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OLTON: A motion by council re- Jesting the Rink Committee to Llow free hockey practices for ‘ lton teams on Sunday afternoons [)still under fire by the Ministerial ssociation. RADFORD: VCBuBc'il is consnder- g the installation of a sewerage stem which would cost the vill- ge $275000. RILLIA: Police Department cost 0 the town was $22,878 during the last year. In addition $2,626 was aid for nightwa’och service. RILLIA: A total of $5,453.70 as raised from parking meters rom July 24th to the end ’of 1950. tti O INDSAY: In the annual bonspiel or the Victoria and Grey Trust rophy and prizes, first place was on by Percy Skitch and second y Leo. Rogers of Lindsay. . ' 0 t LINDSAY: Mayor Lamb opened two additional rooms in the South Ward School last week. O 0 II t AURORA: The Board of Trade Is considering the purchase of land for a park and horse show site. There are two pieces of land being considered, one at a cost of $7,000 and the other $5,000. \URORA: The new chairman or he town’s Library Board is Miss LINDSAY: The over-all assess- ment of the town in 1949 was $6,205,006 while that of 1950 was $8,367,467. This means an increase of $2,356,461, or 28 per cent. xURORA: Rev. and Mrs. Henry {awkins and son have returned to Ianada after six years of mission work in South Africa. Mr. Haw- :ins was pastor of Aurora Gospel :hurch for 3 years prior to 1115 ourney to Africa. AURORA: With additional expen- ses concerned with extensions to the Memorial Arena cost of the building has been boosted to near- ly $100,000. ' O O C O lLINDSAY: In the annual report of the Recreation Centre an in- crease in activity and a decrease in expenditure was announced. The actual surplus for last year was $2,333. * t t ‘ WOODVILLE: A new Bell Tele- phone office has been opened here ‘ with Miss Parliament of Canning- ton as supervisor. Miss Pauline Campbell who had been employed in the Richmond Hill office, has been added to the Staff. .eila Boyntonr News From Next Door ‘ MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY ' nit. LINDSAY: 'In a statement issued by arena chairman Vince Cote, it was learned that the actual operâ€" ating loss for the Lindsay Kiwanis Arena was $2,821.00 in 1950. LINDSAY: Because of ill-health Miss Allen, Superintendent of Ross Memorial Hespital here has tendered her resignation. Fifty years ago last Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. William S. Hare of Temperanceville were married at her home on the family farm a mile south of Ringwood. Since that time the former Lydia Grove and her hus- band have moved around the country quite a lot. The first three years of their married life were spent on the old Hare farm on the fifth c_onces_sion 79f Markham. Next game JLGLV Luann; v1; VA.“ A----. Vv___v,.~ , a move to Stouffville, where Mr. Hare went into the livery business. Then for a time he looked after Markham’s bread delivery, farmed again, and finally went into the re~ tail tea business, at which he spent some years. For part of that time he was in Peterborough where, with a partner, he signed a contract for the first garbage collection service instituted service in that municipality. After another turn at farming and in the produce business the couple settled in Temperanceville twenty-eight years ago, where Mr. hare ran the store â€" which has been operated by his son for the last five years â€"â€" ran a produce business and farmed. They have one son, Fred, who is returning officer for the Federal riding of North York and a daughter, Thelma (Mrs. rFrank_ Breu‘lsl: of Toronto. -,_,1 _c_.:_u,J_ an‘llAA A“ ‘Ml’u n‘IflIJ mfva nun. .L'Lulnlln u..'~.._.. Eightyâ€"five relaliv'eâ€"s guild? friends called on Mr. and Mrs. Hare at their Temperanceville home on February 20, to'of- fer their congratulations. ' chairman Of VOLUM E LXXH. NUMBER Many Prizes Given For Euchre, BridQe Staged By Firemen It looks like a prize 101' 1 every table , members of the mond Hill Fire Brigade age : A former resident of Maple, Mrs. Anna Sawdon of Matachewan, will cele- brate her 93rd birthday on February 23. While not yet able to get around very well since suffering a stroke two years ago Mrs. Sawdon is otherwise in the best of health, ,hasn’t an ache or a pain, and enjoys her radio and reading. ' Anticipating a. big attendance the firemen have made arrangements for additional accommodation in the school if, as happened last year, there is an overflow crowd which the auditorium cannot ac- commodate. dio. Highly delighted with the first results of their experiment in better lighting for the school, menu bers of the Richmond Hill Public School Board made tests of the improved lighting in the one class- room which had been selected as a “guinea. pig” when they held a special meeting this week. A series of tests carried out with a. light meter in recent weeks had disclosed that lighting was away below standard. A further test made after the installation of Lighting Experiment Ai Public School Proves Big Moneysaver FOr Taxpayer‘g Efficiency Plus Economy Former Resident 0f Maple Is 93 four Ann... u---_ . fluorescent "lights indicated e for almost of the Rich- ie are saying