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Here’s CLIFTON WEBB, dressed in the undergraduate garb which he wears in the hit show “Mr. Belvedere Goes -’To College.” one of the holi- day season offerings at the Richmond Theatre. Co-starrlng “Oscar” owners Ray Milland and Teresa. Wright with Brian Donlevy. no mean comedian himself, “The Trouble With Wt» men” is played to extract every last chuckle in Arthur Sheekman’s laugh-loaded screenplay. Volumes have been written about what is wrong with the female of the species, but Paramount's version is the most enjoyable discourse on that age-old problem. When two Academy Award win- ners get together, just for laughs, and they’re handed a vehicle pack- ed with hilarious situations, the result is a fine picture like Para- mount’s “The Trouble With W0 men," That outstanding hit, “Mr. Be]- vedere Goes To College" and Dennis Morgan in “The Singing Dude">in a Technicolor featurette make up the program. Starring- Shirley Temple with Webb, the Twentieth Century-Fox comedy shows Webb, who is be« coming more and more difficult to distinguish from the self-styled genius he has created, enrolling at Clemens College where he proposes to finish the four year course In one year. Because he never took time out from his “genius-ing” to get a de- gree and since he is eligible to re ceive an award of $10,000 as soon as he can get one, the cosmopolitan Mr. Belvedere is most anxious to {:0 through the school with no regard for secondary pleasures usually «updated with college education. ‘ Yet the amazing Mr. Belvedere Women the “biggest man on the campus" without half trying. The college’s best athlete, he’s a. four. letter man, no less. He is the most brilliant student in school â€" the All-American genius of every. thing could be nothing else. In addition, he creates the “Belvedere Bump,” while his impeccable at- tire wins him acclaim as the Ichool’s best-dressed student. Shirley Temple, however, re- mains to be convinced in the film. In trying hard herself to provide for her infant son (she’s the wid- ow a! a war-iost flyer) she inter- views the great Belvedere and manages to get him in some hot water that is mighty embarrassing for even Belvedere. A featurette, “Smooth Sailing" and Ray Milland in “The Trouble With Women," form thc Richmond Theatre’s bill on January 4 and 5. A midnight show 's on at the Richmond in the early morning hours of January 2, starting at 12.05 am. Tickets for it can be bought in advance. There will be a. holiday matinee at 2 pm. on January 2 with the regular shows starting on the evening of that day-at 5.30 pm. and on the 3rd at the regular hours. In the Technicolor production by Paramount, Painless Peter Potter, (Bob Hope) a mid-west corres- pondence school dentist, is chased out of town when he pulls the wrong tooth. At the same time Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) has to get out of town in a hurry. Jane is a two-gun girl working under cover for the government to track down a gang of renegades who are smuggling guns and am- munition to the Indians. She de- cides to use Painless as bait to bring the bad man out a-shooting. To accomplish this she marries the {poor sucker, gets him into all kinds of jams and lets him â€" and everyone else â€"- believe that he shoots his way out of them, when in reality she does the shooting. Painless is convinced he's a hero and the villians‘are convinced he’s the government agent. He begins to act accordingly, swaggering in- to more trouble than even Jane can get him out of. He and Jane are captured by Indians and ‘then‘ it is up to him to effect their res-i cue. He accomplishes this in a riotous way, rounding up the ren- egades and turning Jane's deris- ion into affection. “Paleface” starts ofi’ the New Year’s holiday programs at the Richmond Theatre, showing there on December 30 and 31. A synopsis of pictures to be shown locally in the near future, for the information of movie-goers. During the pre-Christmas peak five of the post office’s big canvas bags full of letters left for Toronto every day, as compared to half a. sack a day in normal times, Twen- ty-five sacks of parcels were des- patched daily as compared to the normal two. Even in spite of the fact that his office now has a permanent addit- ional member of the stafl’ it re- quired five additional clerks to handle the Christmas mail, Post- master Savage reported. “It was the best staff I ever had,” he said. Volume of mail was at least fifty per cent up over any previous year, he added. Incoming sacks of parcels dur- ing- ordinary periods number two or three, but during the holiday season they piled up as high as! thirty-five in a day. Seven times‘ the number 01 incoming lettersl “What would