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I- la J COUNCIL REPORT last Mfote Push By Davis Moffat To Pass ByLaw The last regular meeting of the 1954 town council was held on Monday December 20 when the mayor and all members were present Among other subjects on the agenda the old problems of the arena and the zoning bylaw once more stirred lively discus sion An engineers report on the old public school building stated that it was structurally sound but that considerable expense would be needed to modernize its heat ing facilities and to make it prac ticable for a variety of uses Mr Harold Mr Copland and Mr Stan Walker appeared as a lions club delega tion requesting a refund of taxes amounting to based on the claim that the clubs operations were philanthropic in principle and therefore not liable to such taxation Considerable discussion took place on the application and fi nally it was resolved into a mo tion The vote proved a tie and this was broken by the mayors casting vote in favor of the re fund of tax paid Dr Appears Dr appeared before council to express his pleasure at the cooperation that had existed over discussions on the proposed zoning bylaw and to wish the mayor and coun the compliments of sea son- The mayor reciprocated these felicitations Athletic Field Board DeputyReeve Murray soon to be Reeve Murray presented a report on the Athletic Field Board which showed a good cash balance in hand and receiv ed the congratulations of the mayor and council ByLaws Councillor Moffat chairman of bylaws introduced a bylaw for the borrowing of to cover expenses until taxes are collected be left over to the new council Councillor Davis then leapt to his feet to say that as one who wouldnt be here next year he was in favor of passing the sec ond reading and then seconded Councillor Moffats motion to proceed with it Its been bat ted around for three years de clared the councillor Debate Continues The mayor said the amend ments would need to be rewrit ten and put into a new bylaw a point that was supported by Councillor Jones who said that the matter was one for the so licitor The town solicitor said the by law was not yet formulated and nothing was in its final form which evoked- from Councillor Moffat the comment that it seemed a case of passing the buck from one council to anoth er DeputyReeve Murray said the map was outdated by five years and the matter should be held over for the new council to deal with The mayor said he didnt agree and suggested the amendments should be discussed and then sent to the solicitor for prepara tion of a new bylaw A motion to that effect was carried by majority and the amendments were proceeded with A second reading of the bylaw will now have to be con sidered by the new coun cil No Report So Far Councillor William Davidson asked the mayor if he had any and a further bylaw covering report on the complaint he had the appointment of Harrison brought to council that certain as snow remover farms had not been inspected by Councillor Moffat then invited the Health Unit The mayor council to give a second reading to the zoning bylaw having re gard to amendments introduced thereto DeputyReeve Murray protest ed such procedure saying that s one who would be here next year the zoning bylaw should said he regretted he had over looked this matter but promised to take it up with Dr King A review of the final meet ing of the council will be given in Council Sidelights in next weeks issue of Aurora News Page Editor W THEY ARE SAYING Celebration Of Christinas In Varied Choral Services Trinity Anglican church Aurora celebrated Christ mas with a lieautiful Christmas Eve Choral Eucharist preceded by a recital of European carols by the senior choir under the direction of the choir director and or ganist Mrs Harris They sang a Bach chorale from were three carols the Christmas Oratorio and a century melody of how a rose a Polish carol Little Jesus is Sighing two French Noels O Leave Your Sheep and The Sleep of Child Jesus and an carol Sleep Little Dove The congregation joined the choir in the singing of Hoists In Die Bleak Midwinter and Silent Night On Christmas Day there was a celebration of Holy Communion at which the junior choir was in attendance Christmas services were con tinued on Sunday December with the rector If officiating at all ser vices Service In Tableau Tonight Thursday December the Sunday school and choir will present a Nativity Service In tableau in the chancel of Trin ity Anglican church commenc ing at a pm If United Church Mr If Fowler Mus of Newmarket organist and choirmaster of Richmond Hill United church presented an im pressive choral festival program for the Christmas celebs a lion which was enjoyed by a near- capacity attendance at the even ing service He was assisted by Mrs Willis of Aurora guest organist Following an organ prelude composed of old carol melodies by Lester and the processional hymn Hark the Herald An gela sang with great zest by the congregation the church choir and junior choir of which some members were present gave a scries of beautiful ren ditions under Mr Fowlers sen sitive direction Especially beautiful and sung by the senior choir These were On the Birthday of the Lord Sleep Holy Babe and A Child This Day Is Born Outstanding Work The whole program featured outstanding work and praise is due to Mr Fowler for the build ing up of a fine junior choir whose progress is marked by ex cellent liming and tonal quality The performances of the senior choir also of a high order The A minister of the church gave an effective Christmas mes sage in no more than five min utes and ably assisted by Miss A student assistant Sevenfold Amen given by the senior choir and Handels organ The King Shall powerfully interpreted by Mrs Willis brought a very fine choral pro gram to a close At the Aurora United the annual