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APRIL 14 â€"~ Monday. Thornhill L.O.L. No. 91 meets in the Mason- ic Hall, Thornhill. c1w41 APRIL 14 â€"â€" Monday. Langstafi Ratepayers Association Will meet at Langstafl' Public School. c1w41 APRIL 14 â€"â€" Cooking School by Mofiats Ltd., Weston, sponsored by Presbyterian W.A. Easter Mon- day at 2 pm. in the Presbyterian Sunday Sch'ool Room. Lufky draws, free grocery bags, and a valuable door prize. Tickets 35¢ each. Tick- ets can be‘ had at Wm. Neaf's or Yerex Electric. c1w41 APRIL 18 â€"â€" Friday afternoon from 2 to 4 o’clock, Rlchvale Home and School is holding a home baâ€" king sale at the home of Mrs. Artâ€" hur Ba“, 62 Yongehurst Road. APRIL 15 â€"â€" Tuesday. Tnornhill Horticultural Society will meet in Thornhill United Church Hall, guest speaker Mr.. John Clarke. Juniors will meet with the seniors at 8.15 pm. Coloured films, sale of plants and lucky draw. All welcome. c1w41 APRIL 16 â€"~ Wed. An illustrated bird lecture by Alfred Bunker in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Maple under the auspices of St. Andrews Girls Club at 8 pm. Ad- mission 3‘5c and 20c. *2w40 APRIL 18 â€"â€"- Friday. Smithfield Fellowship Group is presenting a 3-act comedy “Here’s Howe” in the Edgeley Hall, sponsored by the Edgeley W.A. Admission 50c ad- ults, children 25c. c2w40 APRIL 15 â€" Tuesday. A special meeting of Richmond Hill United Church W.A. will be held In the Sunday School room at 7 pm. to discuss urgent business. All ladies of the afternoon and evening groups are asked to attend this meeting. c1w41 APRIL 18 â€" Friday. Minstrel Show in Richmond Hill United Church Sunday School room at 8 pm. Oshawa.Y.P.U. sponsored by Richmond Hill Y.P.U. Admission Admission 500. ° c2w41 APRIL 19 â€"- Saturday. IBake Salt. sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion in the Legion Hall Carrvilie Road from 2-4 p.m. c1w40 APRIL 19 â€"- Saturday. Spring Fair and Hobby Show, Bake Sale, Afternoon Tea, at Richmond Hill Public School by St. Mary’s'Angliâ€" can Evening Guild at 2.30 to 6 p‘-, m. c1w41 APRIL 23 â€"â€" Wed. “The Sunbonnet Girl”, 3 comic Operetta, under the auspices of St. Andrews Choir, in Maple Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Pro- ceeds for organ fund. Admission 60c. ‘2w40 Mr. Victor P. McMullen, Q. C. of Bedford Park Avenue has been appointed by the Richmond Hill Separate School Board as its rep- resentative on the Richmond H111 District High School Board. The announcement was made tfiis week by Chairman Clive Bettles. The new appointee will replace Rev. F. McGinn who recently tendered his resignation. High School Board Has New Member Mr. McMullen served on the East York High School Board for 13 years before moving to Richmond Hill in December 1951, and will have much valuable experience to offer in his new appointment. Engaged in making a telephone survey of all the Richmond Hill and Thornhill telephone subscribers to acquaint them with the operation of the dial telephone system is this trio of Bell Telephone em- ployees, Hazel Liggett (left), Mrs. Gladys Otter and May Conway. On the equip- ment shown, they are able to duplicate the Coming Events VOLUME LXXIII. NUMBER 41 The newly organized Rotary Club of Richmond.Hill, last Thursday night, was formally admitted to membership in Rotary Internation- al, the world-wide service organi- zation which has more than 7,300 Clubs in 83 countries and geogra- phical regions. Delegations from the Rotary Clubs at Barrie, Bolton, Bowmanville, Brampton, East York Gravenhurst, Guelph, Midland, Oshawa, Orangeville, Pickering, Toronto, and Weston-Mountâ€"Denâ€" nis, Whitby and Haliburton, were present at the meeting to welcome Rotarians of Richmond Hill into the fellowship of some 350,000 bus- iness and professional executives throughout the world. was organized in Chicago, Illinois, in 1905. Its basis of membership was the selection of one man from each business or profession in the community, thus establishing the Club as a cross-section of the com- munity’s business and professional life. After more than 46 years of growth and development, that orâ€" iginal plan is still the basis of membership of all Rotary Clubs throughout the world. These Clubs â€"â€" whether they are in the North, South or Central America, in Eur- The official Rotary charter was presented to President Bob Cross, by K. Partridge, Rotary District Governor from Port Credit, whose address to the Club outlined the history and purposes of the Ro~ tary movement. N‘iRotary is a comparatively young organization,” said Mr. Partridge. “The first Rotagy Club Impressive Ceremony So that Richmond Hill and Thornhill will enjoy uninterrupted service when the dial telephone sys- tem is introduced in these commun- ities at midnight on Saturday, May 3, a special group of Bell Tel- ephone employees is currently en- gaged in telephoning all subscrib- ers to give them personal instruc- tion in the use of the dial telephone. REhmond Hill Rotary