your mouth taste like after you had licked 90,005) one cent stamps?” â€" a member of his staff wanted to know. That is the number sold in the Hill’s post office during the period before Christmas -â€" to say nothing of the threes and fours and the larger de- nominations required for the par- cels Which came into the office in a veritable flood. Last year’s one cent stamp sales amounted to 70,- “It looked for a time as if every man, woman and child in Rich- mond Hill was getting five hun- dred and fifty letters apiece,” said Postmaster A. G, Savage, describ- ing the Christmas rush to The Lib- eral. Now with Mrs. Howe, the former Daisy Barlow of Tor- onto, he is taking a keen interest in local affairs, in the health of the community, and in bringing up the one-year-old and the two-year-old girls who make up the Howe family. Es- pecially concerned with the welfare of those with whom he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, he is one of the charter members of the Richmond Hill Wing of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association and also treasurer of that or- ganization. Like everybody else whose picture has appeared in the "Know Your Neighbour” series, the doctor is a “fan” for the district. “We’ve met nothing but kindness since we’ve been here,” he says. A few minutes’ conversation with him makes it quite evident that he believes in high professional and ethical standards and, as a matter of fact, he doesn’t hesi- tate to pay tribute to his fellow workers in the area for their corglzeption of the duty which medical men owe to the general pu 1c. He sums up his reaction to Richmond Hill and its sur- rounding territory in a few words. “Mrs. Howe and I are, we hope, here ‘for keeps? " he says. The photograph of Dr. Hovile, like all others in this series, was taken by Edmund Soame, j‘The Studio,” 1720 Avenue Road. Keenly interested in research, Dr. Howe spent his vaca- tions during his student years in adding to his medical know- ledge. Two years were devoted to study in the Department of Physiology in the University of Toronto under the famous Dr. CharlesH. Best, who, it will be remembered, was the col- laborator of Sir Frederick Banting, in the discovery of in- sulin. Three more summers were Spent at Western in the same type of work. He was interning at the Western Hospital in that city when war broke out. The next four years were spent as a medical officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during which time he served in many different stations. Following the war he saw something of the rougher side of a doctor’s life while practising in the mining areas of Nor- thern Quebec. From that rocky country he went to the clay belt of Southern Ontario, following his profession in the Sarnia area for a couple of years. One of Richmond Hill’s younger and newer professional men is DR. W. D. HOWE, pictured above, a resident of the community for the last year and partner with Dr. J. P. Wil- son, the village’s Medical Officer of Health. Former Christmas Mail Records Beaten By 50% In Local Office Before he came to the Hill to make it his home Dr. Howe had seen quite a bit of Canada. Born in Toronto, he was educated in the University of Toronto schools and the University of Toronto. KOLUME LXXI. NUMBER 26. Know Your Neighbour @1113 Efihmmk Charges of careless driving and of failing to remain at the scene of the accident have been laid against Charles Trussell of Mill Road, Richvale, following an accident on Yonge Street a mile south of Richmond Hill on the afternoon of Christmas Day, in which a. taxi driven by Cecil Wilson of 28 On- ‘tario Street, Newmarket, was also involved, Severe damage to Wil- son’s taxi was caused. The accident was investigated by P. C. MacAneul of the Ontario Provincial Police. And, while other citizens were experiencing that “morning after" feeling on December 27, the Rich- mond Hill post office was suffering from the same complaint. A v01~ ume of mail as large as that of any day in the week before Christ- mas descended on it. In spite of the mountains of mail which flooded all local post offices the work was handled with astonishing speed. Many comments have been heard locally about the efficient service rendered by post office officials and especially about the good-humoured way in which that service was rendered by over- loaded employees. Careless Driving Charge Follows Yonge St. Crash were received, amounting to an average of three and a half sacks daily,as compared to the normal half-sack. “In Essentials, Unity: In Non-Essentials, Liberty; In All Things, Chariby.