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Editors Note The selection of players for amateur hockey teams confuses us at tiroes We often hear of members of a community ho ckey team being brought in from all parts of the country A good commentary on the subject appeared in the form of a subheading in the Port Dover Maple Leaf of March The story reported the defeat of the Port Dover Intermediate B team by Delhi The follow ing was the subheading in cluding punctuation as used by the Maple Leaf Last Nights Game Help Up Until Delhi Players Ar rived From People in a rural community often will recall an incident in the past associating it with a certain individual An East Gwillimbury resident was calling an incident that was as sociated with the late Mrs- Steeper Era and Express correspondent who died last week The particular fact that struck in the East Gwillimbury friends mind was that Mr and Mrs Steeper lost their barn twice through fires caused by lightning striking the same spot twice The Steepers had fanned north of Mount Albert before moving to town That farm occurrence- dis proves the old theory that lightning never strikes twice in the same The story also tells of the Steepers strength of character because they re built each time They built the third barn on the founda tion- k It is difficult to find good old fashioned journalism these days During the old days there were two newspapers in Newmarket and each of the two editors would drop strong comments in his paper about the other editor or the other paper We still see a bit of good old fashioned journal ism on our Aurora Page Probably a good reason why we no longer see much of it is the modern attention to the laws of libel It is recalled that many From the Files of 25 and 50 Years A years ago one of the editors in Newmarket made a comment about the poor class of mach inery at the other place after his opposition paper had been published late- Trie second editor wrote the following week that if the first editor did not have such a long nose which he did have he wouldnt be sticking it into other peoples business so much The first editor returned the following week to say that he agreed that it was a disadvan tage to have a long nose par ticularly when one was in close proximity to the number two editor who was noted for his bad This happened so long ago that the telling of it will hurt no one What reminded us of this story was the Port Dover Maple Leaf which we mentioned above That editor has been carrying on a long drawnout feud with the editors at the neighboring communities of and near the Lake Erie north shore The feud started if we remember correctly over the Port Dover campaign to split the local political riding Here is a recent sample this weeks Record Editor Laird suggests that the Maple Leaf copy only the editorials of Bruce Pearce in the Reformer lest some other paper should dare to take a swing at Lairds idol our good friend Jimmy But we cannot follow this advice Theres lots of things we do not see eye to eye with with the editor of the Reformer lie falls from boats while fishing and we believe we heard it straight that Brace had to pay a fine in Port Dover for speeding or some thing And thats not good to get caught at the very act that one is preaching to the general public not to do Of course to set things straight Bruce did come across with to our artificial ice appeaL Just where would an editor get that kind of dough There is a lot of vinegar in that piece of writing Th Express Htrafd Thursday of Main St ay Era cm Express Subtcriotior 4 for two for on mat advance Smglm arm each Member of Class A of Canada Canadian Association and Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Stortd Mail Pott Ottawa JOHN t CAtOUNE Sport IAWKENCE Job and THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFIVE March If Seam of Coal Unearthed in Vicinity of Cochrane Coal has been found in Northern Ontario in the area to be served by the new and extension drilling operations in the area Climaxing months of tedious a report reached Toronto on Monday that Provincial geolo gists had struck a seam of real coal not lignite near Coch rane According to reports from the scene of the drilling operations test drills were made one mile and a half west of the spot where earlier evi dences had shown lignite Af ter working through an over burden of feet the drills struck coal thought possibly bituminous which extended for a depth of feet in the lo cation tested The parade of Essex cars up and down Main St last Sat urday morning caused consid erable interest although many people vondered what it was all about A truck carried a new blue car followed by three other new cars of different col ors and slips were distributed to people throughout the dis trict for them to guess how many miles the three cars would travel during the seven days tour of Toronto district including Brampton on the west Newmarket on the north and West Hill on the east hours a day winner of a new Essex coach abso lutely free was Mrs Wood To ronto IMS More telephone wires A large gang of men are here en gaged in stringing three new telephone wires from Toronto to One of the new lines vill be run into the office here Owing to the increase of through business from this place considerable difficulty at times has been experienced in getting Toronto Messrs Hunter Bros build ers and contractors visited the Industrial Home last Friday ev ening and gave an enjoyable entertainment consisting of in strumental and vocal music which was greatly appreciated by the inmates and also the management The usual spring demand for houses is being made and with small prospect of meeting it There will be more doubling up of families than ever before here A large surprise party com posed of residents of Vonge St and other friends took the home of Mr Isaac Armitage by storm on Tuesday night and had a delightful time It vas a kind of farewell for the in mates as Mr David Rogers and bride leave for the NorthWest next week Mr and Mrs Wal ter left for the city this week and Mr and Mrs Isaac move to Col lins corner shortly after liv ing for many years on the county thoroughfare CANADA US STUDY CIVIL DEFENCE Ciudtii VS defence preparation and the of this firm vegetable cellar Into service during excretes in The S federal Civil advised all in the event of an attack to set below the of the ground to ovoid from the bombs fallout CLARIFIES ASSESSMENT BALANCES A talk given to the members of town council and interested citizens Monday night clarified a number of problems and hitherto unanswered questions about New market and its development The talk was given by an expert who was Gueiphs industrial