candlelight service was held on Sunday and was weltattended Mr Han is noted choir director made a varied selection of car ol Stum of interna tional renown The selections were greatly enjoyed Following Tin- Lit Ho to Bethlehem and Little town of Bethlehem linn was Polish carol With has our Descended and the A Christinas Carol from Lapland the Dutch Melody Within the town of Bethlehem and the Ukrainian Melody Bethlehem thou happy city and a Czech Melody Sleep Baby Sleep The hymn Silent Night fol lowed by the benediction closed the services which were conduct ed by the resident minister J Morris Aurora Social News Mr and Mrs J Armstrong and their three sons from Toron to were Christmas guests of Mr nd Mrs Leslie Wilson among Christmas of Mr and Mrs Roy were Mr and Mrs Young and daughter Mr and Mrs nil Elgin Mills Mr George Manning at Cornish if olden Mass ilsa arrived for the Christmas and New Year vaca lions with Mrs Willis Mrs M and fam ily Toronto spent With Mr and Mrs A Mrs Harriett Toronto and Mr and Mis Davis New market were Christmas guests of Mr and Mrs Ed Cole Miss and Stephen Mills Aurora and Gor don Downward and Pat Newmarket attended a dance at Forest Hill golf club on Wed- Miss Stocks entertained a group of Aurora young people prior to the Aurora and District school frolic last week News Page J SINCLAIR Editor HALL AURORA OFFICE TELEPHONE PA PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR EDITORIALS THE NEW YEAR There is we think something exhilarating in the thought of the approach of a New Year It moans a new start and a new start is exciting It reminds us of the spring and the getting out of the garden tools We begin again where we left off in the hope that this years garden will be a great improvement on the last We can cast a retrospective glance at the old year and note where failures were made These we can assure ourselves need not be repeated Always pro viding that we can learn from experience Not that there need be too many regrets over what may be called failures Sometimes these are more useful than quick successes Indeed what may be considered failures are some times successes in disguise A man may change his job and feel that he has made a mistake But in the course of time the mistake turns out to be the best step he could have taken In any case nothing is to be gained from indulging in regrets The worst of all follies is to spend time in regretting the past The past cannot be recalled Whats done is done Or as the old saying has it Theres no use in crying over spilt milk It is a mere waste of time to say what one might or might not have done at any par- ticular moment in ones life For all these reasons it is good to welcome in the New Year There is something inspiring in the thought that we may accomplish in the New Year that which eluded our grasp in the old As the poet Tennyson wrote The old year is dying herald in the new To all our readers A Happy And A Prosperous New Year THE NEW TOWN COUNCIL f m m The new mayor of the town and members of coun cil will be sworn in on Monday January 3 Wo extend our best wishes to Dr Henderson and the new council for a successful year of office In every way that we can subject to the independence of this news paper assist work by faithful reporting and honest editorial comment It is part of municipal law that the public and the press are free to attend council meetings subject to neither interrupting or intervening in council proceed ings The only means the electors have of learning what their elected representatives are doing is through the press The press can be of inestimable service to elected representatives It should have no favorites It should report faithfully in substance at least what members of council say while council is in session Its editorial opinions and comments are strictly its own business and should not be influenced by any other consideration than the public welfare Without the press the majority of the electors would not learn what their representatives were doing All publicspirited elected bodies welcome the presence of the press All publicspirited representatives wish the public to What are doing on behalf of those who placed them la Of ice That is the democratic way of life as it enjoyed in democratic countries Next month Aurora will have a new mayor and a number of new members of council On the of the inauguration of the new town council we repent a promise we made two weeks ago namely that this newspaper will pursue equality and fair play ia its relations between the town council and the public More should not be exacted of us nor should wo receive less BAD LOSERS A bumptious winner is always an tier- He knew before the event that he would win and has all the answers why it would be so His opponent did not lake this or that into calculation Ami he wasnt the man for the job In short he was a poor sap who had no business running anyway Even more offensive than the bumptious winner is the bad loser He has all the answers why he did not win Most of them have to do with some foul tactics used by his successful opponent He cannot appreciate the fact that the electors did not want him anyway so he resorts to blaming his opposition for underhand methods A good winner is one who takes success with modesty He is the first to offer his hand to the loser and to tell him that he may have better luck next time A good loser is one who immediately offers his congra tulations to his successful opponent He tells hint he de served to win and means it Many a good loser has won the esteem of the elec tors by his generous manner at the moment of his de feat and has started out with this great advantage when ho tried again Tito public admires a good loser And they also keep in mind the bumptious winner latter caw that himself shall be SUMMING UP Defeated Projects Delays Features Of 1954 Council