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JUNE 11 â€"- Thursday 8 pm. Lions Community Hall, the Rich- mond Hill Horticultural Society Annual Iris Show. Speaker, Mr. R. D. Little. Subject - Iris. Con- venor Mrs. D. BoydrNo admb “on charge. Everyone welcome! ‘ c1w49 JUNE 13 â€" Saturday 1-5 pm. Bazaar, home baking, handwork, afternoon tea to be served at the Orange Hall, first house north of Loblaws under the auspices of the L.O.B.A. c4w47 iii! JUNE 13 â€" Saturday. Aurora Horse Show, Town Park, Midway, Friday evening. See some of Can- ada's finest horses. c1w49 JUNE 16 â€" Tuesday 2.30 to 5 pm. June Garden Tea, 261 Rich- mond Street (corner of Trench Street) will be held by the 4th Richmond Hill Cub & Scout Mo- thers' Auxiliary. Sale of aprons. Admission 35c, children 10c. JUNE 17. Wednesday. 2.30 pm.â€" Garden Tea under the auspices of St. John’s Anglican Church W.A. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Snively, Glenlonely, South Road, Lake Wilcox. Sale of work and home baking. Admission and tea 75c. The public is cordially invited to attend. c2w49 JUNE 10 -â€" Wednesday â€" The Richmond Hill Curling Club is holding a public meeting at the Richmond Hill High School at 8 o'clock for all those interested in joining the club or finding out more about it. Everyone is invit- ed. An election of officers will be held after a general meeting. c1w49 JUNE 18 â€"â€" Thursday, 6-8 p.m Come to the Strawberry Social on the lawn of St. Andrew's Presâ€" byterian Church in Maple. The menu includes cold ham, salads. rolls. beverage. cake and of course all the strawberries and cream you can eat, at $1.25 a plate (children 12 and under 75c). c4w48 JUNE 5th - JUNE 18th â€" Mrs. B. G. Palmer invites all flower lovers to open house at her home on Bathurst Street, RR. 3, King, near Temperanceville, to view her Iris garden. c2w49 JUNE 20_ â€" Saturday â€" from 1 to 4.00 pm. â€" A Garden Tea and Bake Sale sponsored by the 3rd Richmond Hill Scouts Group Ladies’ Auxiliary is being held at the home of Mrs. W. Strugnell, 178 Essex Avenue. Admission 35c. Everyone welcome. c3w49 JUNE 24 -â€" Wednesday â€" Straw- berry Festival, Carrvilln United Church Woman’s Association. JULY 1 â€" Wednesday. King City Lions Field Day. King City Mem- orial Park. Men’s and Ladies’ Softball Tournament, $25 first, $15 second in each class. Entries to John Dew, King City, Phone 161, on or before June 2'7. Also horseshoe pitching contest. run- ning and novelty races for young and old. Lucky number draw prizes. Old time dance in even- ing and draw for pony. c4w49 JUNE 5th â€" Friday, 8.15 p.111. â€" St. Mary's Anglican Church, Wrixon Hall, pupils of Mrs. Syl- via Garson in “Dance Display.” c2w48 JUNE 24 - Wednesday at But- tonvllle W.I. Hall (Don Mills Rd.. 1 mile north No. 7 Hwy.) A Straw- berry Festival, under the auspic- es of the Buttonville W.I. Sup- per served from 5.00 pm. Pro- gram commencing at 8.00 pm. JUNE 24 â€" Wednesday â€" Tes- ton United Church, Strawberry Festival. Salad plate and straw- berries. Supper served from 5- 8 pm. Adults $1.25, children 75c. c1w49 DAILY 10 AM. TO 11 PM. â€" Dufl‘erln Fairways Golf Range & Miniature Golf Course. 50 allâ€" grass tees. 25 acres of level grass fairways, brilliant night lighting, free golf instruction classes, af- ternoons Mon. to Fri. Private les- sons anytime by appointment $2.50. Our sporty miniature golf course is where the Toronto and District Championship tourna- ment is played. Open to all. No entry fees. Make up a family par- ty, 3 club group, teams. children’s birthday parties or just come out yourself. You’ll have lots of fun. Only 35¢ a game â€" clubs and balls supplied. Dufferin St. at No. 7 Highway, AV. 5-0032. tfc47 EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT â€" 9.00 pm. - 12.00. Dancing to Max Cameron’s Orchestra, at Canad- ian Legion Hall, Can-ville Road, Richvale. Sponsored by Rich- mond H111 Branch 375, Canadian Legion. 75c per person. tfc36 BINGO every Wednesday even- ing at 7.45 p.111. at the Canadian Legion Branch 375, Camille Rd., West, Richvale. _ tfc48 BINGO every Thursday, 8 pm. in Orange Hall. lst house north )f Loblaws. tfc27 EVERY FRIDAY night â€" at 7.45 pm. Bingo - Community Hall. Spruce Ave. Stop 22A, Yonge St. tfc36 EVERY TUESDAY. Bingo 8 pm. at the ’Legion Hall. King Side Road, Oak Ridges. Cash prizes and jackpot. tfcal 30 um 30 UTE VAUGHAN SUPPU 1'! you can‘t â€" don't say Coming Events write it and sign it! c4w46 c3w49 ; City Mem- adies’ first, Stanley J. Hall is the C.C.F. candidate. He resides in New- market, is a native of Toronto, was born and raised in Peel Coun- ty, farmed for a time near Sut- ton, and now is an employee of a meat packing company..An ac- tive member of the C.C.F. he is a director of the Credit