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Wednesday & Thursday â€" November 23, 24 Telephone Richmond Hill 500 A- ” " Shows Daily at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturdays and holidays, continuously from 5.30 pm. Saturday: Matinee at 2 pm. Doors open at 1.30 pm FREE PARKING AT REAR 0F THEATRE Entrance from Church Street. Walkway on north side of Theatre Building Friday & Saturday â€" N0vember 18, 19 GUY RORY MADISON CALHOUN Thornhill, Ont. To any person providing the name of a prospect for a Petrolane bottled gas range or hot water heater. If you know of a friend who might, be interested write or phone to us, giving his or her name and ad- dress. Friday & Saturday â€"â€" November 25, 26 Tho Petrolane Corporation Ltd. Monday & Tuesday -â€" November 21, 22 \N FREE $10 FREE Tonight, Thursday, November 17 16 Fathoms Deep ALWAYS NEWS AND A CARTOON If a sale is made you will be paid ADULT ENTERTAINMENT $10 Cash Write or telephone Telephone 251 Why not TREAT the Missus Let Her MISS the Dishes Since the 1948 budget did not include the cost of chairs for the auditorium, this was the final large expenditure in 1949. In January 350 sturdy metal and plywood chairs were purchased at a cost of $1815.50. These'chairs are conveniently stacked in a corner, in layers 15 deep, when the auditorium is used for games and physical exercise. Some are :e- assembled for the music classes and audio~visual teaching while for public gatherings 350 may be comfortably seated. Bettles Dining Room With the steady increase in school population the board was faced with the problem of provid- ing additional accommodation for the opening of school on Septem- ber 7, 1949. It was a case either of renting again the upstair room in the municipal hall, or of mak- ing a more permanent investment by equipping the extra basement room under the new addition, as a classroom: An estimate was secured and at a cost of $786.81 this was done. The walls were lined with ten-test, a pine floor was put down over the concrete, the slate blackboards moved from the sewing room, suitable board and desk lighting installed, a sand table and commodious cupboards built. A large .ventilating fan was placed in the rear wall. The caretakers painted the walls and woodwork green and grey. A teacher‘s desk and chair and for- tyâ€"five students’ desks (ten of these for upstairs classrooms) were purchased at a cost of $944.35. In this room fifteen second grade and twenty third grade pupils are comfortably sit- uated, Chairs For The Auditorium Due to overcrowding in the kin- dergarten the school board regret- fully set back the date of admis- sion to include those children who would be five years of age by Oc- tober 31, instead of December 31, as last year. The total enrolment is now 437 pupils, 49 of whom are in the kindergarten, In 1948 there were 403 children attending the school with 61 in the kindergar- ten. There is an average this year of 38.8 children in eacl. of the ten grade classrooms. New Classroom Equipment In 1948 the Markham Township ratepayers living in the Richmond Hill School Section paid $9.00 per thousand dollar assessment as their share of the public school costs. In 1949 this sum was in- creased to $17.40 per thousand. The debenture payments dropped from $4.30 per thousand dollar assessment to $1.66 per thousand in 1949. Public school mainten- ance costs rose from $4.70 to $15.74 per thousand dollar assess- ment. Increased Enrolment of Pupils In 1948 the Vaughan township ratepayers living in the Richmond Hill School Section paid $17.00 per thousand dollar assessment for school purposes. In 1949 this was increased by 4 mills to $21.00 per thousand dollar assessment. In 1948 the initial payment on the debentures was $5.60 per thous- and dollar assessment. In 1949 this dropped to $2.10 per thousand assessment. Public school main- tenance costs rose from $11.50 to $19.00 per thousand dollar assess- ment. In Markham Township In 1948 the village ratepayers paid $12.02 per thousand dollar assessment for public School pur- poses; in 1943 this jumped up to $16.81 per thousand dollar assess- ment. In 1948 the first payment on the twenty-year debentures for the new addition to the.public school amounted to $3.12 per thou- sand.dollar assessment. In 1.949 payment on the debentures has dropped to $1.56 and will continue at approximately this rate, drop- ping a little from year to year, as the assessment increases, until the debentures are paid up in 1967. Along with this decrease in de- benture costs came an increase of $6.35 per thousand dollar assess- ment in public school maintenance costs. In Vaughan Township By Mrs. J. Langstafi', (Trustee) By November 15 the village and township ratepayers are required to meet the final installment of their 1949 taxes. Concern is un- doubtedly expressed