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iRichmond Hill Lions Haii Monday, May 19th 'l'o Shady Community Problems The second phase of the study will involve making a case study of one su- burban Community that has had a re- cent and large influx of new residents from the city. Final objective of the project will be to develop ways to elim- inate or lessen tensions and_ other prob- lems found in suburban schools through the Echoolsf instruptional programs. Recently the TeaChera’ College De- partment of Curriculum and Teaching in the United States set up a research project at columbia University's Tea- ohets‘ College, aimed at identifying and alleviating some of the social and edu- cational problems confronting chang- ing suburban communities. The pro- ject will try to determine how teachers and upils in suburban areas. which 113% can affected by a heavy influx of former city-residents, can be aided in adjusting rather quickly from city ways to suburban living. Results of the preliminary study (the project will cover a five year per- iod) will point up the issues re- quiring extended and more critical ex- amination, such as unfamiliar teaching prantjges and Qxa‘gerials pried. _ ' Pertainin to the preliminary study, Richmond Hill is fortunate in the fact that such a situation does not exist. here, since the town school pOpulation is 'on a similar scale with large city schools and instruction and the system of education applied in our schools is along the same line adopted by metro- politan schools. “Children coming from rural schools to Richmond Hill schools adjust quite satisfactorily, as do child- ren from city schools”, Mr. Duard Rose, Su ervising Principal of the town's pu llc schools, “but children moving from Richmond Hill to rural schools would have a certain amount of adjustment, since rural schoolrooms have more than one grade in the same classroom. The same thing applies to teachers. They, as well as the pupils who go from urban to rural school systems have a great deal of adjustment." 7 Professor Alice M. Miel, who with Luther W. Pfluger, is in charge of the preliminary research at the Columbia What would you do if you lost your eye sight tomorrow? 'hvo thousand people in Canada fbund the answer last year, and 2,000 more will be searching for the answer this year. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind is providing the answer for'all blind Canadians regardless of age, race, or Creed. Thrbugh out Prevention of Blind~ ness Department 1,370 persons in On- The extensive rehabilitation pro~ gram established by The Canadian Na- tional Institute for the Blind includes: home teaching, navigation training. em- ployment. counselling, vocational guid- ance, guidance and instruction to par- entsgf pre-echool glind children. ~ The number and severity of fatal motor vehicle accidents in Ontario de- creased during the first quarter of 1958, Hon. James N. Allan, Minister of Trans- port. announced recently. In the first three months of this year there was a total of 191 fatal accidents which caus- ed the death of 213 people. Last'yeer in the same period, 21:2 accidents fatally injured 251, a decrease of 10 percent in the number of fatal accidents and 15 per cent in the number of people killed. March showed the best improve- ment with a reduction from 78 fatal accidents and 98 persons killed in 19-57, to‘87 accidents and '72 fatalities this year, decreases of 14.1 per cent and 26.6 per cent respectively, _ There were 56 fatal accidents caus- ing 64 fatalities in February of this year, compared with 66 accidents and 77 fatalities in the same month of 1957, a. decrease of 15.2 per cent in fatal ac- Fatal Car Accidenls Decline u An Independent Weeky: Established 1878 7 Lâ€"â€"-/ Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.00; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau‘of Circulations ' Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH. Publisher W. S. COOK, Managing Editor Telephone TUrner 4-1105 “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa” 00880” US FOR YOUR . . . JOB PRINTING REQUIREMENTS Fine Workmanship - Reasonable Prices LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, May 15, 1958 “The Liberal” - 'IU. 4-1105 Help The Blind ¢b¢__1iheral college, observed that, “the school our- riculum in a suburban school may seem inadequate to children and parents from the city, and the issue of traditional versus modern education may become heightened”. On the other hand she points out, “older suburban residents, whose children are finished with school, often protest high tax rates to build more schools for incoming children." How familiar the theme of this project sounds, doesn‘t it? When we Were younger â€"â€" and lived in the city _ we experienced the same “adjustment” when we moved from Balmy Beach to downtown Tor- onto. Everyone (unless he stays “put” and never emerges from his own small circle of friends or neighbourhood) has to learn to “adjust” to unfamiliar sur- roundings. We feel that too much stress is put on “difficult adjustments" and that perhaps we as parents are trying too hard to make