promotion man from until the beginning of this year In that time Guelph which had seen little growth in previous years had a net grain of industries His talk provided information that can be of great value to civic leaders Earlier this year Newmarket adopted a new policy for the time being to stop all residential development until additional industries can be acquired for Newmarket The reason for this move by council was that residential assessment has been growing and industrial assessment has not It has been an accepted fact that residential property costs the whole municipality more in public services than does indus trial property For the first time specific figures have been sup plied to council showing the difference in these types of assessments in any municipality a house consumes percent more in services than it pays for in taxes commercial property consumes about 10 percent less in services than it pays for industry consumes seven or eight percent less than it pays for These figures show in a simple way why a great residential development in a community without com mercial and industrial development will cause taxes to soar We were surprised to learn that commercial property is more economical than industrial property in terms of municipal service costs Industry more than makes up the difference because of its payroll to workers which in turn supports the commercial establishments COULD BE A FOREST HILL A suggestion was made this week by a reader of this newspaper that some citizens if they thought about the subject for awhile might say that we do not need to go after industry Why all this talk about indus try which we may not be able to get when we could promote Newmarket in another direction was his question His opinion was that Newmarket should pro mote itself as being the best place in which to live as having the best residential areas the best fresh air the best shopping centre the best schools the best everything for a family His idea is best expressed as follows So what if we have high taxes People will be willing to pay them for the advantages of living in a good residential town We can see that there is merit in that idea if a new community is being started from scratch But in an old established town such as Newmarket there would be immediate problems there may lie wealthy who would be willing to build a high coat sub division and pay very high taxes But they alone would not pay the costs the costs would be spread over the whole community old and new and many established residents are not prepared to pay higher taxes Mr Edward A former indus trial promotion expert said that a municipality has a choice It can be a Forest Hill Village without industry where people must pay exorbitant taxes or it can try to progress like most towns by encouraging industry While we can see the argument of our friend men tioned above it would seem that Newmarket decided long ago that it was not to be a Westchester or a For est Hill Village And Newmarket town council has decided to continue along that same policy to strive to maintain a well balanced community with residential commercial and industrial development While things seem to at a standstill at the moment work is being done by the town councils committee on industrial pro motion In long run Newmarkets future seems bright being in an industrialized part of the province It will be close to the Seaway and likely will benefit from the progress that will follow its completion In the meantime there is much more work to be done WILL BE FORCED TO COOPERAT Our opinion that Newmarket should cooperate and work with neighboring municipalities in the matter of development expressed in editorials last month was borne out by Mr In effect he said that no matter what the town may do to stop residential development it will continue outside the town limits in the neighboring municipalities Newmarket can refuge to sell its services to out side subdivisions now but eventually it will be forced to annex these builtup areas or at least provide them with services Outside subdivisions may temporarily provide their own septic tanks but an overloading of a builtup area with septic tanks can cause a serious health problem With East Gwillimbury for instance Newmarket eventually will be forced to cooperate on a sewage disposal scheme J GARBAGE SERVICE f The chief grievance voiced by citizens this week concerned the garbage pickup service Many resi dents put out garbage for the Monday pickup and found that there was no service until Tuesday On many streets dogs had looted the containers and rubbish was strewn over boulevards and on the pavement We have not yet heard of the reason for the delay in the service Properly covered garbage containers it may be argued will prevent the dogs from disturbing the gar bage But the lifetime of a good garbage can is limited After the cans are banged against the edge of the dis posal truck and the lids heaved back on the boulevard for a few weeks the chances of getting a lid to stay on properly are slim MUNICIPAL COMPOST A regular news letter published by the Canadian Mothercraft Society and edited by Miss Kate Miles has a special Soil and Health section A rapidly expanding town which we were told is facing the ab solute need of a sewage disposal system is discussed in the March issue Sufficient has been written and said over the past few years about organic methods of disposal and the neglect of the Law of Return in favor of pollution of streams and expensive incinerators to have penetrated the outer consciousness of many mem bers of councils and of citizens the editor says Reference is made to municipal composting now in operation in England and Scotland Australia New Zealand Holland and India several places in Britain being mentioned with various methods employed The news letter editor says that it scorns possible to utilize raw sewage and garbage collection with excellent results and no nuisance trouble if reasonable precautions are taken A proper area with water available is necessary and some simple method of separating the paper glass and metal from the ingredients for the compost heap is also needed There is no need for an activator although in some plants move elaborate equipment calls for quick methods Edmonton an elaborate plant installed and part of it is already in use Agitation against further pollu tion of the North Saskatchewan river was the cause of the move by council Where there are plants farm ers are keen on obtaining the finished compost the result of the efforts made by the municipality Con servation is progressing in this highly important direc tion ft taw Of f ice Cat Reports a Catnips