At this writing with only one more meeting of the town council to go before the curtain falls on it is possible to take a backward glance at some major events of the year It has been a busy year but it is no use suggesting that it has been an altogether har monious one A SCOTSMAN WRITES On New Years Celebration Away Back In Old Scotland As the years go by one thing I long for more than most others and that is to spend the New Year holiday in dear old Scotland Let me tell you that among the rain and the mists theres a lot of fond affection in the land that can boast of owning Burns and Loch Lomond In some way it has been a year of frustrations In ether words projects have been put forward and defeated and some of them ileserved that fate There have been a few temperamental out breaks but no open hostilities a fact that can be attributed to good control on the part of the mayor- There have been occa sions when council might have gotten out of hand in the case of weak chairmanship Proposals Defeated la very early part of the year the controversial subject of holding what was called an Old Home Week was projected We dont recall that the mayor him self was enthusiastic over the proposal Our impressions were that he was lukewarm even to the point of suggesting to the chairman of the sports and pub licity committee to forget it But that was not the case with a small aggressive group who urged that it be helcL They put forward no good reasons for it except that it would promote business Thai in our view was not a good reason but a bad one An Old Home Week should not be promoted for business but for sentimental reasons only You dont invite your friends and re lations to come to a reunion in order to raid their The one good reason that the Old could have used bolster their case seemed unknown to them Not one of them mentioned the fact that was the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary year of the settlement of Aurora the original name of which was Matchville founded in the year Apparently the Old Home- weekers didnt know their local history Apart from this his torical reason which was a good one but never there was no argument for an Old Home Week in Aurora in except that of an advertising stunt As an advertising stunt it failed as it deserved to fail The Park Proposal An even more inflammable proposal than Old Home Week was that of the acquisition of a tenacre park adjacent lu the High school The real reasons it has been suggested for the ac quisition of this land have not been revealed The circumstances concerned with the proposal ate almost as puzzling as a mystery story To begin with it was understood thai the property was available and an offer to buy it for the sum of was made to the owner This was rejected mid it seemed that the matter was ended However in a short time the proposal for purchase was again raised at council but on this oc casion a majority of council turn ed it down after a somewhat hec tic debate Council decision was not however accepted by a small group of diehards and their per sistence inspired the Murray leaf let which provoked a stormy ses sion at council initiated at a moment when the mayor hud his gavel raised to adjourn the meet ing At a later date DeputyUceve Murray asked that a vote of the people be taken at the municipal elections on the park proposal and got a vote of five to two in support of his motion The sol icitor however ruled out the form of motion as unacceptable and it was dropped Proposals Deferred As early as February the mayor reported to council on a meeting held With Leather representatives concerning an agreement in connection with the addition to the disposal plant Several times since that date this matter has been raised but noth ing of a decisive nature has tak en place although in the month of August last a construction by law at an approximate cost of was approved and sub mitted to the municipal board In the month of January the question of the removal of the hydro poles on the west side of street was discussed and in March the sum of 29S0 was authorized for their removal The poles are still there however An important proposal initiated by DeputyUeeve Murray In the month of July called for the pay ment of on the part of sub- dividers opening up new subdi visions the payment to be ap plied to local municipal purposes such as new school costs Such an arrangement is In force neighboring munici pality but the town solicitor ruled against its legal feasibility here in Aurora One of the mast frustrating events during the year con cerned the new subdivision pro posal by Mr Gordon Timbers Approved in Us preliminary stag es it was eventually rejected for reasons fully reported at that time Outstanding Event The outstanding munici pal event Of was the carried out by order of the previous council of though most of the members of the I9f4 council were also mem bers of its predecessor And the time when that fond affection is seen at its best or felt at its best under the mistle toe is New Years eve and New Years lay Man its a time they have there where the bracken grows in summer time and the snow lies deep in winter time People who dont know Scotia think its a cold and bar ren land where theres but hard work and folks busy grabbing the sheckles True Scotland isnt Italy where the in habitants lie around in the sun and get all baked up looking like walnuts out of the oven What Men What Lassies You should see the men they breed down there Fine big fel lows with lusty chests and legs which can carry them for miles Theyre used to travelling on Shanks Pony if you get what I mean Theyre not mollycod dled fellows that have to be wrapped up in fur coats to keep out the cold Why a real Scotsman likes to feel the wind whistling through his beard He goes out to meet it to greet it like a bridegroom welcoming his bride If