Union Movement. He advocates planned development of York North rid- ing and in addition pledges full support to farmers’ marketing organizations and co-operatives. Following Monday night’s meeting with Vaughan Township Council and 200 ratepayers from the five‘com- bined northern subdivisions, Northolt, West Scott, Lan- Rich, Upland Gardens and the Boyle Subdivision, at which time Council went on record as supporting the southern route proposed by the C.N.R., the Markham-Vaughan Un- ited Ratepayers made the following statement: Advised of'the decision of the Vaughan Township Council not to support an alternate route for the C.N.R. by-pass line, a spokes- man for the Markham-Vaughan United Ratepayers Committee said, “This isn’t simply a Vaughan problem, it’s a community prob- lem and any freight line_through this area must be located where it will do the least damage to the fewest people.” “We have always maintained this and we feel that the C.N.R. should be required to examine every alternative route thoroughly and conscientiously from the standpoint of the com- munity as a whole regardless of township boundaries." “Our en- gineering committee is composed of eminently qualified men and they believe the alternative route is no more expensive than the C.N.R. route. possibly even cheaper." "The C.N.R. has not given detailed study to either route as yet so they are hardly in any position to ‘guess' at con~ struction costs." “The most im- portant consideration from the community standpoint is the number of homes affected in both townships." “This. alternative route comes within half a mile of less than half the number of homes in the community, actual- ly 1200 to 535." S. J. HALL l A. A. MACKENZIE J D. G. PLAXTON Voting in Ontario’s provincial election takes place next Thursday, June 11th; Polls in every subdivision are open from 9am. to 8 p.111. déylight saving time. In the riding of York North, which includes all of the County of York north of Steele’s Avenue, there are three names on the ballot. . Asked what action is now plan- ned by the United Ratepayers group( the spokesman said, “As far as the community is concern- ed we now have Markham coun~ cil unanimously for the alterna- tive route and Vaughan opposed. Under these circumstances we will demand that the C.N.R. comâ€" pletely and thoroughly investi- York North Candidates June Iltli Markham - Vaughan Ratepayers Demand Costs Investigation gate costs of construction and properties affected in a half mile strip either side of their route VOLUME LXXX, NUMBER 49 my wwmumza w: awnn ioute, Vaughan Against Richmond Hill Lawn Bowl- ing Club has announced that the first tournament of the season will be held at the local green Wédnesday, June 10th. It will be men‘s treb- les. and the starting time will be 2 pm. FATALITIES 1 ACCIDENTS l INJURIES RICHMOND HILL ACCIDENT RECORD 3! Markham E Bowling Tournament 1959 The second name on the ballot is A. A. Mackenzie. He is the Conservative candidate and has represented York North\in the Legislature since 1945. A native son of the County he lives at Woodbridge, and is an exâ€"reeve of the village and a former mem- ber of York County Council. He is unmarried and his occupation is gardener. He is appealing for election on his record of service and the record of the Frost gov- ernment. and ours. We are convinced the costs are equal and we know there are less than half the num- ber of homes involved." Served‘School For 33 Years Harry Stanford Retires June by Mona Robertson When Harry Stanford, head caretaker of the Rich- mond Hill High School, ‘commences a well-deserved retire- ment this month, the Town will experience the end of an era â€" for Harry Stanford has served the students of Rich- mond Hill, the staff and the various boards of trustees at the high school for 33 years. He has been the ‘Mr. Chips’ in this high school district for the past two generations, having seen ‘his’ boys and girls graduate and later seen their children graduate from Richmond Hill High School. A quiet man, with a Soft smile and comfortable, easy- going manner that has won him hundreds of friends â€" especially among the students â€" during the passing years, Harry has seen many changes in the high school since he first went “on staff” in 1926. At that time the high school was composed of 10 rooms (which are now the centre part of the two-winged edifice) and there were 180 students in attendance. And Harry knew each one by name, and their parents by name, too. On winter mornings he arose at 6 am. in order to arrive early at the school, build up the furnace and shovel the snow-drifted walks â€" and at noon hour he ladled out hot soup to the children who remained during lunch hour, with the boys seated on one side of the lunchroom, the