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h‘ashsaa‘angion 'Han.‘ Carr- ville Road West at 7:45 pm. prompt. tfc44 i t t t MAY 17 â€"â€" Saturday. Grand op- ening Sunny Valley Dance Hall. Musselman's Lake. Music by Er- nie Ruttan and the Novelty Ranch wBoys. Every Saturday all summer 9-12 pm. Admission 75c. *2w45 t t It MAY 19 â€" Monday. Richmond Hill Lions Teenage Safe Driving Roadeo for girls and boys to be held on May 19. 1958 at Loblaw's parking lot. Applicants may ob- tain forms from Richmond Hill Police Department and must be 16 and under 20 years on June 1, 1958. Cups and cash prizes. a MAY 21 â€"- Wednesday. Rich- mond Hill Conservative Women's Association will hold a meeting on Wednesday. May 21. at 43 Markham Rd. Guest speaker. Mrs. R. J. Sutherland. Meeting time 8:30 to 10:30. clw46 MAY 22 â€"- Thursday. 8 pm. at the Lions Community Hall, An- nual Tulip Show of the Rich- mond Hlll Horticultural Society. Convener. Mrs. Weir Erwood. Judges‘ Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Wil- son. Plant sale at 7 pm. Every- one welcome. c1w46 MAY 24 â€"- Saturday. Richmond Hill 109th annual Spring Fair. Horse Show. midway and many feature attractions. Big dance in the arena at night Write for prize list Mrs. Margaret Burton. Sec- retary. Gormley R.R. No. 2. MAY 22 â€"â€"- Thursday. St. Anne‘s Group of the Parish Guild will hold a rummage sale on Thurs- day. May 22, at 1 pm. in St. George's Anglican Church. Will- owdale. c1w46 MAY 20 â€" Tuesday. Concert As- sociations of Canada will hold a meeting for all interested in starting a concert series â€"â€" in the Thornhlll High School, 8 p. m. For information call Mrs. Ritche, TU. 4-4864. c2w45 MAY 21 â€"- Wednesday, at 2.15. General meeting at Kingcrafts House. Paintings on exhibit. Sale of garden plants at 4 pm. Lea- thercraft group serving refresh- ments. c1w46 MAY 25 â€"- Sunday. Anniversary services at Laskay United Church. Ml, JM. Robertamhm fi’k'e‘H-leby. speaker. At 7.30 p. m. Rev. Martin Jenkinson and Thistletown United Church choir. c1w46 MAY 27 â€"â€" Tuesday, weather permitting. or May 29. Thursday. Guide and Brownie Revel. for the Richmond Hill West District at the home of Commissioner Mrs. Ernest Redelmeier, North Farm. Bathurst St. clw46 MAY 30 â€" Friday. Jumble sale under auspices of York North Liberal Women's Association, Newmarket Town Hall basement. 10 am. to 5 pm, featuring small antiques. curios, bricabrac and used clothing. nc5w44 MAY 30 -â€" Friday. The Glen- Elm Women‘s Institute extends a cordial invitation to all to at- tend their Daffodil Tea at Wrix- on Hall from 2 to 4 pm. Home baking and sewing will be fea- tured. c3w46 EVERY MONDAY NIGHT at 8 pm. Bingo. Community Hall. Spruce Ave., Stop 22A Yonge St. Ii t It It WEDNESDAY eveningfiibtggopeld EVERY SUNDAY EVENING -â€" Starting at 8.30 pm. The Western Jamboree at the York Farmers' Market in Thornhill. Country music at its best and an evening of entertainment for the whole family. tfcll JUNE 7 â€" Saturday at 1 pm. School Section No. 11 of Purple- viile. 105th reunion picnic. An invitation is extended to all tea- chers. pupils and ex-pupils. Please bring a basket lunch. JUNE 21 â€" Saturday. On Mid- summer's Eve. at Maple. family fun and entertainment. Watch for further details. c3w46 Sr. Citizens Meet Lions Hall, May 2| The Senior Citizen‘s Club of Richmond Hill will hold their third meeting on May 21 at 2.00 pm. in the Lion‘s Hall ,which has been offered without charge to the association. At this ‘meeting it is planned that the club will hold their first election. and to that end a nomin- ating committee appointed by the activities council has been working to present a full slate for president. vice-president. secre- tary .treasurer .and convenors for membership. social, transporta- tion .and sunshine. The council felt that a full sla‘te was neces- sary as there are many members who are new to the community and are just beginning to know people. Nominations from the floor, with the consent of the nominee. will be welcomed at the meeting. There were 67 present at the last meeting in Wrixon Hall and it. is hoped that the numbers will grow at. this next meeting. One of the major items of the May meeting will be the planning of the June Garden Party to be held at the home of Mrs. B. L. Anderson. Mrs. McCron and Mrs. Bowes volunteered to look after the re- freshments. Mr. and