life for our offspring a bed of roses -â€" without any thorns to make it interesting. Newcomers to smaller communities, the report adds, often find stronger cit- izen interest in the suburban schoois and wonder how they will fit in. We do not advocate that one over- look the natural aversion even small children experience in being uprooted from familiar friends and surroundings and set down in a new environment “miles away from city life, with unpav- ed streets and unfinished roads" â€"â€" but we feel that we should assess the facts to the full before we call our adjustment to the new way of life a i“problem". Suburban and rural living is dif- ferent from that of city life -â€" and it has many wonderful and rewarding phases too numerous to mention. Where but in the quieter stream of a small but growing community can one find oneself -- and one's capabili- ties â€"â€" so fresh and new? As for the children â€"â€" in a, growing community they put down their roots and blossom into manhood and womanhood, secure in the knowledge that they know “ev- eryone on the street" and the street next to theirs, and finally -â€"~ the whole town is “home”. tario with serious eye problems have been helped. Many of these people would have been blind today if The Canadian National Institute for the Blind had not taken an interest in them. Can these services be bought? No! The facilities are available free of charge to all those needing assistance. Such a rehabilitation program is costly and only through your contributions can The Canadian National Institute for the Blind maintain and improve its service program. 7 For hope tomorrow give today when your canvasser calls. Please give generously. The campaign in the Richmond Hill area is being conducted under the lead- ership of Mrs. Alan White. cidents and 16.9 per cent in the numbér of fatally injured. 7 _ The number of fatal accidents was the same in January this year as it was last, when 68 Occurred. In January 1957 these accidents caused 76 deaths, While this year the.same number resulted in 77 fatalities. Mr. Allan expreSSed the hope that this improvement in the traffic accident picture was the result of an increasing awareness amongst drivers and pedes- trians of the part they must play as individuals in avoiding and preventing accidents. If this is in fact the case, he point- ed out, there is good reason to believe that as efforts are expanded to persuade ail who walk and drive to do so with thoughtful care, still further improve. ment in the trafiic accident situation can be expected. .mcuunoas An added feature of Richmond Hill Spring Fair which will be held Saturday. May 24th will be a showing of Chuolais cattle. New Breed Cattle At Fair May 24th The Charolais are a breed na- tive 0! France and very rare in this country. There an only about 2500 in North America and only a few in Canada. They are a white-straw color. longer back- ed man ordinary breeds and ex- I have been in the habit of posting letters in the evehlng ln our local drop box and now learn through 'the local press that they are n61; leaving Richmond Hill until the following evening. No notice of this has appeared on the boxes. What exactly is the reason for curtailing our services after fifty years? It seems to me that our services should be in- creasing concun'ent with our rap- idAgrowthx 7 Deplores Cut In Mail Service Dear Mr. Editor: by Cicely Thomson Last week’s large attendance at the Richmond Hill High School to see the film “Stigma” and to hear Mr. Outerbridge and Dr. Grlfi’in's talk could be some indi- cation of the awakening interest that our communities are showing in Meni;al Health problems It is good to see {hit our Town council acted immediately upon learning of out reduction in pos- tal services and I hope their ef- forts will soon restore our postal despatches to two a day with a request for three despatches in the very near future. Yours truly, M. B. “4‘. v..v.._._ ~__ 7 -, It so happened that at a, meeting the evening before I had heard Mr. Outerbridge speak. This was a much smaller group where the dynamic effect of his talk on the needs of the county would be more apparent. At the high school a board was elected with members from the various parts of the county, Schomberg, Sutton. Stoufi‘ville, Richmond Hill, N ewmarket, Maple and Aur~ ora. Since that time they have had a meeting at which Mrs. John Martin of Maple was elected as chairman and during the summer months a great deal of work will be going on behind the scenes. o‘- If it is only the cost to the taxpayer we think of when we hear that nearly half the hospital beds in Canada are filled by mental patients we are shocked . . if we think in terms of human living and families we are urged to some kind of action . . '. eSpeeially when a. man like Dr. Griffin tells us that by "First Aid Post” action this number can be drastically reduced. I for one feel pretty helpless when I am told that I can do something to help this situation. No matter how good my intentions, there is little I can do on my own. But when I hear that the beginnings of 3 Mental Health AssociatiOn are being made in York