girls on the other. - There werevno such things as vacuum cleaners, electric floor polishers and automatic stokers in those days, and the tiled floors were swept with a broom and cleaned and oiled and polished on hands and knees. “But there were always some of the boys who lik-‘ ed to help me, .vithout any thought of being paid for their help," Harry recalled, as we vis- ited him and his wife recently in their lovely garden on south Yonge St. His workday week was six days, and during the winter he would walk up to the school twice on Sunday to keep a care- fuf check on the fires. In 1950 when the first addition to the high school was made, George Taylor came on to the caretaking staff as Harry's assist- ant â€" and today, since the sec- ond addition has been erected, there are five full-time caretak- ers on staff. three women work- ing in the kitchen and cafeteria, “In Essentials Unity; in Non-Essentials -~ Liberty; RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1959 Third on the ballot is Donald G. Plaxton, the Liberal candidate. He is 33 years of age, a lawyer practicing here and with muni- cipal experience on Richmond Hill Council and York County Council. Married with three chil- dren he lives on Sugar Maple Lane, Richmond Hill. Campaign- ing on the Liberal party platform he has emphasized the need for more attention to local problems by the Ontario government_ and opposition to Metro domination. We asked Mr. Stanford to'tell us a little about his background, before coming to Richmond Hill and he told us of his birth place, in Bedfordshire, England, where he was born on the Duke of Bed- ford’s estate at Woburn. He was one of a large family of children but he was the only member of his family who had the 'urge to travel about a bit and see the world. So he brought his wife out to Canada and farmed on the Duncan Farm at Richvale for 11 years until the farm was sold and he moved his wife and children to Richmond Hill and began work- ing for the high school. In Choir and Warden and_a miatrqnfl is a1so employed The Stanfords have been assoc- iated with St. Mary's Anglican Church ever since moving into this district, and Harry has been a member of the choir (a tenor) for the past 43 years. For 20 ,1 (Continued on Page 3) Brian Smith, winner of the local Teenage Driving Rodeo held May 18th and sponsor- ed by the Lions Club and Jaycees competed last Satur- day in the provincial safe driving contest at Windsor. He made an excellent show- ing against 61 competitors & won praise from a panel of 11 judges. Top provincial honors went to 19 year old Joe Sebestik of Guelph who chalked up 591 out of a pos- sible 625 points. Safe Driving Competition 200 Ratepayers. Throng Council Sosson Opposing Northern Route Markham Discusses 2nd Mortgage Rates Cmuncil Supporis Views Richmond No. 23 is one of the oldest Masonic Lodges in Ontario with a history dating back to 1824, and its present charter is dated 1858. The old Masonic Hall on Yonge St. was erected in 1870 and the stone bearing this date now occupies a prominent place in the entrance of the new Crosby Avenue Temple. The impressive ceremony of dedication was carried out Mon- day evening by Most Worshipful Brother Harry L. Martyn, Ontario Grand Master, assisted by many Grand Lodge officers and in the presence of a large attendance of masons from Richmond and oth~ er district lodges. Preceding the dedication a ban- quet was served at the Yangtze Pagoda, and Ruling Master W. Bro. J1 L. Hollowell presided and extended a hearty welcome to the large number of guests. The in- vocation was by V. W. Bro. A. A. Eden, and distinguished visitors were introduced by W. Bro. Har- ry Sayers. The toast to the Grand Master was proposed by W. Bro. A. Rand Phipps and responded to by Most Worshipful Bro. Martin. The Grand Master extended con- gratulations to Richmond Lodge on the erection of such a fine new temple, and paid tribute to the long and outstanding history of the local lodge. Remarking on the remarkable growth of the community he predicted that a second lodge will soon be organ- ized here. Monday, June 1, was an historic occasion for Richmond Masonic Lodge, marking the official dedication of the new Masonic Temple on Crosby Avenue. The fine new struc- ture replaces the old building on Yonge Street which was sold last year and torn down to make way for a new office building. The toast to “Our proposed by W. Bro. vage and responded Lucky Winner Lions' Prize Grand Mm‘tey ' Dedicatgs The New Masonic Temple With Impressive Ceremony Although sympathetic with the proposal Markham Town- ship Council Monday did not pass a resolution to officially go on record as supporting Richmond Hill's demand for a Federal-Provincial govern- ment enquiry into second mortgage