Mrs. Tilley will take phone calls at TU. 44024 for those who wishvto arrange for transportation and the library, TU. 4-3563 will also take calls in the afternoons and evenings. Coming Events c4w43 c5w43 c1w46 Despite protests from Trustee Stewart Rumble and his ch “as "'tlié'HSidfo' only allow 12 days a year for sick leave, York Central Dis- trict High School Board approved; with one dissenting ‘vote, the motion that teachers receive 20 days a year ac- lcumulative sick leave. Caretakers and non-teaching peo- yple and office staff for the district high schools will re- ceive two days a month sick leave, for 12 months in the year. On the advice of D. J. Ashworth, Business Adminisâ€" trator for York Central, employees may now have five days sick leave without a medical certificate. Previously an employee had to have the written word of a qualified practitioner in order to be absent from work more than three days. The board also approved absences, for severe illness of a member of an employee's family, up to five days a year, to come off the employee’s accumulative sick leave; and a day off with pay if a member requests it in order to try an examination for his specialist's certificate. Injuries to personnel received. at school will compensate the said employee with 75% of his salary from the workmen's com- pensation board and the balance will be covered by the board. All employees are now covered by this plan, Chairman Harry Sayers informed the board at their regu- lar monthly meeting last Monday night. VOLUME LXXIX, NUMBER 46 Grade IO Failures No Reflection On Public Schooling Trustee Rumble continued to stand firm in his policy against what he termed ridiculous and uncalled for expenditures at Mon- day night's meeting. Trustees Wesley Middleton, Morley Kin- nee and Bob Endean were absent. Referring to the numerous let- ters read by secretary Mrs. J. R. McAlister regarding pending con- ventions. Trustee Rumble said he thought it was a weakness for the board to belong to too many as- sociations. Mr. Ashworth pointed out there were only three or four conventions that applied to this board and all were vitally impor- tant to those concerned. Trustee Kinnee will again rep- resent York Central at the Asso- ciation for High School Boards annual convention. of which he is president; the two head caretak‘ ers are to go to a caretaker’s con- vention being held in Guelph in July and Mrs. McAlister who has been a member of the School Business Officials Association and Business Administrator D. J. Ash- worth. along with 200 Ontario school business officials will at- tend the annual convention being held at London. Ontario in June. Earlier in the same month. Trus- tees Sayers and J. Honsberger will attend the Business Officials Convention for public and sec- ondary trustees. Prizes and Scholarships The board approved the sug- gestion of Principal A. S. Elson that prize money for typing awards in all three high schools be increased from $3 to $5 for first prize and_from $2 to $3 for 2nd prize in the Jr. and Sr. class- es. Trustee Honsberger who is .serving his first term on the board this year representing School Area No. I, asked if Thornhill High School had a good number of scholarships, to which Principal Elson replied there had already been many donations but that there is a tentative. unoffi- cial loan fund in the planning stage. for students taking four years or longer in arts at univer- Architect W. E. Barnett (right) turns over the keys to the new Ross Doan Public School to Chairman R. Bick of School Area No. 1 Markham- Vaughan at last Friday’s official open- ing ceremonies. Watching proceedings :boan 3400/ _Opené sity. This fund would include the university fee plus 10%. fur- ther details will be disclosed later. Car Allowance O.K.’d Vice-Chairman Marshall Mc- Murchy, reporting for the Per- sonnel Committee. of which he is chairman, said that at the time Mr. Ashworth was appointed business administrator a request was made for a car allowance. At Monday night's meeting the board approved the motion of Trustee R. Tierney that the following at“ rangement be made: Mr. Ash- worth will now receive 10¢ a mile for the first 200 miles; Be a mile for the next 100 miles. and 7c a mile for the balance of mileage, this plan excludes personal driv- mg. Increase Staffs Principal Wright Morrow re~ quested a stenographer be hired to assist