by many at the steadily increasing cest of al- ementary education. To those ratepayers who like to know where these “public school dollars” are disappearing, the school board presents the following interest-, ing facts and figures as explana- tion of the rise in the mill rate â€" a rise which has to a great extent been brought about by increasing costs in public school maintenance. In Richmond Hill Village “‘â€" Account (If Stewardship For Past Year Is Given By Public School Board Expenditures Explaine’d Open 12 noon 5.00 p.m 102 Yonge Street Hzive Dinner At 8.00 The inspector’s report contin- ues to recommend the establish- ment of an opportunity class for the exceptional children. Inquir- ies are constantly made as to when manual training will be in- cluded in the curriculum for the boys. All these items of unfinish- ed business will receive the ear- nest consideration of your board in 1950. As mentioned above, it was not possible to stretch the budget to cover the remainder of the inter- ior and exterior painting. Nor was it possible to do some much needed grading of the school grounds and laying of asphalt at the entrances and on the play- grounds. A new fence on the southern boundary of the school property is required in 1950. Next year’s budget should cover the cost of re-lighting the older class- rooms to fulfill the requirements of the Dept, of Education. While much has been accomp- lished during the past year, the job is by no means finished. With the school population at an all time high, and every classroom in use and averaging 38 pupils, it may be necessary as early as September 1950 to find additional accommodation. A committq of board members has been appomted to investigate possible sites for a new public school unit. Realiz- ing that property is rising in price, and that few pieces of land of sufficient size are available, it would seem advisable to secure land at this time to hold until the increasing population, and there- fore increased assessment, war- rants the building of a new unit. 7. An additional teacher was hired to take charge in the remod- elled classroom, The staff now consists of eleven full-time tea- chers, a part time teacher who assists the principal three half- days weekly in the eighth grade, and teaches sewing to the upper five grades one day weekly, and a music supervisor. Two caretakers continue to attend to the firing and engineering duties as well as cleaning the school and doing minor repairs. The increase in salaries in 1949 over 1948, to the teaching staff and all members of the accessory stafi, amounts to $6684.00. Looking Ahead The full-time teaching staff was given a salary increase of $120.00 per teacher with the renewal of contracts, commencing September Due to the cost of materials and the scarcity of labour, no painting was done on the exterior or in- terior of the older part of the school, during the war years. Af- ter calling for tenders a contract to paint the six old classrooms, entrances, stairways and corridors was given to Mr. J. Wardlaw Norris of Bolton at a cost of $1774.00. A variety of color schemes have brightened the rooms and halls so that they com- pare favorably with the new ad- dition. Due to the lack of funds it was necessary to leave the much needed exterior painting and re- decorating of the basement for another year. Increased Salary To Staff Drapes for the windows of the four new classrooms, to protect the pupils from heat and glare on sunny days, and inter-lined drapes for the auditorium, were purchased at a cost of $898.68. The audi- torium can now be darkened for the showing of educational films to the pupils. The new projector, bought in 1948, is used in this room and a film library has been started, In addition, noteworthy sound films from the Dept. of Ed- ucation, the Hydro-Electric Com- mission, National Film Service and the Ontario Safety League are shown from time to time to the students. Face Lifting of Old Classrooms The school board is pleased '60 report that the auditorium, in ad~ dition to its use during schoOI hours, is being regularly used weekly by the Girl Guides, the Brownies, a Cub pack, and danc- ing classes, while the Boy Scouts are taking woodworking classes in the boys’ playroom. Community organizations, by contacting the secretary of the school board, Mr. James Grainger, may arrange for the use of the auditorium in the evenings, the only charge being for the additional caretaking- en- tailed. Drapes For Auditorium And New Classrooms Auditorium In Demand PHONE 242 MODEL MODEL COMPARE THE PRICES OF THESE WITH OTHERS MODEL 19-50. Honey or limed oak, PLAYS ALL REC- ORDS AUTOMATICALLY, for the unbelievable FLEETWOOD RADIOS low price of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15950 )EL 19â€"50. Limed oak or walnut. Automatic chan- ger. Very modernistic