he feels a bit cold he just starts walking again to get his blood circulat ing And a Scotsmans blood is real blood And the Scotch lassies Where in this world of humans will you find such lassies as they breed in dear Scotland Talk about sunkissed oranges from California You should see the bloom on the cheeks of the Ayrshire lassies Their only makeup is the beauty they in herit from the grand air that flows through the land of hon est men and lasses New Years Eve Christmas is Christmas la Scotland but New Year is New Year We Scotsmen celebrate WH YOUR MONEY GOES Extracts From Town Accounts Christmas more as a religious occasion than a time of merry making Certainly we look after the- youngsters- They hang their stockings up in the chimney piece fur old Father Christmas to fill as he comes down the chimney Wo have a good time at Christ mas but New Year is the sea son for a good spread and toasts galore Ever heard of first- footing Thats the time when a neighbor comes to wish you A Happy New Year The first man over the doorstep when the clock has struck midnight is the firstfoot Happy New Year he calls out and next thing he does is to kiss the wife or your daughter Theres a lot of tramping to and fro at the crack of the New Year in Scotland Visits here and visits there everybody wishing each other a Happy New Year It docs happen some times that by the time theyre through some of them dont know whether its the old or the yea r they re celebrating But whats it matter it only comes once a year Just Musing So Ive just been musing on memories of the old land One does that sort of thing around this time of the year Especially if one is seated in a warm air- conditioned room in Canada Perhaps Ive been writing with my tongue in my cheek For one must admit it baby its cold out there in Scotland Cauld and on New Years eve Be that as it may lit be drink ing a toast on New Years day to the land of the heather and the shortbreads A royal Cana dian just thinking back to the Motherland Yes Sir Well tak a right guide- for the days of Syne Happy New War Every body ARENA COSTS Murray Charges Town Has Had To Borrow For Arena At regular meeting of the town council on Mon day December 0 DeputyReeve Murray the amount of CO shown on the account as ah cost and said he would like to bring the matter up new business At the new business stage Mr Murray said that the people of the town ought to be informed on few facts concerned with arena expenses pointing out that sum tor arising fcv Hurricane J had He ai In older that Aurora taxpay ers may know how sonic of their money is spent Aurora News Page regularly publishes extracts of major expenses from town council minutes The following are from the accounts as on Decern her Aurora thinner Company printing etc Aurora Hydro street disposal plant waterworks 1 etc Annua Hydro Kite Coin it street lighting Disposal plant water works etc Hell Telephony Co K17 Pipe re ward St Comer In surance Agency old public school assistants bond Charles A Fry Insurance and Mail debenture verlisement Municipal World Ltd election supplies Stiver fuel fire hall James Wilson sewer excavations Wilson Hardware wa terworks property etc It Underbill insurance old public school truck fire truck clerks Public liability total Police Dent Pat rick lire chiefs convention ex penses Streets and Son Aurora Milling Co sill 4IIJS Andys Simp sign painting chman Cartage fills etc Cum on and Hi iggs SI sidewalk work Hose and Hit ml Frank Warren Paving mixes J Km Western street contract works lino Ton sil net ion Co Tyler Si Janus Wilson water excavations at the present time there was a I making he deficit of owing town The arena board it be silt the town for wages Referring to new floor that had been put tire deputy- reeve said that according to the paper across the street this had been paid for by the board of trade At this moment said Mr Murray the board of hasnt paid one cent of the money and the tow has had to borrow money from the bank pay interest 011 it to meet costs Serious Situation Councillor Davis asked the money had paid by the board of trade and Reeve Cook said it appeared a serious situation and suggested there should be an in view the deputy reeve tomcats Councillor Jones said the mates for repairs were found to be too tow adding hat investi gation had shown certain parts of the arena structure to be in a rotten condition He ad vied that one 1 lib tec of the board of I ratio bond had refused to a release and this had held up tin payment nil the new floor Councillor Mid the money was now in the bank and the amount promise by the board of trade would be refund ed to the town The mayor it should he understood that was duo debenture Included In the Make It A Meet Your Ft odd The D HESS ID A Stow Two Vance St Aurora Calls Telephone PA intervals at both schools also at old public school now occu pied by an outside school but still our responsibility At all these drills good time was made in evacuation ami in the inspec tions recommendations were made where necessary FIRE REPORT Record Of Events For 1954 The following report from the Aurora depart merit fire chief Harry Jones and secretary Osborne was presented to council at meeting on December The mayor ami council expressed of the report and the work of the Aurora fire brigade The report states During year we had calls made up a follows King township Whitchurch calls call town of Aurora call Of town colU we had ire fallow Thompson store Storey J Holder bid fair of la connection I Html J WILLIS The Drug Store News agent Tobacconist Business Founded TttephOM FA AURORA BOOK MUSIC SHOFPE Stationery Greeting Cards etc For Era Classified Ads MISSES WOOD Yarn St Aaron BRING ALL YOU PROBLEMS FURS TORONTO For Friendly Personal Service Shop At JOHN MORNINGS DRUG STORE MlUM pa Lute aetectioa to Budget tenia if Cold Stent SATISFACTION ft