Mrs. I. Finkle. secretary of the Richmond Hill High School; at the same time a secre- tary will be hired for Wood- bridge; two school custodians and a matron, plus a 4th class engi- neer will also be employed for the September term. An unsigned letter from the caretaking staff requesting re- vision of the salary schedule was turned down by the board, in view of the fact that a schedule was set earlier and accepted by the staff. The business adminis- trator is at the present time in- vestigating the merits of a pro- posed pension fund to benefit all employees. including the school custodians. Accept Invitation The York Central board dele- gated Principals Elson and Mor- row to represent them at a meet- ing with the Richmond Hill Pub- lic School Board to discuss pros- pective grade 8 graduates. The board did not go along with the request of the public school (Continued on page 5) ACCIDENTS 64 ACCIDENT RECORD RICHMOND HILL F ATALITIES 0 In Enamels. Unity; In Non-essentials. Liberty; In all "Mgr, Cluva RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1958 1958 is Principal R. Brown. This new school is located on Mill Road in Vaughan Township and is nam- ed in honour of Dr. A. W. R. Dean, School Area Treasurer. â€" INJURIES 1 3 yaemng At their dinner meeting last Thursday at the Richmond The- atre Grill, the Richmond Hill Kinsmen Club held the “Zone B" Presidents Conference, with twenty guests present. These conferences are held four times yearly to ensure that all Kins- men Clubs in the zone are work- ing together to fulfil their slo- gan of “The Community's Great- est “NK " Nwrswmmww.‘ . R. Hill Kinsmen Hold Conference Following the dinner, the group was given an interesting talk by Bill Valentine of station CFRB. During the executive meeting relative to local projects, the other members and guests adjourned to the Canadian Leg- ion Hall, and were entertained by the showing of the film, “The Indianapolis Speedway 500”, which was Provided by Mr. Mor- ley Williams. Mr. Jack May also showed some very interesting films on fishing and wildlife. Kinsmen secretary George Flagler advises that the Kins- men lucky draw tickets are sell- ing well and quite a number are still available. The car offered to the lucky winner is a Chevrolet coupe. Several tenders were opened at Vaughan Township Council meeting on Monday morning. The contract for oiling township roads was awarded to low bidder, H. J. Beamish Construction Co. at .253 per gallon. The calcium brine contract went to the sole bidder, Miller Paving Co., at a cost of .152 per gallon. Councillor V. Ryder of the road committee will prepare an estimate for road requirements. Deputy-reeve R. Kirk said he would like to see a study made on the use of flake calcium on the roads, preceding oil treatment. There was one tender for the flake calcium. Vaughan Council Awards Oil And Brine Contracts Mr. Kirk also asked for an it- emized statement of expenditure for grading of McGilIivary’s Hill, near Highway 27. Original estim- ate of the cost was $6,000.00. Ac- cording to the road accounts $11.- 900.00 has already been spent and Monday in the discussion it was stated additional planned expen- ditures will bring the final total cost to approximately $13,000.00. Careless Hunters Carelessness of hunters in their use of firearms caused several township residents near Purple- ville Woods to ask that some- thing be done to prohibit hunt- ing on or near their properties. Reeve John Perry stated he held the opinion hunting shouldn‘t be allowed in the township at all, as it is getting too built up. Coun- cillor Jesse Bryson was of the opinion residents should be al- lowed to hunt. Councillor E. W. Anstey stated it was up to the owners to prosecute persons hunting on their property illeg- ally. ' Clerk J. McDonald recalled ac- cording to the Department of Lands and Forests either game preserves and licensed hunting must be permitted, or a reversion in the township farmers could north of the province. If the council passed a by-law prohib- iting the discharge of firearms in hte township the farmers could be prosecuted for shooting groundhogs. skunks, etc., on their own property. â€"â€" Photo by Lagerquist i There will be two ballots. 