County, then there is one thing I can do! As a first step I can join that ‘association. Congratulates Council Dear Mr. Editor- I was very pleaSed to note that work started this week on pavlna the boulevards on Yonge Stree? in the business section. in the business section. This will be a teal Improve- ment and will help make our maln street clean and attractive. It is an improvement I have hoped for and I congratulate on: municipal council for getting the won: done. As there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 90,000 people in York [County the probable long-term goal of the association will be to Set up a mental health clinic for the county . . . but that is nothing I can do anything about just now. Hoxvever, one thing we did hear of at both meetings were the “Half-Way Houses” in the county where cured mental patients are living until they can return fully to their former lives . . . many have no homes they can go back to . . . it can be a problem to find a job . . . many would be returning to such unfavorable en- vironments that it is better they start new lives. Here is a project that is within the scope of well-meaning laymen. We can visit in these homes and be the first friends for these people who have been ill. We can make their lives brighter and fuller by taking them reading materials or records . . . by talking . . . by accompanying them on shopping expeditions, in many little ways to show them that they needn’t be lonely any more. A clean street is an attractive street on which to do busineSs. Now that the boulevards are pav- ed let us all co-operéte to keep them clean. CIVIS Air Mail has greatly speeded up mail communication in Our land and to countries overseas. A letter mailed in Toronto is de- livered in London Man tony eight hours. . _ Regl'efs Cut In Mail Service Dear Mr. Editor- Mr. Outerbridge told me that he hoped there would be educational programs for us laymen of the associa~ tion to help us in our visiting. We are going to have to learn to behave normally if a visiting program were to start in the hospital in Aurora as one of the ser- vices of the new association. And of course we can help with the fund raising program that will be needed for research. As well as local research to find out the local problems and how they are being met there will be the all-important labor- atory research on a national scale that will combat the mental diseascs themsalves, may prevent them and will be of untold value to all of us. The purpose of this letter ls'to express regret that 1t takes half thls tlme for a letter to leave Richmond H111 Post Office. Under present practice you Can send a letter from Toronto to London in less time than it take.- tc deliver a letter by mail from Richmond Hill to Elgin Mills. Golden Lion 560 5.00 16 Numbers Called j A C K p O T Om JJz/f, Over “Dear Mr. Editor ” ionwszzS-OQ cellent for beef production. Fat on the animals is marbelled through the meat and therefore there is no waste fat. This makes their beef particularly popular with folks who dislike tat meat. Murray A. Little of Markham Township who Mil exhibit this new beef breed at the Fair lm- ported his stock from Texas. He now has about tWenty head. For years we had twice day mail service. Now that we have grown to a town on: mail service is cut and I am only one of many who wonder why. suburban dweller. Surely among the disadvantages must be listed the expense of driving to Toronto to mall a letter. It‘s all very well to speed up our trans~Canada and trans-At- lantic mail service, but let's Speed up the 19ca1__ser\_vlce as wel}. DUndofibtedly there are advant- ages and di_sady_ama_ges ’11: being Dear Mr, Editor: Now that we as a town are approaching the question of ii- quor and beer outlets in our im- mediate vicinity, and before the storm of literature on both sides begins to rain down upon us. wouid it not be wise for each of us to quietly decide the sal- ient points of the question and seriously make up our minds in- dividually Where we stand on this matter. Wi‘inany, we must acknowledge, as sane thinking citizens that the days )vhen threr “(dry-sf metal}: wanted to restrict the pleasure of others have gone. Today the in- teiiigent person realizes that the easiEr the access to liquor is made the more trouble can be expected. both financlally and physically. Naturally the brew- ers want to see as many outlets as possible. that is why they are in buslness, but we do not hear of them offering to help in the problem of alcoholism that these outlets leave behind. Most citizens believe that the idea for this beer and liquor outlet originated in Beverley Ac- res because the taxpayers there wanted to be able to purchase their beer clase at hand. But the Idea first germinated in the brewer-5‘ ofilces, as they saw R1ch~ mond H111 as a likely spot to in- crease thgir profits. But the 'vital question that real- ly concern: us is how will it af- fect us. the citizens. individually. The first place will be in the pocket book, for in spite of the Opposes Liquor Outlet Herc SUBURBANITE Investigate Crash Find 2 Culprits An attempt to rob the safe at