‘ RICHMOND HILL, 0NT., THURSDAY,DECEMBER 29, 1949 Christmas Cleanup Causes Chimney Clouds Firemen Find Friend Frightened Foolishly Christmas wrappings, ever- present sauce of danger at the festive seasm, gave Richmond Hill firemen a. run on the after- noon of December 27. But it was a case )f ‘love’s labour lost.’ A zealous notorist saw a lot of smoke pourhg' from a chimney at Langstaff. concluded that it was on fire, and turned in an alarm. These officers are pulling no punches in telling the people of Richmond Hill that the re-build- ing of the village’s name in con- nection with hockey is up to them In a. recent statement they say â€"â€" “We are g’ettzng to a stage where it is up to you, the people, to de- cide if this hockey project is to be a. success or not. We need your support very badly both in atten- dance at games and through any contributions you care to give. We acknowledge that if it had not been for the support of the pub- There are five teams in the club this year. Four of them are ban- taxns and take in youngsters under the age of fifteen. A midget team, which takes in boys up to sixteen, is entered in the OHMA. The four town teams are each looked after by a vice-president and the midget team is being man- aged by Harold Mills and coached by Tim Saul. All players are pu- pils at Richmond Hill schools. That, officials of the Richmond Hill Hockey Club say, depends largely upon the amount of sup- port given to clubs in the local league. Supply of players for senior teams in the future is de- pendent to a large degree upon the encouragement given to youngsters today, they point out. An attendance charge Will be made at games, officials of the club say, as its capital does not permit it to carry on wichout. De- pendence is also placed on public contributions, which for the past three years have helped keep the club going. The recently-elected officers of the club are E. Barrow, president; H. Saul, D. Mills, B. Jones, B. Ellis, vice-presidents. Harold Mills is secretary-treasurer. Is Richmond Hill to regain its old place in the hockey world? Fear of a repetition of the finanâ€" cial disasters of the early ’30’s is prevalent in the majority of Tor- onto’s suburban municipalities, says the report of the Toronto committee on Metropolitan Prob- lems, a digest of which appears in this issue. Pointing out that by 1935, ten of the traditional thirteen municipal- ities in the Toronto metropolitan area were in default, the report declares that with the exception of the city proper, every municipality in the metropolitan area is faced with a whole host of financial problems related to the provision of municipal services, particularly educational facilities. “The committee found that the increase in expenditures in the past few years has been due in the main to expanding population and consequent need for expanded municipal services of every kind,” the report says. “A return to the employment conditions of the 1930’s would involve most munici- palities in tremendous financial burdens which can scarcely be borne with present revenue sour- ces,” Future Of Lecall Hockey Dependent On Citizens Emphasize ,Club Officials Expanding Population,Services Creating Hazardous Situation In Suburban Area, Report Says Discuss Development Inclusion in Metropolitan ‘ Districi Urged For Townships & Villages When the firemep reached theldamage of any kind. Dealing with debenture debt, the scene they actually had to be directed to the residence supposed to be in danger and there found that the tidy mistress of the house was cleaning up the Christ- mas debris and burning the wrappings of the parcels. Appar- ently the household had been luck- y enough to win a profitable visit from Santa and the wrappings Looking for something? Then try a Liberal Classified Ad, It works fast â€" it’s inexpensive. Telephone Richmond Hill 9. A particular interest is attached to the card because it recalls a day before stop and go signs controlled traffic on Yonge Street and also because the card was designed by Thornhill’s “own” artist, Mr. Thoreau MacDonald. ' - Pictured above is one of the series of Christmas cards whlch for several years have been sold by the choir of Trin- ity Anglican Church, Thornhill. 