Club Receives Official Charter Though subscribers were told how to use the dial telephone by the installer who placed the new telephones in their premises, the company is conducting this survey as a double guaranty that they will be familiar with important aspects of the new system. In addition to answering any questions subscribers may have about the new system, the Bell employees let the subscribers listen to the various tones aSSociated with the dial system. These are the “dial tone” which indicates the equipment is ready to take the call, the “busy signal" which tells the caller the line is busy, and the “ringing signal" which shows that the called person’s telephone is ringing. To make certain that the subscriber knows the technique 0f using the dial telephone, he is en- abled to place a. test call. Bell Telephone Preparing For "Change Over"May 3 Rural party line subscrbers, in addition to receiving this assistance will be mailed a card on which is various tones associated with the dial sysâ€" tem, and can check the accuracy of num- bers dialed by the subscribers. The sur- vey is part of the Bell program to ensure successful telephone conversions at Rich- mond Hill and Thornhill where new dial exchanges will be opened about midnight on Saturday,.May 3- Mr. Partridge then introduced the guest speaker, Colonel Wallace Bunton of the Salvation Army who emphasized the greatness of Rotar- ism to oneself, neighbour and in the community. Reeve Tom Taylor, representa- tive of the village. extended a hearty welcome to the new Rotary Club, and promised support and co-operation on behalf of the Council. Mr. Ken Tomlin, presi- dent of the Lions Club and Gover- nor Dick Edmunds pledged their coâ€"operation stating that the tWO Clubs could walk shoulder to shoulder giving help when and where needed. President Ed; Wilkins of Leaside, gave a brief outline of how the Richmond Hill Rotary Club was formed, giving due credit to past president Guy Hunt of the Leauide Club for his untiring efforts in bringing Rotary to Richmond Hill. Ofiicers of the new Rotary Club are Bob Cross, president; A1 Rice, vice-president; Bill MacDougall, secretary; Len Rice, treasurzer; Alf McLatchy, sergeant at arms; other charter member-s are Allan Baker, Jack Brillinger, Wm. Burns, Wm. Dodds, Wm. Gilchrist, Ernest Hall, Dr. Wm. Howe, Donald Plax- ton, Harold Reid, Harry Reid, Jack Rice, Peter Savage. Wm. Schur- man. Directors: Ralph Butler and ope. Asia, Africa or the islands of the Pacific â€"- are united in the practice of the ‘Ideal of Service, which is thoughtfulness of and helpfulness to others." _ Jack Teetzel. recorded their new number, the ring code associated with it, and the new numbers of other parties on the line. Special instructions will include an explanationrof how to reach other parties on the line. This survey of subscribers, is be- ing made by the Bell Company as one part of the over-all, highly in- tegrated program the company is carrying out to make the conver- sions successful ones. All telephone numbers will be changed co-incident with the con- versions. Richmond Hill numbers will consist of the prefix, TUrner 4 and four figures, while Thornhill numbers will consist of the prefix AVenue 5, and four figures. All the changed numbers will be included in a supplementary telephone dirâ€" ectory to be delivered to subscribers shortly before the conversions. Alex. Cruickshank of Centre Street West, Richmond Hill has sold his transport business which he has operated for the past 31 years to Alan Rum- ble of Arnold Street. Mr. Rumble took over on the first of April, and work- ing with him are Jas. Rumble and Jas. Moorley. Business Buys 31 -Year-01d an Essentials, Unity; ln Non-essentials, Liberty; In all Things, Charity.” Elgin Mills Farm ‘ Sold To American Syndicate 'Billy Button (Mrs. A. A. Mac- donald), author of “I Married An Artist”. will open the annual Spring Fair of St. Mary's Anglican Even- ing Guild, Richmond Hill, on Sat- urday, April 19, at 2.30 p.m. in the Public School auditorium. R. l. Craigie Elected Chairman Of The Membership Comm. Richmond Hill Chamber of Com- merce met in the Lions Hall Tues- day night to hear Mr. G. Bucker of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce speak on the work and du- ties of the organization. Mr. Buck- ley~was introduced by president Geo. Hill. Forty-six were present Tuesday night but the executive feels that the membership could be consid- erably increased and would like to point out that membership in the Chamber of Commerce is open to everyone in Richmond Hill and district. Mr. Buckley told of the work of the various committees of the club, outlining the members’ duties. At this same meeting R. J. Craigie was elected chairman of the Mem- bership Committee and he chose to work with him Morley Hall, Stan Ransom, Stan Tinker and Jack Hart. It was decided to form three other committees â€"â€" Retail, Industrial and Civic Improvement, the officers of which will be el- ected at a later date. Patterson Community Club Holds Meeting Important business was as fol- lows: the next meeting will be held April 17. Mr. Giordmaine, magic- ian, will visit the school April 25. The Spring Dance will be held early in May at Maple Creek Lodge. The monthly meeting of the Patterson Community Club was held March. 