their euchre on Monday, Planning Under Way I'lan FlngxngShow, Arts And Crafts Exhibits Said To Be Likely TraderFair Fgafiurgs Announcement has been made by the Canadian Bank of Commerce that the branches at King and Maple, formerly operated three days a week each, will go on to a six-day-a week schedule beginning March 1. The announcement cli- maxes negotiations which have been in progress for some considerable time and in which Vaughan Township Council has taken a part by requesting the bank to extend its service in Maple. n n 1 L____ that the situation had been recti- fied as a result of the experiment and that adequate and well-v'dis ributed artificial light had been‘ secured in the test room. Equally pleasing to the trustees was the fact that their experiment had re- vealed that the work cou1<‘ be done for a very considerably smaller amount than the scheme for re- wiring originally proposed, which would have cost in excess of $5,600. Cost of installing the lights in the room amounted to approx- imately $275, they learned. With Growing appreciation of Richmond Hill’s Public Lib- rary is indicated by the large increase in circulation during 1950, revealed by figures released, at the annual meeting of the Library Board: Circulation during the twelve-month was 15,022, an increase of 25% over the year before. The largest increase was in non-fiction books. RH Library Circulation Up 25% In Year, Board Told 212 new members joined the lib- rary during the year, including ‘87 children and 125 adults. 416 new books were bought. The collection of children’s books was greatly im- proved and many worn-out bons discarded. Need for additional reference books was stressed, together with a filin cabinet for the storage of gover ment pamphlets. The Board considered that many books would give additional years of service if rebound and also felt that the approach to the library should be better marked and that a larger, lighted, sign would be an improve- ‘ment. 'The balance on hand, it was felt, might give an opportunity of carrying out some of these sug- gestions. The financial statement disclos- ed the Board’s income during the year to have been $2,783.79, in- cluding a. balance carried forward from the year before of $42.50. May Spend Additional $22,000 On Markham Tp. Roads In 1951 Proposals to hard top the part of John Street, Thornhill, in Mark- ham Township and also part of the Markham Road outside the section looked after by Richmond Hill were discussed at the recent meeting of Markham Township Council when road estimates were given a pre- liminary discussion. This would be in the nature of a test, said Councillor Charles Hooper, who pointed out that he had advocated this treatment many years ago. “We have been pouring money in- to roads year after year,” he said, “and still have nothing permanent.” Mr. H. Bryan, whq‘ has, been in r .m:. E "In Essentials, Unity} In Non six of the older classrooms needing attention the total cost would be in the-neighbourhood of $130012 a saving of several thousand dollars, The saving of this would result in trustees being able to give con- sideration to adequate blackboard lighting also, they decided. Pending approval of wiring by Hydro authorities, trustees agreed .to go ahead with the lighting of the other five rooms on the plan which the experiment had revealed to be both efficient and a. money- S aver. Major sources of income were‘ shown to be $999.97 from the municipality and a grant of $836.18 from the Province of Ontario. The grant for light, rent and heat from the municipality was $650. Mem- bership fees and fines amounted '0 ‘$176.14. $738.87 was spent on boaks dur- ing the year and $51.30 on maga- zines. Heat, light and rent (a book entry between the village and the Library Board) were $650. Sal- aries and wages amounted to $508,. 50. Supplies, insurance and simi- lar items came to $172.50. Cash on hand and bank balance at the end of the year were $662.62. - RICHMONEHILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY The meeting was presided over by Miss E. Izzard, who recommend- ed that at the next meeting a com- mittee be established to consider the salary schedule in relation to other libraries and to set up stand: ards for guidance in the future. chairman for 1951. He and other councillors empha- sized the fact that no more gravel per mile was being employed than was the case in pre-war years and' that increasing density and speed of traffic was having a, very bad effect on thoroughfares. Tentative estimates for township roads amount to $94,000 for the current year, as opposed to $72,000 in 1950. Part of the additional amount is to cover the proposed hard-topping and a considerable part is necessitated by the greatly increased wear and tear on reads. it was pointed out. Mrs. B. L. Anderson was elected charge of, the twp «essentials, Liberty} ln all Things, Charity.” Efihmmltg Local Musicians‘ Are Competitors In Annual Event A number of young local musicâ€" ians are again taking- part in an event which has become one of On- tario’s outstanding musical affairs â€" the Kiwanis Music Festival, now being held for the seventh time in Toronto. It runs from February 