0ne< 're the establishment of a liquor store. and one regarding a beer store. Polls will be open in sev- enteen subdivisions from 9 am. to 8 pm. Daylight Saving Time. Town Clerk Russell Lynett will officiate as Returning Officer, and Norman A. Todd ,local bar- rister ,has been appointed as Re- vising Officer. Voters lists will be open‘ for inspection at ‘the Clerk’s Office, and anyone whose name is omitted may have name added by notifying the Returning Officer in writing not later than June 6th, or by appling to the Regising Officer on June 7th. Voting under the Liquor Li- cense Act on the question of es- tablishing a liquor and beer store in Richmond Hill will take place Saturday June let. The Voter’s List used will be the same as in the Federal Election held March 3lst. and the sub-divisions and voting places will be the same with few exceptions. All residents of Richmond Hill entitled to vote in a federal elec- tion who were resident here prior to April 215i will be eligible to vole on the liquor question. June 2| Liquor VoteOn V.O.N. Service Well Received Organizations favoring both sides of the questions are en- titled to appoint an official manâ€" ager for the campaign and have until May 17th to make such ap- pointmentnTo date no appointâ€" ment of managers for either side has been reported to the Return- lng Officer. Mrs. Malcolm Thomson. presi- dent, presided at the regular monthly meeting of the Rich- mond Hill Branch of the Victor- ian Order of Nurses held this week. Mrs. Thomson gave an in- teresting account of her attend- ance at the National Convention hold' at Ottawa. "Miss Woodbyrne,‘ local V.O.N. nurse, gave a‘detailed report of activities which showed that the work of the branch is increasing rapidly. The V.O.N. gives Home Nursing Service in Richmond Hill and every month more peoo- 1e are availing themselves of the service. The increased number of local calls is convincing evi~ dence that the service inaugur- ated here in January of this year is appreciated by the people and meeting a real need in the com-t mgnity. The services of the V.O.N. are available to every citizen of Rich- mond Hill. If you have any prob- lem with which the Nurse can be helpful just call Miss Wood- byrne at TU. 4-4101. or visit her at the office in the Municipal Building Reeve Perry then ofiered to drop in to talk the matter over with Dr. Laird. one of the signers of the letter to council regard- ing the hunters. Thornhill Road Authority Council plans to consult with Thornhill Village Trustees again regarding the proposed road im- provement program in order to clear up the problem concerning proper authorization, before the matter comes before the Ontario Municipal Board. The Municipal Act provides that police villages can only approve road expendi- tures from current funds and limits the mill rate for the pur- pose to 15 mills. Yet roads in police villages are under the jur- is diction of the police village trustees according to the Police Village Act. Under the local im- provement method of financing. the work is a charge on those whose properties abut it. Coun- cillor Anstey commented, “That isn't fair regarding through roads." Clerk McDonald felt the council should go back to the trustees and “ask them to give to us authority to do it." Deputy- reeve Kirk emphasized, “Author- ization should be cleared up be- fore we start.” Mr. McDonald will confer again with Township Solicitor T. Fraser, regarding the matter. Uplands Stop Signs Residents of Uplands Gardens applied to council some time ago regarding reducing speeding on the subdivision through streets. Monday council approved in prin- ciple a plan to place two stop signs on all through streets in the subdivision. There being no dissension by 10 am. Monday morning, a road near Kleinburg and the 9th and 10th Concessions will be closed. Following the Department of Highways‘ decision to revert the road to the township. it was ad- vertised recently for closure. Now council's decision on the matter will be referred to the York County Council for approv- Township School Area Unknown Raiders Co nti nue Run On Chicken Farms Markham township police are re-concentrating their efforts to stamp out the epedemic of chick- en stealing which has hit the township seven times this year. Seventy-five more birds were stol- en from the chicken farm of Tom Shadlock, Steeles Avenue. last Friday night. This is the third raid suffered by Shadlock this year. Impressive Ceremonies For Ross Doan School Opening A speed trap set out at Union- ville on Friday caught 