7 _ report says that total debenture 'debt declined from the high point of the early 1930’s in every mun- icipality with the exception of Lea- side. This trend has been largely reversed in the past two or three years with the expansion of edu- cation facilities in particular, add- ing substantial amounts to debt in Etobicoke, Leaside, North York and Scarboro. lie in the past we_ should not be as far ahead as we are today, and we ask that you stick with us and we will try and produce good hockey in Richmond Hill. Our aim is to have Richmond Hill as hockey- minded as it used to be years ago and to give those who are sports- ‘mvinded good hockey at home. Con- tributions to the club will be grate- fully received by any of its of- ficers.” The report emphasizes that mun' icipalities which are expanding rapidly in population are bearing a disproportionate share of overall growth in the metropolitan area in terms of increasing expenditures and expanding debenture debt in relation to their budget base. “It is expected that debt expan- sion will continue and in some municipalities total debt debenture will return to the levels of the late 1920’s or early 1930’s,” the report continues. “This is the special significance of the financial problem in these municipalities,” the report states. “This problem will ultimately be resolved through the supervision of Ontario Municipal Board, exer- cised as it is, most directly upon the capital financing programs of municipal governments.” Ofiq-z'flm 1}L%a/¢14189o% ’Bw w iaeor but In the [midst of their big job of distributing Christmas presents for everybody else, members of Richmond Hill’s post office staff were remembered .by the H. J. Mills Company. A gift of a doz- en roses went to each of them. Several sites are said to be'un- der"’consid'€rztion. One of them' is south of highway No. 7, on the east side of Dufferin Street. Vaughan Township council is with- holding permits while the matter is being discussed with the De- partment of Highways and the Toronto and York Roads Commis- sion. Likelihood of an open-air drive- in theatre in the district, with three firms seeking permission to locate in Vaughan Township, is indicated. Roses Appreciatad By Post Office Workers Drive-In Theatre In Vaughan Twp Being Considered First prize went to vet- eran newspaperman Geo. James of the Bowmanville 'As this issue of The Lib- eral goes to press an- nouncement has just come from Vancouver that its editorial on “Local Munici- pal Govemment” has been awarded second place for all Canada in the competi- tion sponsored by the trade publication “The Canadian Weekly Editor.” “Know Your Neighbour" is the caption given to The Liberal’s leading pictorial feature. Designed to pro- mote friendship and know- ledge of each other among citizens in the district, it has this week taken on a new role â€" that of reunit- ing friends. Pictured two weeks ago was Ernie Durie of Richâ€" vale, proprietor of one of that community’s busin- esses. A copy of the is- sue containing his photo came into the hands of a man in Scarboro â€" an old friend of Ernie’s. The couple had not seen each other for twenty years. And, in a few minutes, that friend had Mr. Durie on the line, to say “How do” after the lapse of a couple of de- cades. Friends Reunited FLASH ;he Powe ant JANUARY 5 â€" The Januarylum 1| hopéd JANUARY 3 â€" A meeting of the Women’; Christian Temper- ance Union will be held in the Women’s Club Room of the Mun- icipal hall on Tuesday, January 3, at 8 pm. This is a youth meeting with oratorical, elocution meeting JANUARY 3 â€" The first meet- ing of the year of St. Mary’s An- glican W. A. will take place in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 3, at 2.30 pm, Officers are re- quested to have ready their an- nual reports. c1w26 DECEMBER 31 â€"- Aurora Bad- minton Club New Years Eve dance at Aurora High School Denny Berri and his orchestra. $4. per couple. Everyone welcome. Running through the entire re port are references to the prob- lem of mounting educational costs in the metropolitan area. The re- port is broken down into classifi- cations such as housing, police and fire protection, education, health an welfare, traffic and transpor- tation, etc. In each case a sub- committee states the problem and concludes with its findings. “The metropolitan problem is not one but many interrelated problems which develop an become more complex as rapidly expand- ing metropolitan communities seek to adjust outgrown forms of or- ganization and administration,” the report declares. " Educational Costs These new boundaries include the following incorporated com- munities: East York, Etobicoke, Markham, North York, Scarboro, Toronto, Toronto-Gore, Vaughan, York, Forest Hill, Long Branch, Markham, Port Credit, Richmond Hill, Stouffville, Streetsville, Swansea, Woodbrid‘ge, Leaside, Mimico, New Toronto, Weston and the City of Toronto. “Within this area, the degree of urbanization and the density of population vary, but are increas- ing year by year,” the report de- clares, “To an increasing extent, people in the Toronto metropoli- tan area work in one municipality and live in another.” Municipalities Included In giving its own definition 0 what should constitute the metro politan area â€"â€" 23 municipalities instead of 13 â€" the committee says it is strongly of the opinion that adequate planning during the next