20 to March 4 and this year has attrac- ted entries from 165 municipalities. Competitors from as far west as Sault Ste. Marie and as far east as Montreal are attending. " Know Your Neighbour 3’ Local entries are: Thornhill 1’hyllis Wattersop, operatxé‘isolo, soprano and oratorio solo, soprano.] Richmond Hill Douglas Ramer, boys’ 3910, under 11 years and piano 5910 under 10 years; Joan Gamble, piano solo un- der 17 years, piano solo, Haydn and Mozart Sonatas, piano solo, Beethoven, girls’ under 21 years; Lois M. Perkins, girls’ solo, under 9 years; Patsy Ramer, girls’ solo, under 13 years and piano solo un- der 13 years; Joyce Perkins, piano solo'mder 13 years. Maple John Evely, piano solo, Sonatina, under 12 years; Susan Evely, piano solo, under 12 years. Langstafl' Marguerite Clark, girls’ solo, un- der 19 years and girls’ solo. under 17 years. Maple, Langstaff, Meetings Planned By Vaughan Twp. Recreational Commission A meeting will be held in Maple on March 6 to form a local com- mittee to handle recreational ac- tivities for that district, states Tom Jackson of Thornhill, chair- man of Vaughan Township Re- creational Commission. The meet- ing, which is to be held in the Masonic Hall and to which all members of the public are in- vited, takes the place of one sched- iuled originally for February 20. Councillor, conservationist, fisherman, pianist art- tist, business man, is this week’s neighbour, KEN TOMLIN, pictured abOVe. The story of the man who toppethhe polls in last fall’s municipal election in Richmond Hill_is told pnfierf‘Know _Your Neighbour" ngilligvé-(‘lflitBâ€"I'El fiage of this issue. A similar meeting will take place at Langstafl" on February 27. Residents of that area have al- ready taken preliminary steps to form a local committee, as re- ported elsewhere in this issue. The Greeks were shoeing their Cnorses as long ago as 200 B. C. , FEBRUARY 22nd 1951 Mix-Up Results Over Last Game For “Local Team Playing a game which has since been protested to OMHA_ officials ‘ Richmond Hill’s Juvenile hockey team went down to defeat in Sun- derland‘by a 7 to 1 score in the second of the twoâ€"game play-ofl’ series. They lost the first game ‘also by a 4-3 score. l Reason for the protest is said by club officials to be the man- ner in which Richmond Hill was “pushed around” in connection with the final game. After playing an extra period a week ago Friday to establish its right to the play- offs the local team went to Sunder- land on the Saturday night for the first game. It was then under- stood that the final gyame would be played in Richmond Hill on the following Friday. At least that was the understanding of Manager‘ Grant Nighswander up to 10 p.m.‘ on the Wednesday night, when he verified that with league officials. At 10.30 p.m., however, an ultima- tum was telephoned to him .â€" “Play at Sunderland on Thursday night or else forfeit the game." Highland Park News The Liberal is glad to announce the appointment of Mrs. H. Bigelow, 41 Drury Avenue, Highland Park, as local correspond- ent for that area. Mrs. Bigelow’s telephone number is Thorn-hill 398R2 and both she and The Lib- eral will appreciate the co- operation of readers in tel- ephoning local items to net at that number. ___c," V The team was hurriedly a5semb- led on the Thursday and took the long drive to Sunderland. Further complications developed‘ in connection with financial mat- ters. League officials had assured Chairman Jack Hart of the hockey committee that Richmond Hill would receive the residue of the gate after expenses had been met. When it came time for settlement, ‘however. Sunderland officials are said to have attempted to make a ‘.horse trade” not in keeping with the promise made to Richmond Hill. That matter also has been referred to OMHA officials. . Committee Is To Consider Monday Closing Of Shops In Village Dunng Summer Election of officers of Richmond hill busme Association will be held at a meeting around the" March, it was decided at a meeting of the organizz on Tuesday, and which showed the effects of the p fluenza epidemic. Sveral “regulars” scored their in attendance since the inception of the association. A nominating committee to suggest cultural side of the m a slate of officers to the meeting aetifities and to sues; 1.-.. _t nu&h~l-€n mannvr was appointed. Its members are Al. Rice, Bud Jones and Floyd Per- kins. Consideration of Monday closing} during the summer months was dealt with briefly. Introducing the subject, President Archie Mu! ray said that he had been ap- proached by several members who asked that the matter be consid- ered. A committee to study the suggestion was appointed with A. R. W. Uren as its chairman. He will select his own members. Preliminary information regard- ing the Trade Fair was given by the Director, who said that it was believed that this year’s event would even outstrip the successful fair of last June. The Horticul- tural Society has again promised its co-operation he stated, and it was likely that a. flower show would be incorporated in the fair. An Arts and Crafts section, it Was stated, would also be » aIrfeature, the purpose being to present the Many Away From Schools As Influenza