60 drivers who Were summonsed to appear at Buttonville court. HAROLD D. SANDERSON Has been elected President of the Ilichmond Hill Lions Club for the oming year. Other officers are lst vice president, Dr. James R. Langstaff; 2nd vice president. Donald R. Little; 3rd vice presi- dent, D. Featherstonhaugh; sec- retary, Wally Armstrong; assist- ant Secretary. W. Wagner; treas- urer, George Fenwick: Lion Tam- er. Don Fettes; Tail Twister. W. Mirrlees: directors. Warren Dav- ey, E. Sackfield. Mack Clement and A. G. D. Patterson. The new- ly elected officers will be duly installed on June 19th. Vaughan, Markham Confer On New Firehall NEWMARKET : Permission has been refused Newmarket's police chief to attend the annual con- vention of the Ontario Chief Constables’ association on the recommendation of the mayor who said. “Mr. Burbidge has been on the job so long he could learn little at the convention which would justify the expense". Mr. Burbidge is an executive member of the association. Vaughan To Build $45,000 Fire Hall In Richvale With the establishment of a Vaughan brigade at Rich- vale. the services now receiv- ed from Richmond Hill Fire Department will be curtailed. However. Vaughan Council is asking Richmond Hill to extend the existing agree- ment between them regard- ing fire service until such time as the new fire hall is ready. The site for the proposed fire hall was purchased sev- eral years ago. when it was realized that a fire hall in this populous portion of the township would some day be needed Vaughan Township Council is asking the Ontario Municlr pal Board to approve its ap« plication to construct and equip a fire hall on Spruce Ave. in Richvale for $45,000. Reeve W. L. Clark and Councillors 5. Watson and L. Mumberson of Markham Township met with repres- entatives of Vaughan Town- ship Council last week to discuss the construction of a new fireball in the Richvale area of Vaughan Townhip. It was agreed that Vaughan will build and equip the fire- hall. Markham tentatively ag- reed to sign a fire rental ag- reement with Vaughan. It is expected the new Vaughan agreement when signed will replace the present agree- ment Markham has with Richmond Hill for fire pro- tection. Heads Lions HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 SINGLE COPY 10¢ The new six-room Public School on Mill Rd: in Vaugh- an Township was ofiicially opened last Friday. In use since February 24, 1958, the fine new building will be known as the Ross Doan Public School. and was named in honour of Dr. A. W. Ross Doan, the Treasurer of School Area No. 1 Markham-Vaughan for the past eight years. A large number of interested ratepayers attended the ceremonies which were presided over by Mr. Roy Bick, Chairman of the School Area Board. Following words of welcome by the chairman there were num- bers by the school choir under the direction of Mr. Hugh Martin. Trustee Nathan D. Hicks then expressed the thanks of the board to both the architect. Mr. W, E. Barnett. and the contractor. Mr. A. C. MacNaughton. for their as- sistance in the construction and designing of the building. Mr. Barnett then presented two pic- tures of the school. One went to Dr. Doan and the other to the school. Dr. Dean was then introduced by Trustee Jackson Taylor. Dr. Dean thanked the board for the honour conferred upon him. He spoke of the revival in the inter- est in education brought on by the Russian satellite. Progressive education is becoming less im- portant and surveys show that education is returning ,in Can- ada, to the three R's and the tra- ditional methods of teaching. “Not enough mental challenge, ’ said Dr. Doan, "is being given to the top 20% of the students and as a result their talent is going ,to waste. While these students are wasting their time doing things which bore them in order to stay with the average student their minds cease to function and they quit school before they should and thus the country is deprived of its best minds." He then said that he felt that too much stress was put on the aver- age, and that education would fail if teachers lost the ability to arouse the interest of their stu- dents. A very lovely painting was then given to the school by Dr. Doan. The picture was painted by Mrs. Charles Howitt. Mr. Barnett then presented the key to the school to Mr. Bick who in turn gave it to Mr. Brown, the principal of the school. The