interest charges. Councillor J. MacNeil echo- ed the feelings of council when he remarked, “I hear- tily agree with the proposal". Terming it a “vicious racket" Councillor L. Mumberson felt it would be difficult to pass legislation stopping people from making loan arrange- ments among themselves. Solicitor J. D. Lucas felt the difficulty lay with indiv- iduals ‘buying homes with- out a sufficient down pay- ment and then financing the balance on a second mgrt- gage at high interest rates. Mr. Lucas remarked home purchasers must first satisfy C.M.H.C. that they have a sufiicient down payment and command a certain earning power. He felt there are 'al- ready government safe- guards against the charging of high interest rates. Miss Alice Matsui, Glad- stone Ave., Toronto, was the lucky winner of the grand prize at 'the draw held at the Thornhill Lions’ Bingo last Wednesday evening. The much coveted prize was $400 monthly for one Year, and the seller of the lucky ticket was Miss Evelyn Thorneycroft of Thornhill. Both the winner and the sell- er of the lucky ticket are members of the CBC staff in Toronto. The lucky ticket was drawn The lucky ticket was drawn by International Counsellor Jack Bentham. Officers and members of the Lions Club expressed satisfaction with the financial results of the draw, and are appreciative of the splendid support for'the public welfare work in the public district in all things Charity.” Guests” was Peter G. Sa- to by R. W. During the evening the draw will be made for the grand prize of a boat, and there will be many other feature attractions. "This will be the biggest bingo of the year and everything must go includingAthe golden liop. There _will be many valuable door prizes, and all the proceeds will go for Lions welfare work in the community. Richmond Hill Lions’ Club blg night is next Monday, June 8th. A record crowd is expected at Richmond Hill arena for the mon- ster annual Bingo with more than $1,000 offeyed in prizes._ Bro. Molson C. Cain 'Following the dedication the many visitors inspected the new temple and were unanimous in declaring it a credit to Richmond Lodge and the builder, John Grif- fin, of Griffin Construction 00., Richmond Hill. The new Temple located at 112 Crosby Avenue has a spacious lodge room on the up- per floor and below a large ban- quet hall. The building is equip- ped with modern kitchen, assem- bly room and wash rooms. W. Bro. Alan 0. White headed the committee in charge of the er- ection, of the new building. A business appointment of in- terest in this district was the announcement this week by J. B. Lubotta, President of Federal Discount Corporation Ltd.. that W. Edward Butlin of Richmond Hill has been made General Man- ager of the Corporation. Mr.'Butlin who is well known locally as a public sLirited citizen, active in youth and recreation ac- tivities, brings to his new position 20 years of overall experience in the field of sales finance. He will be located at the head office of the corporation at 185 Bay Street, Toronto. The‘ officers and directors of the Federal Discount Corporation includes another well known 10- cal citizen, Nelson P. Dean, who is the company treasurer. Mr. Butlin's many friends who join with “The Liberal” in exten- ding congratulations will be pleased to know that Mr. Butlin will continue to reside in Rich- m‘ond mu. .4. At Richmond Masonic Lodge Monday night a veter- anlmember of the Order was honored with the presenta- tion of a 60-year member- ship jewel.~ Mr.- W. Wt A. Trench, Church St., Rich- mond Hill, retired Public School Inspector, who has been a Mason for more than 61 years was the recipient of the honor. The presentation was made by R. W. Bro. Dick- son, Grand Secretary at the request of the Grand Mas- ter, and was graciously ack- nowledged by Mr. Trench. Veteran Mason Honoured B UTLIN W. EDWARD Receives Appointment Lions’ Bingo HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 SINGLE COPY 10¢ Claim Safety Hazards Higher Costs Involved by Mona Robertson ‘ "We are not the people who brought'the C.N.R. into this township â€" nor do we have any control over it -â€" We are your elected representatives and I am not sure of our powers in this matter. We have stated we have exhausted our efforts as a municipal council to support the wishes of the ratepayers _ . . BUT that doesn’t say we can’t go all out and say What we think is best for the township!” Mr. Svenningson prefixed his request for Council’s support by outlining briefly the reason for their appearing before Council. He said he represented five rate- payer groups, ‘Northolt, West Scott, Lain-Rich, Uplands Gardens and the Boyle Subdivision. Survey Northern Route This was the firm statement Reeve John Perry made before a delegation of 200 ratepayers who crowded into the Vaughan Township council chamber, overflowed into the large corridor and even stood on the steps leading into the foyer, at-council’s regular session on Monday nightL “Last Thursday, May 28,” Mr. Svenningson, stated, ‘it was brought to our attention that sur- veyors of the C.N.R. were sur- veying the Chapman Farm. We called Mr. J. L. Cann, the C.N.R. Project Director ’for' the new marshaling yards to the .west of Keele' Street and ‘the route to these éards. 