Hits District Richmond Hill schools were hit hard this week by the' current influenza epidemic ralthoiighhsggg‘ests lfi'ihcipal Wal. V’s-fluew fiabifé--S;:Habl, it“ Ifiigvhivbe well for_ parents to check up and see that some “young hopefuls.” are not taking advantage of the situation to “play hockey." § In spite of the few who may have taken advantage of the situâ€" ation there were many genuine absentees. In the Separate‘ School on Tuesday 56 out of 113 pupils were absent. The High School had 132 out. of 340 away. The Public School suffered least proportionately, with 131 out of a total enrollment of 530 absent. The situation is causing trustees and pupils some concern not lonly on account of the illneSS of the children but also because of its effect on provincial grants. Health Unit Head Reports Interviewed by The Libera‘i, Dr. R. M. King, head of the York County Health unit said: “Influenza appears to be hit- ting the people in the York Coun- ty Health Unit in about the same proportion as it is prevalent in the rest of the Province. The De- partment of-=National Health and Welfare at Ottawa has indicated that the type of influenza in cer- tain parts of the Province is prob- ably identical to the recent epi- demic of influenza in Great ‘Brit- ain. The Ottawa spokesman fur- ther suggested that possibly the severity of the influenza epidem- ic in Great Britain was somewhat exaggerated. However, at the present time, there is no doubt’ that influenza is sweeping through local communities, and while‘ no deaths have been reported, sever- al severe cases have been rumor- Hunt’s Lane Bridge Approval Witheld “Fix up the old one," was the gist of a letter received from the Ontario Department of Highways regarding the bridge on Hunt’s Lane and discussed by Markham Township Council at its recent meeting. The bridge has long been a sub- ject of complaint by residents of Hunt’s Lane and council some time ago promised to have action taken regarding it. Attempts to ‘do so have brought the recent ‘Highways Department letter al- though councillors state that they were assured some months ago that the department‘ would co-operate. HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 officers of Richmond Hill Business Men’s 0e held at a meeting around the_middle of :ided at a meeting of the organization held which showed the effects of the presentin- Sveral “regulars” scored their first miss cultural side of the municipality’s activities and to stress the num« ber of artistic endeavours centre- ing in Richmond Hill. Many applications for space had alrezay been received, it was re‘ ported, a considerable number of them coming from outside the vill. age limits. As membership in the association is limited to those .eno gaged in business. in the village, the D}rector asked for a decision from the meeting as to whuher these applications were to be com sidered. A lengthy discussion re‘ sulted in a. decision to abide by present regulations, limiting space in the fair to only those engaged in business within the corporate limits of Richmond Hill who are members of the association. Intention to broaden the num- ber of those taking an active part in the ananging of the fair was also announced by the Director, who said that this year the system of selling draw tickets to finance the fair would be abandoned and {that a ’charge would be made'ior space instead. Dr. King says that while‘it ll difficult to estimate the numbers of persons in at the present time with influenza, there is no doubt that a large proportion of the pop- ulation as a wholeis sick or re- covering from attacks of varying severity. He does not feel that there is any cause for alarm, al- though the attendance at several schools has been reported to b_e small due to.1arge numbers of children being absent. There is no justification at the present dme to close any schools or public mee ing‘ places. ’ Dr. King offers some suggestions to the Public as follows: avoid ex- cessive fatigue and get plenty of rest; call the family physician if a. sore throat, cough, vomiting, or diarrhoea, lasts more than 24 hours and does not appear to be improving; avoid unnecessary at- tendance at public meeting places during the present time; otherwise ‘carry on normally and dont worry. FEBRUARY 23 â€" Friday; Dance, old time and modern, Kit Carson’s Trail Blazers, and a gala. stage show, sponsored by the Canadian Legion Branch 375 at the Ricm mond Hill Public School auditor- ium at 8 p.111. Admission 75c per person. c3w32 From a post-card to a poster â€" whatever your needs may be in printing â€"- The Liber- al’s job printing de- partment can take care of them. Call Richmond Hill 9 and we’ll gladly discuss your problems. FEBRUARY 27 â€" Tuesday 7.30 pm. Films and talk on Commun- ity Recreation in Langstaif Public School for Langstafl" residents. ' MARCH 2 â€"- Friday 8 pm. Euchre and social evening will be held at Thornlea School auspices Home and School Association. 50c ad. mission. MARCH 5 â€" Monday. Richmond Hill Volunteer Fire Brigade will hold its annual euchre and bridge in the Public School Auditorium at 8.15 pm. Admission 50c. l-riZes galore. c3w38 Coming Even ts c1w34 c1w34