20 with Mr. Jack Large in the chair . ‘ Gratitude was expressed to Geo. Kellough for donating the new lights for the classroom. The spea- ker of the evening, Mr. Hudson of the Department of Lands and Forests showed motion pictures. Trustee Ed. Butlin Submits Resignation To P. S. Board The [and is situated in the md'st southerly portion of lot 50 in Markham Township, and extends from Yonge Street east to Bayview Ave. It is included in that part of Mark- ham Township which Richmond n‘ond Hill is hoping to annex in the very near future. A New York syndicate has purchased 100 acres of land just north of Richmond HM. This fact was revealed by Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Sanders who have sold their farm‘ at Elgln Mills to the American investors Exact details of the sale are not available but it is believed that the vendors received ap- proximately $500 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders will retain the house now situat- ed on the farm and 7% acres surrounding it. ‘Development b5 the investors of the re- mainder of the land includes plans for industry, housmg and business. Trustee Ed. Butlin of the Richmond Hill Public School Board this week submitted his resignation to Board Chair- man James Pollard. He gave pressure of business as his reason for this move. Mr. Butlin, an extremely popular member of the Board was asked by the members to carry on until the end of the present school year, at which time the trustees will act on his resignation. TO OPEN SPRING FAIR RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO., THURSDAY APRIL 10th. 1952 gm» WWW. A four-man delegation from S.‘ S No. 21, Locust Hill waited on Markham Township Council at its regular meeting on Monday last. The group was under the direction of Chairman Frank Reesor. The purpose of the visit was to re- quest an advance on this year's levy to cover the cost of improve- ments made in their school. The Department of Education has giv- en them permission to spend up to $3,000 on improvements to parts of their building. School Boards Represented At Markham Tp. Council Meeting Councillor Hooper objected to the Township granting them any ad- vance and thought the Board should borrow the money on a private note. “It is a sad situaâ€" tion", replied Councillor LeMasur- ier, “when a school board has to go out and borrow money from a private indivdual.” ‘Education is a municipal affair”, he concluded. “We are just accommodating them, and the TOWnship won’t be out any money,", stated Deputy- Reeve James. Trustee Howard Ha- german asked where the Board could go if they couldn’t come to their own Township Council. “Go to an individual”, replied Hooper. Both Deputy-Reeve James and Councillor LeMasurier agreed that borrowing from an individual was a sloppy way in which to do busi- ness. Traffic Hold-Up On Centre Stag! Council Passes Sub-Division Control & Parking By-Laws Reeve Timbers was agreeable to advancing the money, provided it didn’t interfere with the Township’s borrowing powers. Messrs. James and LeMasurier then moved and seconded a resolution advancing S. S. No. 21 $2,000 repayable, at the usual interest fines; Defifity-R’e‘eve J ames’ ‘and‘ Councillors LeMasixrier and Lennie voted for the motion, while Councillor Hooper abstained. Water & Roads for Thornlea Sch. Mr. Keith Richan, Chairman of School Area No. 1 Markham and Vaughan, attended the meeting regarding water and roads necess- ary for the construction of the new Thornlea school. This $193,- 000 school will be built in High- land Park on what was the old Gamble farm. Mr. Richan will visit Mr. Baker, the Township En- gineer for North York, in order to gain permission to tap on one of the hydrants in Highland Park King Township Passes By-Law'fi Covering Rd. Improvement AreaL It was recommended to the Reg- istrar of North York, that the sub- division of Father McGooey, 5th concession of King, be registered, providing Father McGooey supplies the necessary bills of sale and the usual affidavits regarding same. Mr. Meadows appeared before council and advanced reasons why the Oak Ridges Park Subdivision should be proceeded with. Council decided to discuss the matter fur- ther. Plans were received, approved and forwarded to the Planning and Development Board of two subdi- visions. One parcel of land to be subdivided belongs to John C. Dew of King City, the other at Pottage- ville is owned by Miss I. Lamont of Toronto. The question of buying'a new grader and snow plough has been considered since tenders for same were received at the March meet- ing of the Council. It was decided to keep the old grader on hand and to buy a new machine minus a scarifier. The council will