appearance. Only .. $139.50 )EL 22-50. Very elaborate console model. Latest model 3â€"speed changer. You will want this set as soon as you hear it. Price . . . . . . . . . . . . $19995 Yerex Electric Wholesale & Retail Prices Reasonable The classified bargain counter you every week. Street planning came in for con- siderable discussion, Reeve Vern. Griffin urging the laying out of a co-ordinated plan which would ob- viate crooked and “dead. end” streets, resulting in heavy future expenditures. “It might be a smart thing for us to change all our plans,” he said in the course of the general discussion, “pushing all urban development outwards from a central point, Unionville, where water is freely available.” The council was advised that in- dustries had been looking over available sites in the area, with mention being made of one con- cern considering a $150,000. instal- lation in the district south of Richmond Hill. “We must either spend money now or spend much more later," said Councillor Bob Rae. “It is important to get industry in where we have population,” stated Dep- uty Reeve Win. Timbers. “That is not the only answer,” Consul- tant Culham advised the council.” Evidently reconciled to the fact that development along urban lines was coming so rapidly that little could be done about it except plan as fast as possible for the future councillors covered a wide range of subjects and of territory in their endeavour to find a proper solution of benefit to all classes, both rural and urban. Good water supply, he said, was of the utmost importance to the district’s controlled growth. Roads, water, industry and many other angles of township planning were discussed by members of Markham Township council at a meeting when Gordon Culham of Toronto, the municipality’s town planning consultant, considered part of the township's master plan with them, Markham Twp. Councillors Ponder Growth Upshot of the discussion was a decision to have the township en- gineer examine the situation as soon as possible, and to have him bring in a. report of cost and other factors. Under such a plan the council would advertise its intention to install the system. . Unless a size- rable number of property owners objected the sanction of the Ontar- io Municipal Board to the expend- iture would be sought and, if ob- tained, financing arranged and the work carried out. Repayment would be made by'property own- ers through their taxes over a per- iod of years. “It's up to us to give Elmwood water if we can get if for them,” said Councillor Robert Rae at a meeting of Markham Township council when, spear-headed by Reeve Vern. Griffin, councillors discussed the possibility of getting a water supply into that sub-div- ision on Richmond Hill’s southern borders at the earliest possible moment. Following that, councillors in- timated, they would give speedy consideration to having water in- stalled under a Local Improvement Plan. ‘ Again Consider Elmwood Water Supply Problem Christmas Trees Ph. Richmond Hill ORDERS TAKEN NOW MsT'oTR'ENT RICHMOND HILL HARDWARE RICHMOND HILL Phone 426 1361'33 ad page is your â€" delivered to Christmas Records Available on Columbia, Capitol and Rondo RICHMOND HILL Phone - 223-] The Hilltop Electric Ken Griffin’s Organ Music On Rondo Brother Bones New Records Now In Stock and Mr. Ford on Crystalette Goon Bones Thornhill Telephone Suh‘scrhers Mr. Harley has been authorized to accept payment of accounts and to transact all other business formerly handled at our Thornhill Business Office. This change has been made in order to provide space in our exchange building for additional equipment. RICHMOND HILL HYDRO ELECTRIC SYSTEM In order to carry out essential work on Yonge Street power to Village consumers will be interrupted from 1 to 3 p.m., Daylight Saving Time, on Wednes- day, November 23. *The following district will be affected THE AREAS EAST AND WEST OF YONGE ST. NORTH OF LORNE AND ARNOLD AVENLE HYDRO INTERRUPTION NOVEMBER 23rd 1949 Village of Richmond Hill Tempo. IMPORTANT NOTICE THE BELL TELEPHONE On and After Tuesday, November 22nd, all enquiries concerning your telephone service should be directed to: Thanks for your co-operation Mr. H. Harley, Druggist, Yonge Street, Thornhill (Telephone â€" 130) WOMW“OOOOOOOQMOMOWMM 3 Richmond Hill Telephone 5-J f WWWOMWOQW THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill. Thursday. Nov. 11, 1949 TOMENSON, SAUNDERS, SMITH & GARFAT LIMITED 12 Wellington St. E., Toronto, Ont. Phone AD. 0467 CEMENT - BRICK-LIME - TILE - ETC. Murray Building Supplies 4890 Yonge Street, Willowdale TELEPHONE WILLOWDALE 5106 Our service to you combine: expert advice on your insurance problems with a complete engineering service. District Representative 18 Elizabeth St., Richmond Hill, Ont. 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