increased from 18700 in to in to today Municipal grants for recrea tion community services clubs and so on totalled in 4975 in and 18173 in There are more provin cial grants returned on this ex penditure today than in and In 1947 there was no engineer ing department An engineer was hired that year In the budget for the engineering de partment was 5894 and in it is 13625 The public welfare budget in was 3000 in and for it is 7500 This item shows the smallest increase of all budget items The budget includes spe cial additional items such as 2700 for street numbering for a local bus lines subsidy and 1200 for industrial coin- mission This years budget shows that that there are persons listed Comparison Of Costs For District Towns On Per Capita Basis Newmarkets municipal costs on a per capita basis have been worked out be approximate ly this year The cost of financing Aurora for this year is approximately per person Of the three Street communities Newmarket Au rora and Richmond Hill Rich mond Hill has the highest per capita cost of as receiving salaries from the town There was no list in the 1947 budget but in there were The fire department budget was 1700 in in 1951 and is for There are persons listed un der police department salaries plus one more to start this month- There was no list in although the budget of would indicate no more than one full time man For there were six listed but some were part time Home School Hears Talk On Safety By Police Chief European Songs Dances To Be Presented By Home And School Council The songs and dances of Euro pean newcomers to Canada will be presented in a program at Home and School council annual meeting tonight May at pm The meet- is being held at Cherry Hill farm number seven highway mile west of Unionville The New Canadians will per form in their native costumes There will be a display of handi crafts both Canadian and Euro Refreshments will be served This meeting as are all pro grams of Home and School is open to all member of Home and School groups in county The new officers for will be installed More than deaths oc curred on the North American continent from traffic accidents in Chief Constable Byron told the King George Home and School association when it met at the school on Monday April Mr said that there were no less than laws as laid down under the Highway Traffic act for the mo torist to obey He doubted if any car drivers realized this respon sibility to the extent that they read the act Some of the statistics regarding traffic for last year which Mr quoted were Seventy percent of all the fatalities were the result of motorists disobeying a traffic law Some 3000000 per sons were injured in traffic ac cidents There were people in Ontario who last their drivers permits Damage to property ran into the billions of dollars and added to that were the costs of civil and criminal court action Traffic control consists of edu cation the publics responsi bility engineering safety from the technical standpoint of bet- Mayor Clarifies Point Land For Metropolitan Home TlurttpM no meeting of the town council held this expected- that Mayor Herbert M of Newmarket has issued a state ment to clarify a point which appeared in Toronto newspapers last week It was stated in the Toronto press last week that Metro purchased the land for its new home for the aged Green Acres Eagle St Newmarket The mayor points out that part of the land was a gift from New market The statement appeared along with criticisms voiced by Reeve Marie Curtis of Long Branch against the local Ministerial as sociation Tho mayor also said that ho has replied to Reeve Curtis in a personal letter The following is what the mayor said this week Recently the Toronto papers published comments by the lady reeve of Long Branch which re flected unfairly on our local clergy Truly there would seem to be little to be done in this matter except to write a letter of remonstrance to the lady in question which has been done In article expressing ladys views there was a com men to the effect that the Metro bought the property which has aroused the interest of many citizens It Is not easy to recon cile this with the criticism which has been levelled at council for donating the The explan ation however is quite simple The land donated by the town was purchased in the first place to provide a site for Heights being the residue of the property after this subdivision was set up and other par cels were sold When the old York County existed prior to it was th Manor on Eagle St On this un derstanding our council under took to donate the unused por tion of the property The coun ty added to acreage by pur chase of a tract from the late Mrs Robinson and agreed to certain requirements as to fenc ing and road vV When the southern mu nicipalities joined with Toronto to form Metropolitan Toronto the Metro council agreed to build a much larger home provided the Newmarket council would stand by their original offer of some nine acres This was granted and Metro council agreed to pay to the old County council some which rep resented the cost of land purch ased from Mrs Robinson and other expenses incurred by York County Such is the explanation why it is reasonably accurate to say Metro paid for site and yet some percent of the land was donation from the town of Newmarket Meet The Champs On Thursday May A Meet the Champs ban quet for the Newmarket Gor man Smoke Ontario Junior champions tor will be held at the Newmar ket Lesion Hall May 10 Time to the ban quet Is Tickets may be ebtataed cars anil highways and en the police officers duties Parents school and police constables mat teach traf fic safety rules to children of the elementary aire Mr said This is a continu ing task and requires constant repetition so that it becomes sec ond nature for o fol low safe traffic rules Example is the most effective means of teaching these rules he suggest ed Children should be taught to look both ways before crossing streets to keep out from between parked cars to ride bicycles safely and obey all signs and nab to play their games in safe places away from traffic to walk and not run when they cross the streets and to cross at the inter- sections Parents crossing busy streets with their children should allow plenty of time Little children can t react to an emergency as quickly as an adult and tins has been the cause accidents Mr said Much of the safety of the chil dren on the streets and highways is not in their control It rests with the man in the drivers seat- A motorist must exercise extreme caution when children around lie must anticipate their next move and be prepared to act quickly Next conies the education of the driver Mr contin ued Once a person is behind the wheel he has all the confi dence in the world but mistakes are made Before any holiday weekend statistics are printed estimating the number of people who will lose their lives in traf fic accidents Very often that number is exceeded Regardless of how perfect the road conditions are or in what good mechanical condition is the can there remains the driver as possible cause of an accident It is driver who is the tough est variable He is the hardest cause of accidents to influence and control The vast majority of accidents are caused by people Other fac tors may contribute but it is the driver who controls car and makes decisions that can prevent or load to an accident No high way or automobile can be de signed which can override the carelessness and selfishness of the driver Just as long as the average motorist thinks that it is unim portant to follow the minor fie laws the epidemic of motor vehicle accidents will continue Only when a police officer is watching do some people give signals stop at stop streets ob serve parking bylaws such as not obstructing driveways park ing by hydrants and double park toff- The motorist who travels at speeds of to is show- by his actions that he has no regard for the safety of people The impaired or drunk driver one of the pro