ask all companies who sent tenders prev- iously to submit new tenders by April 18, for a fully equipped ma- chine, minus scarifier, which ecsts about $1,000 and cannot be used ont township roads, of approxim- ately 100 horsepower, with same _size 12 ply tires all round, 4 chains, for water. This water supply is necessary for construction pur- poses. Mr. Richan and Markham’s Road Superintendent, Mr. A. Buchanan, will make a joint survey of the area adjacent to the school site in an endeavour to locate the best route for a road into the school property. Thornlea Ratepayers Petition Mr. G. Elms on behalf of the Thornlea Ratepayers presented 1‘ strongly-worded petition request- ing no relaxation of the Township’s original land-use by-law covering Lots 4, 5. 6, 7, 8 and 9 in Concess- ion 2. The ratepayers are opposed to certain types of industrial de- velopment in that area. Deputy-Reeve James informed those present that at its meeting last week the Planning Board had failed to agree on the council’s re- commendation exempting the Ness property, Lot 6, Con. 2, from the by-law. “It looks like we have appointed a Planning Board to ov- errule both last year’s Council and this year’s Council”, stated Hooper. Councillor LeMasurier suggeted the Council should abide by the recommendation of the Planning Board “for they know more about planning than we do.” M. Frank Merrtt, the County weed inspector, gave the members a short talk on weed control. The Council will re-appoint the pres- ent weed inspector for another term. The members passed for pay- ment the bill from the Richmond Hill Fire Brigade covering the re- cent fire they attended on'the E. T. Stephens property. .Deputy- Reeve James and Councillor Hoo- per then moved and seconded a motion instructing their solicitor to refer the bill to E. T. Stephens Co. for payment. The members made a $15.00 grant to the Unionville Library Board. They also donated $25.00 to the Richmond Hill Agricultural Society. ML'K. Beamish of the Beamish . Construction Company attended the meeting. . Relief accounts totalling $275 and bounty accounts totalling $30 were passed for payment. Ludgate, engineer of the Dept. of Highways read the tenders submit- te" from all the companies and ap- proved council’s decision. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Arbon of 186 Spruce Avenue in Richvale will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this Sunday, April 13, am' will mark the occasion by hold~ ing open house for friends and relatives from 2 to 4 in the after- Both Mr. and Mr‘s. Arbon were born and raised in England, coming to Toronto in 1911. From Toronto they moved to Beamsville where they operated a fruit farm for 22 years, coming to Richyale in 1944 where they have made their home ever since. Mr. Arbon will be 74 years old 03. June 21 and Mrs. Arbon will be 72 on December 6. They have three sons, Ernie of Beamsville, William of Hamilton and Stephen of May Avenue, Richvale; one daughter Ada (Mrs. Ada Davis) and five grandchildren. noon David McLean Limited, Realtors, with head offices at Thornhill, an- nounced the appointment of Mr. Albert Morrison of Aurora, as rep- resentative agent for that district. Mr. Morrison has been for the Mr. Morrison has been for the past eight years the proprietor of Morrison's Grocery store. DAVID McLEAN OPENS AURORA AGENCY Planning Bd. Asks $1,500 Council Asks More Money For Land On Pugsley St. “People have to have somewhere to leave their cars," said Reeve Taylor, who questioned the advis- ability of passing the by-law, “it‘s hard enough now to find a place to park without imposing further res- trictions.” Richmond Hill council passed a by-law prohibiting the parking of cars on the north side of Centre Street west to Elizabeth Street. and on the south side of Centre Street east to Church Street, at its meeting Monday night. The dis- cussion arose from a report from Constable Robbins who said that traffic was having difficulty getting through the small space left by parked cars in the stated areas. “We shouldn’t be too hard on the people because it's the sewers that are causing the trouble,” said councillor Middleton, “yet people should abide by the law and when they’re told not to park in a cer- tain spot they shouldn’t. They should certainly leave room for other cars to get by.”’ The problem of merchants park- ing in front of their stores was discussed, and a resolution, intro- duced by councillors Middleton and Perkins, and unanimously carried stated that due to the shortage of parking space council is asking the merchants to co-operate with the police as well as the motorists while the sewers are being in- stalled by not parking on Yonge Street. Council pointed out that there was ample parking space available in the village park, and would appreciate it if drivers would use these grounds instead of Yonge 'Street where it would hol’d'up the continual flow of traffic. “Maybe sometime in the future we can instal parking meters on Yonge Street to ease the situation,” added Deputy-Reeve Tomlin. Removal From School Section in letter signed by five ratepayers in Richmond Hill asking that the property of Wesley Palmer, which is the west half of 10t’22, Markham Township, be ‘moved from Rich- mond Hill School Section, was read by Clerk Lynett, with council deciding to contact its solcitor beâ€" fore taking further action. One hundred acres are involved in this request, the taxes for which w0uld go to Headford School Section if the property is taken out of Rich- mond Hill School Section. Carnival August 4 Richmond Hill Lions club re- quested council for permission to hold its annual carnival on August 4, With council giving its approval. Council also granted its annual donation of $50 to Richmond Hill Agricultural Society. Refuse To Instal Water On a motion by councillors Mid- dleton and Rice council refused a request to instal water on Law- rence Avenue as the village is not in .a financial position to do so at the present time, and asked that the solicitor for the Williams es- tate be so informed. The Richmond Hill Public School Board made a thorough examina- tion of its transportation problem at last Friday’s regular meeting. Such an analysis had become nec- essary with the announcement by Chairman James Pollard that he has been unofficially informed of plans‘by the Department of Edu- cation to discontinue the Board’s grant for transportation after this year. Public School Board May Lose Prov. Grant For Transportation Mr. Gordon Mortson of Victoria Square, who handles the trans- porting of the school children, at- tended the meeting. Chairman Pol- lard complimented Mr. Mortson on the splendid manner in which he was operating the trensportation system. “However” stated Mr. P01- lard “if this is to be the last year we are to receive a provincial grant, it will certainly make quite a difference”. “That is why”, he said, “we have invited you here this evening to discuss the situa~ tion." The Board made it undertood they would still operate a bus to the Orange Home and Jefferson School. In any event, it is expect- ed that the children will be re- quested to walk out to Yonge St. RADIO STATION CBL Tuesday, April 15th. at 7.45 pm Hon "7/142 NW2 3W" HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1873 Douglas C. Abbott Minister of Finance For Canada “If the Williams estate on Law- rence Avenue wants water they should go ahead and put it in at their own expense,” said councillor.l Middleton. Council agreed that the developing of a sub-division should be at the expense of the sub-divider. “Should the village pay to up the value of a man's property?” asked councillor Rice. “Any man who is going to de- Ievop land and sub-divide it should pay for the services,” added Depu- ty-Reeve Tomlin. ' “I don’t like the idea of investing our money for water when it isn’t going to be used right away,” said councillor Perkins. ' “I agree,” said Reeve Taylor. “You can’t expect council to sub“ sidize land for the use of one in. dividual taxpayer,” added Deputy- Reeve Tomlin. Ask Higher Pnice For Land - After suggesting last year to the H.E.P.C. that it would sell .to the commission about 2 acres land. at the corner of Centre Street east and Pugsley Ave. for $3000., calm. cil refused to sell at this price, de- ciding to inform the H.E.P.C. that the sale price agreed upon in 1951'» of $10 a ft. is no longer applicable and that the land has been put up for sale on the open market for $20 a ft. When the letter from the Hydro‘ was first read stating that it was willing to accept council’s offer of $7,000., councillor Middleton moved that they go ahead with the trans- action. This motion was seconded by Deputyâ€"Reeve Tomlin. It was councillor Perkins who started the discussion by asserting that coun- cil wasn’t getting enough money for the land. After further ar- gurrent council decided to sit as I committee of the whole with Dep- uty-Reeve Tomlin taking the chair, “No other attempt has been made to sell the land,” said coun- cillor Perkins, “we might be ‘abl to get a higher price from some; one else. What I really object 1: is this big company dictating to us, they took so long to make up their minds about it.” minds about it.” “The property is a little more valuable now,” said Reeve Taylor, “the Lions new hall is there and we have sewers. I’ll Support Mr. Perkins in thinking the land is worth more money. Last year when it was discussed the price of $3,000 was alright, today it’s a. different matter." A where the bus would pick them up. “With such a system as that, we might get by with two bu'ses” said ,,-:_.L Mortsoi. ' Tdrustee Langstafi’ point- ed out that it would be just a case of bringing the children from Elgin LL- UL unu.5u-6 v..- -._ Mills an Oxford Street; to the school. The bus operating on the Markham Road would be discontin- ued Hear 1‘ Members will meet with 571‘. Mortson at a future date to discus further the problem of transporta tion for the school children. (Continued on page 3)