By Ginger BACHELOR LADIES A Newmarket resident Miss Leonora Starr ex pressed an opinion recently which received national publicity- She had expressed a grievance to the author ities at Ottawa about the use of the word spinster on voters lists She said that an unmarried woman who kept her own house had the right to be called house keeper This week a letter was received by this newspaper from a lady in Victoria who agreed 100 percent with Miss Starrs arguments about which she read in the Vic toria press The Victoria resident said that for years she has called unmarried women bachelor ladies She writes Bachelor Lady sounds so much better Who is man that he gets the respectful name of bachelor be fore he marries I would like to know And as for being ashamed of ones age may I say I am not I was last month and I am not lucky enough to be a Bachelor Lady The objections are to the word spinster It all seems to be a problem in semantics After all a spinster is an unmarried woman over 21 in our opinion The unfortunate thing about it all is that over the years it has an undesirable connotation It is too often associat ed with old maid We know a pretty spinster down the street She is only 22 A little nonsense now and then 1 relished by the wisest men Anon Sorting over the piles of free publicity that the boss fires into the waste basket Slim said the other day Heres somethhV that I am surprised the boss has overlooked Tea For Canada Week it says here is March Thats the advertising mans department I said He says hes real Canadian now but he still drinks tea by the gallon Most folks up around Cut- tin Corners drinks tea said Slim except people what lives around the swamp and they have their own type of bever age Theres a lot in the way you make tea heat the pot first dont leave tea in the pot over night because of condensation softening it up too much and a lot of things like that said says here in this free pub licity release that it depends where you drink it said Slim Take Tibet example Them presses tea into bricks first The leaves are busted off the twigs and tossed into a cop per cauldron They adds wood ash to bring out the color too They boil er up strain off the juice and put it into a churn with salt and butter and they churn Odd I said Yep and they drink from five to cups breakfast and when the last cup is half finished they mix it with ley meal into a past Amazing That aint nothitV said Slim Burmese drink pickled tea prepared as a salad by it with garlic and some times addhV dried fish Sometimes we dont know were living I said In them early days some people didnt know what tea was when it came on the mar ket Says here a English tavern owner assumed it to be a bev erage like beer so he made it up in bulk and drew it off like beer Others boiled the leaves and served em with butter after they threw away the liquid Slim pointed out Theres a lot you can do with tea we didnt know about I said Me I prefers tea to any thing Always drank er when I was by the rods in the thirties like boil- in up a can in the open air and in a handful of tea Best drink there is fer fishin season The cup that cheers but does not inebriate they call it I said What say we drop down to the local and have a pot of tea old bean Sfinc said Slim But Peggy wont like it Coffees easier to serve and you dont have to fool around with pots and boil water Shell be sure to beef Well its tea week and shell just have to put up with it I said by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The University of California Extension division published some figures containing infor mation that makes interesting reading While it is to be rec ognized that the figures come from a long distance and may not truly reflect the situation here they are nevertheless in teresting in so many respects we are tied to the ec onomy south of us Buying habits in both countries are similar because we are exposed to the same type of national ad vertising Here are a few examples Civilian use of dairy products amounted to about billion pounds in compared to in Total cream and milk consumption is up to bil lion pounds from in Even more interesting Is the figure that shows for the period of April to September an increase in butter consump tion of seven percent while margarine sales were down six percent as compared with No commodity credit corpor ation purchases were made from September to October 28 in the States While these months are the usually low production months it is inter esting to note that for the first six months of the current mar keting year the government was asked to buy percent less than In the previous year It is expected that cheese consumption has recovered from Its low and that will bo the highest one on rec ord with pounds per person Civilian milk consumption also is up reflecting larger popula tion and larger consumption It Is even more encouraging that the expected Increase In cow population hasnt material ized It will be up about one percent between the first of January and The explanation seems to be Increased culling The bulle tin states furthermore that there was quite a response to lower prices to consumers Since no further decrease In price is to be expected from here on a more intensive sales campaign will have to take over However Increase in population will take care of some and thus the total con sumption will be higher In again It is expected that the surplus production in will be smaller than In IMC These are some hastily culled figures but they seem to a little less gloom than usually surrounds the dairy situation Many other factors such as supply weather and the branches of the farm will have their part to play But oil in all may be good a year as was from what we are told paper was better than If the Canadian surplus is no more than it is in the State namely somewhere around or three percent an Intelligen advertising campaign some cheese export now the stabilizing fund set should make our position re secure and give Ms a Income that can be stead enough to make a go of it The key to it all is advert ing and selling a job we been avoiding for so There is a lot of controvert these days concerning but coolers The pros and the con3 fly around the dairy farm But nobody has yet tried turn this into a positive for selling milk by out that no matter who pa for the cooler the consumer bound to benefit from the ext quality We firmly believe that would sell milk if the rig people spread the Idea the rig way People are quality clous tha BACK Sf AT ON AT Ml v 5 -v- i- 1 mil exciting tight- during ib on royal WtatoW port of In her tour land Prepared tor of monthlong lour the young PrlMM hat and JlWift J Margaret tt- I J J- I