Fray er of dedication was said by the Rev. Robert W. Irvin. The school choir sang “Bless This School." Mr. Brown then accepted a Bible from Mrs. MacGregor on behalf of the school. The school staff was introduced by Mr. Brown after his acceptance of the Bible and he showed the audience a painting given to the school by Mr. C. H. Grebze who is the of- ficial artist for the Ontario Hydro. Three charming young ladies are seen above prepar- ing for the annual Rose Petal Prom sponsored by Rich- mond Hill Teen Town. This social event which marks the highlight of the teen town season will be held this Friday evening at the Lions Hall. ' Admiring the lovely roses kindly donated by H. J. Mills Ltd. are left to right, Leslie Webb, Donna Lindszy, and Bonnie Cottrell of teen town. The speaker of the evening was The action of Q. Lostmcco & Sons. Contractors. builders of the Beverley Acres School‘ against the Richmond Hill Public School Board has been settled out of court for $2.- 250.00. The board on motion of Trustee Rabinowitch ag- reed to make the payment to their solicitors. McMaster, Montgomery (30., for the set- tlement on Thursday of last week. The original offer of the board was for $1,000.00. The contractor claimed approxim- ately $7,407.93, which includâ€" ed extra costs of fill. con- crete. steel. blackboard and tile. Focal point of the disag- reement centred around a wrong bench mark used by the contractor. . N The payment will be de- ducted from the Beverley Acres School capital account. Town School Rd. Settles Case $2,250.00 SELL and TELL . . “LIBERAL” WANT 'AD CALL TUrner 4-1105 2‘, 0.60 pela/ /9I with an inexpensive introduced by Supervising Princi- pal E. J. Sand. As Director of Education for the Toronto Public Schools and a graduate of the University of London and Colum- bia University Mr. Z. S. Phim- ister was well chosen as the guest speaker. Not wanting to repeat Dr. Dean he began by making note of the excellent stafi. He then said a little about the man that the school was named after. He went on to say that the teach- ers in a school made it as good or bad as it was. He feels that ii the teachers take a genuine interest in their pupils that the students cannot help but succeed. He then talked about the different types of students and their needs. If teachers can differentiate between fact and fiction in the things they teach then they will bring their students to a better understand- ing and knowledge of their sub- ject and thus give them a worth- while education. He then wished the board every success with their new school. Mrs. Phimister was then presented with a bou- quet of roses. The school choir sang once again and then Rev. Irvin pm- nounced the Benediction. During the past eight years. Dr. Donn has served as area treasurer. In this capacity he has made a valu- able contribution to the area. In naming the school the Ross Donn Public School, the board ack- nowledges Dr. Dean's devotion and dedicated service. School Inspectors At International Reading Confer School Inspectors Maynard Hall- man and W. J. McLeod attended the International Reading Con- ference held in Milwaukee last Friday and Saturday. Four thousand, including super intendents and school inspectors and many university department heads .were in attendance. Every Canadian province. except New- foundland and Prince Edward Island, had representatives there and during the session all the Canadians held a getrtogetheg. Leaders in the field of reading contributed to a very profitable conference and many panel dis- cussions were held between auth- ors of school text books. “We came away with the feeling that right here our teachers are doing a very good jobâ€"and certainly we are not behind in our reading techniques in this school area," Inspector Hallman said. County Education Prior to attending the readâ€" ing conference. Inspectors Mc- Leod and Hallman attended -a meeting on Tuesday evening of Xast week with the Education Committee of County Council and some of the trustees who are on the executive of the York County Elementary School Trusv 'lees Association representing all schools. public and separate, in the county. Trustee Lou Clement represented Richmond H i l 1 schools. The purpose of this county meeting was to arrange for the fourth annual convention to take place in November of this year; it will probably be held in Thorn- hill. ram.