Keith's Seeds, Thornhill, Sunday nlght was frustrated and nothing was stolen from the store. Vaug- han township police patrolling the area discovered the break~ln but the culprits had taken flight earlier. On Tuesday of last week Vau han township police appre- hen ed two Aurora youths, aged 13 and 16 after they had gtolen a car from 3 Wellington Street garage. gone for a ride and rolled the auto over in a mad dash down the highway south of Maple. In- vestigating the accident. P.C. Ted Green of the Vaughan police de- partment discovered it was a car stolen earlier in the day from the garage of Ivan Dadson. Aurora. Mr. Dadson had left the keys in the car and was away at work when the car was stolen. r The 16 year old youth. who was treated at Branson hospital for cuts and bruises was arraign- ed in Newmarket court and the 13 yea! old. who was uninjured but shaken up, appeared in Ju- venile court this week. R.M.Smith Is New Assistant To The Agricultural Rep. It has been announced by the Hon. W. A. Goodiellow, Minister of Agriculture, that Raymond M. Smith. of Howlck. Que.. has been appointed Assistant Agricultunl Representative for York County, to succeed E. K. Pearson, who 'as pramoted to Agricultural Rep. for Dundas County, on May lst. Mr. Smith was a member of this year‘s graduating class at Mec- donaid Agricultural College where he specialied in livestock and economics. ,7 According to W. M. Cockburn. Agricultural Rep. for York, Mr. Smith came up through 4-H Clubs in that good livestock and general farming county of Chat- eouguay, about 40 miles south east of Montreal. The members 1 the Agricultural Representative Service toured this English speak- ing district a couple of years ago when their conference was at quptyiilg‘Agricultural Sghooi. A 1-; fact that many businessmen feel it will bring more dollars to town, the proven fact is that 201- every Si spent on beer and al- cohol in Ontario. it cost you the readers of this letter, exactly $5.70 to clear up the trouble that liquor causes in traffic accidents, in broken homes, in increased police protection. etc. You pay this whether you are a non- drinker. whether you have the occAsional drink or whether you drink regularly, so all of us are Concerned whether we like it or not. From the brewers’ side, of Course, you will not hear this. At the end of their fiscal year they will be able to report another big increase in profits. though wishing they could have made more, but hoping that next year will be better. But they will not mention that one in every elev- MKVSififth \Kv'lll be reporting for duty on May 20th. en of our citizens who take the occasional drink here in Rich- mond Hill became an alcoholic, or that some of our children were injured or_killegl by grunk: en drivers, or that the value of Some citizen's property declined, or that Some families had to give up their homes. the meney fox- payments showing up on the brewers’ balance sheet. The {out spires on top of the tower of Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church have been since 1880 a local land- mark. However the passing years have taken their toll and they may disappear. Many peOfle will say. but it's only a smal outlet. but experi- ence has proven time and again, that this is the thin end of the wedge, first one outiet, then an- other nearer the highway and then “now that everyone's for it" let's do it properly and have a beer parlour. For this vote is not just for one outlet, if we say "yes" the brewers are free «cording to law to put up sev- eral liquor and beer outlets with- out consulting us any further. An announcement last Sun- day by A. E. Tyson, Chair- man of tthe Board of Man- agement appealed for funds for their repair. The job at putting the spires in good re- pair is an expensive one and the Management Board has to decide between the comâ€" plete renovauon or the al- ternative of cutting the tow- er by some twenty feet. The latter of course is much less expensive, but there is a good deal of feellng that the land- mark of the church spires should be retained. Fortunately every citizen of voting age still has the oppor- tunity of registering his feeling for or against on this issue. I! you feel that the town has done fairly well for itself without beer and liquor outlets, that people who drink are a hazard on the highway and that the cost of liv- ing is high enough. then use your vote intelligently and wisely. Re- member your vote will be the one that counts. Church. Spires Need Repairs James J. Brown, Bridgeford Sh. STARTING TIME-8 PMO Numbers Cangd Nook-o ms» nu: I. u-v FREE PARKING REAR 0F TREAT“ Show Times 7 And 9 p... Continuous from 6 Mn. Saturdays and Holldln Wed., Thurs., F 1-i., Sat, May 21, 22, 23, 24 AT REGULAR ADMISSIONS ~ PLEASE NU'I‘E UUKIZ\G THIS SHOWING Ur‘ “WAR AND PEACE” ONE SHOW NIGHTLY â€"â€" BOX OFFICE OPENS 6.45 p.121. FEATURE PRESENTATION 7.30 p.m. ll .lW-OJII "ism: ; Rlclmwml ‘ Special Midnite Horrorama Show Sunday, May 18, 12.05 I .xU; Monday, Tuesday, May 19, 20 Matinee Monday, May 19, 2 pm. Friday, Saturday, May 16, 17 Matinee Saturday 2 pm. AUDREY AS FRANZ VON WERRA MDA-FERBEH. HENRY MEl