two or three decades re- quires : “substantial degree of flexibility in g :the "planning “area! The-area advocated" is: On the east, the eastern boundary of East York; on the north, the northerr boundaries of Markham and Van ghan Townships; on the west, th northern and western boundaries of Toronto-Gore and Toronto Townships in Peel County; on the south, Lake Ontario. The committee describes the present governmental structgr of the metropolitan area as “wt moded and prseenting a confusm picture of rigidities.” Definition With the release of the report of the Committee on Metropolitan Problems of the Civic Advisory Councilof Toronto, however, the situation changes radically. In its 86-page‘ report, covering more than twelve months’ study, the committee advocates the formation of a greatly enlarg- ed metropolitan area which would include twenty-three municipalities instead of thirteen and which would bring the townships of Vaughan and Markham and the municipalities of Richmond Hill, Markham, Woodbridge and Stouffville in- to the metropolitan picture. I I". Report Of Toronto Group Says Present Government Outmoded And Confused Until recently the proposal to create a “metropolitan area” embracing Toronto and adjacent suburbs was a mat. ter of general interest to residents of Richmond Hill, Vaugh- an and Markham townships, but without a direct impact. The report does not include any actual recommenda- tions for bringing the new area into being. These will be made in a second section of the report, expected to be pub- lished in March or April. Part one is intended to provide a. basis for discussion. ‘ with ora ical num Y C HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 Coming Events JANUARY 5 â€"â€" The regular monthly meeting of the afternoon auxiliary of the W,M.S. of the United Church will be held in the S‘. S. Room Thursday, January 5, at 3 pm. This will be the annual meeting of the Women’s Mission- ary Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet at the home of Mrs. J, Beresfo'rd, Arnold St., on Thursday, January 5, at 3 o’- clock. 1w26 JANUARY 5 â€" The Evening Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church will meet at the home of Mrs. D. McGillivray, 4 Centre St, at 8 pm. A good speaker will address the meeting. at 3 pm. Thi: meeting when past year, will Our pas Year m Efforts to encourage co-opera- tive arrangements in the field of housing between municipalities’ in the metropolitan area have failed. so far At the heart of the prob lem is the cost of municipal ser- vices, particularly education, in re- lation to the tax revenues derived from new houses. Because of the costly demand for educational 1a- cilities, some municipalities are reluctant to encourage large-meals housing Within their Boundaries. and are passively discouraging such development. The difficulty of servicing the large number of new houses has led, in many cases, to some of the basic municipal services not being provided. While recognizing the fact that govern- ment action is being sought to improve housing without the bur- den falling entirely on the mun- icipalities, the demand for improv. ed housing as a social objective still has to be met substantially by the municipal taxpayer, the property owner and indirectly, by the tenant, Education The variation in school costs and school expenditures shows that the cost of education is fall. ,ing more heavily on those areal ‘with less ability to pay. It is the opinion of the subcommittee that education in public and high schools is a matter of more than local concern and therefore, there is justification for seeking some means of equalizing school oppor- tunities and the burden of school taxes. As a result of the activ- ities of planning authorities, cer- tain areas are earmarked for in- dustry and others for retail trade and still others for residential use. This allocation has the effect of compelling one school adminis- tration body to finance its program almost exclusively from taxes on workingmen's homes, whereas an adjoining school administrative 51" ea will have a large industrial as- sessment. It should be noted that artificial barriers, for example, municipal boundaries, are inter- fering with the best location of schools and with the free move- ment of pupils to classroom space which is at present available. (Continued on page 3) ’ Here are the findings in conden- sed form: . Housing ‘ They provide the answer to many problemsâ€",those inexpensive insertions which help you find the lostâ€"put you in touch with buyers and sellers, as Occasion requires. I‘hey're easy to place.- Just telephone Richmond era; 6 for. the NOTk of the be reviewed and eted and installed. 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