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We See The Editors Corner Mayor Betugins Report ant XpHS On The Towns Business Serving Newmarket and the rural district of North York The Newmarket Era Published every Thursday at Weekly The Herald work but truthiulh be willing to repeat panel representing end of the news VeeWj from The Files Of 25 And 50 Years Ago Ian Baxter Publisher i i Caroline Ion Editor George Haikett Sports Editor council Instructed Racine Production Stefaniuk Advertising THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE TWENTYSIXTH DAY OF FE8R NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYNINE LEADERSHIP NEEDED A stale of shock has existed since Prime Minister surprise announcement on Friday of the immediate cancellation of the Arrow and Iroquois engine development program at Through this atmosphere waves of anger fear and recrimination have passed charging the already tense situation with con fusion and bitterness A V Roe officials learned of the governments termination of their contracts through radio announcements The employees at the plant were notified of the ending of their employment in a similarly terae manner Both actions are lacking the mature un derstanding which we have a right to expect from lead ers in government and manufacturing The warning issued by the prime minister on Sept that it would be national folly to maintain produc tion of the Avro Arrow was heralded by supporters and some members of the press as courageous Because of the manner in which the action was taken last week a more suitable adjective to our way of thinking would be callous But whats done is done and to date there Is a sad lack of leadership Over workmen many of them highly skilled in aeronautical engineering tech niques remain jobless with the exception of approxi mately 1200 who have been recalled this week on a tern- basis We do not consider ourselves experts in either the field of aircraft manufacturing or defense so we shall not question the governments decision to cut production of the Arrow We do question the pro cedure followed with its lack of toplevel meetings be tween government and A V Roe officials prior to the move We view with alarm the animosity which ap parently has existed between the two groups or their official spokesmen Newmarket fortunately has been hit less severely as a municipality than many towns and townships in Peel county But the potential loss to local business be cause of this cut in earning power can be estimated con servatively at a week The number of people involved in the layoff has little bearing on the suffer ing of the individual and his family Suddenly the bot tom has dropped out of his personal existence Food and clothing must be purchased for his family Mort gage payments must be met It is cold comfort for him that he meets his friends at the National Employment Because of these hardships to the involved in the payoff at and the economic prob lems they will cause in our community we add our voice to the protest regard in the sudden dismissal Alterrate employment must forthcoming limned ate plans must be laid to utilize the physical assets ac cumulated at over the past dozen years and the immensely valuable resources of our skilled workmen and technical experts We look to Ottawa for leader ship in this situation If it is lacking the federal gov ernment will be found wanting in the court of public YOUR NEWSPAPER Douglas Ambridge the aggressive head Abttibi which supplies this newspaper with newsprint ij named chairman of a committee of Canadian newsprint producers They will underwrite a research program aimed at bolstering the competitive position of US newspapers There has been no word that Cana dian newspapers will he included in this survey but they should be The undisputed claims of other advertising media are having their affect here as well as in the United States Our consumption of newsprint is small in comparison with the export figure of to five million tons in 1958 But our Canadian newspapers could use the benefits of this research a much as their wealthy neighbors to the south Roy Thomson another Canadian who the owner and publisher of the Scotsman in Scotland as well as a long list of dailies and weeklies in Canada has this to say in the Scotsman Advertiser Here is the only medium your newspaper that he public in surveys over and over have said they want with advertising not without Here is the medium that speaks a merchants message with the emphasis and in the tone of voice he chooses It Is not at he of someone elses diction or manner It docs not die a sound wave disappear with the paw ing traffic or go dark at the flip of a switch Here is a message that will last in the hands of it- recipients as long as they choose to keep it to rend and and reread It in on hand in the home to he read at any hour of the or night that suits the con venience of the reader and if there are two or ten in that family they all may read when and as they choose llr for the ad- CONSIDER NEW HOME The need for a new home for the countys aged was underscored when an of the provincial welfare department classified York Manor as substandard ac commodation The need for its replacement was recog nized by York county councillors in session at Newmar ket last week A factfinding committee was appointed to investigate the cost of a new residence type of con struction location and other related problems The county councillors accepted their responsibtlit to the senior citizens of this area They as well as every other adult in the county want comfortable pleas ant surroundings provided for them The councillors recognized their duty as elected representatives of the taxpayers by establishing the factfinding committee They by this action reasoned that no decision which will ultimately mean the expenditure of thousands of dollars should be made until a complete investigation has been conducted a report made the council and the proposal studied from every CHECK ON At this lime of year it is not unusual to hear re marks passed about persons who would rather draw their unemployment insurance benefits than work The implication is that there is no difficult I un doing this Every person who is in receipt of benefit must declare every time he receives money from the Unemployment Insurance commission that he is able ready and willing lo work Anyone refusing an offer of suitable employment likely to he disqualified from receipt of benefit To test the sincerity or insincerity of a persons declaration that he is able ready and will ing to accept work the UIC must have a suitable job opening to which lhat person can be referred Here is an area in which employers might work more closely The Commissions national employment service is designed specifically to find Ihe right worker for the employers job and the right job for the unemployed worker Matching the worker to the job is a highly skilled occupation and the has the staff to be of great assistance to employers in this Inciden tal lo providing this service to workers and employers the commission would be placed in a much better posi tion lo check on the availability for employment of claimants Canadas unemployment insurance plan was created lo help Ihe unemployed through periods of genu ine unemployment We are all losers when those who are unscrupulous abuse the plan DO IT YOURSELF The other day one of our fellow workers on this newspaper asked the owner if it were all right for him to run for office in a lotal organi7atinn v Inch has done and will continue to do a great deal for the business life of this community The answer was an unequivocal yes As the majority of our readers are aware two members of this newspapers staff are active in muni cipal government while other members a prominent should be for those who are connected with a news paper are aware of the needs of their town and the op portunities available for personal service There is a growing sense of political among businessmen It is realized thai the considered opinions of people from the business world can be a vital contribution to the welfare of a town The butcher the baker the merchant the salesman all share a com mon interest in civic government has a contri bution to make The municipal level is the best place in the world to practice the modern trend of doing it yourself If businessmen and women through their par ticipation in local government set an example of thrift of development without extravagance of progress with out confusion of political sagacitv without corruption their influence will make itself felt in every level of political activity in Canada BRIGHT BOY Napier Moore in his Financial Post ScratchPad lolls the story of the bright Russian schoolboy whose teacher said he was a year ahead of all the other child- The inspector summoned Ivan and put a question to him It was Who are the three biggest traitors in the history of the Soviet Union Ivan said Stalin And Khrushchev You are quite right said the inspector rncd to the teacher and said lie is a year 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