'A group of us met with him on Thursday evening, and he explained that although expropriation proceedings had ta- ken place for the southern route, as announced in the press, March 11. 1959, strong pressure is being exerted on the C.N.R. to adopt a line which would run north of the present proposed line.‘ He emphasized that the C.N.R. wish- ed to use the original line, but as considerable pressure was being brought to bear, there was a dis- tinct possibility that the northern route would be used." A crowd which had heard its spokesman, Van B. Svenningson declare, “We request that'the Vaughan Town- ship Council pass a resolution supporting the original southern route as proposed by the C.N.R., March 11, 1959, and are opposed to any other rbute.” - (2) The northern route will take an additional 3 to 5 miles to reach the yard from the east. (3) Track maintenance for these ad- ditional miles of track: an item which would add considerable costs in operation over the years. Mr. Svenningson said the nor- thern residents fully appreciated the feelings of the group (south- ern) that is objecting to the sou- thern route, but maintained that the northern route will not only affect approximately. the same number of properties as the sou- thern route, but (1) that it will cost the people of Canada $4 mil- lion more to put through the nor- thern route. (4) The northern route has four very severe curves. (5) The sou- thern route will run in a cut un- der Yonge Street and below ground level in Vaughan; where- as the northern route would be bridged over Yonge Street. and would be raised above ground level in a built up residential area; increasing the noise factor Having carefully considered the alternative route proposal. pre- pared hy engineering represen- tatives of the United R'atepayers’ Committee with the collaboration of the C.N.R. engineering staff, Markham Township Council re- cently voted unanimously to sup- port the alternative route. The opinion of the Council, expressed by Deputy-reeve Wilfred. Dean is that the aIternative route pro- posal must be judged on the basâ€" is of doing the least,damage to the community as a whole, re- gardless of township boundaries. Since the alternative route comes within half a mile of only 500 homes as opposed to 1,200 homes for the C.N.R. route, we heartily support this proposal, he .aid. “The report that V W ban Ask Arbitration By Federal GOV. 0n Route Of Line Markham Township Deputy-reeve Wilfred R. Dean stated today that his council will request the Federal Government to arbitrate the growing dispute as to the location of the proposed C.N.R. railline. COMING TO THE RICHMOND ALL WEEK JUNE 8 T0 I3 AI. CAPONE comes ,y 500 to me! re- and ies. the immeasurably more on the nor- thern route than on the south- ern route. (6) The southern route is the most direct route to the marshalling yards. “We have a letter from the pre- sident of the C.N.R.." Mr. Sven- ningson continued, "stating that the original southern route, south of Thornhill Village is the most economical, but very strong presn sure has been exerted to move in north of the proposed C.N.R. route.” final route proposed ,and further, ,t is our understanding that the ,vast majority of those most gi- rectly affected by the southern route in Vaughan Township have become reconciled to accepting the so'uthei‘n route." On behalf of the steering-com- mittee and ratepayers present he concluded, “We strongly object to any route other than the sou- thern route, as we believe the southern route to be the most suitable.” He then outlined the proposal that Council pass a res- olution supporting the south route. Reeve Asks For Opinions Reeve Perry told Mr. Svenn- ingson the brief was well pre- sented and stated, “We have been dealing with this problem since March 11 and this .is the largest delegation we have had in these offices. If anyone has anything to say they/ may do so. Perhaps the members of council would speak to it. I am not sure we are ready tonight to act on this pnob- lem.” ‘ Councillor Anstey then remark- ed, “1 have spent a great deal 0: time with the C.N.R. as chair- man of planning for the township and I have gone over both the proposed routes â€"- and have to .agree with what your spokesman has said tonight. He left out one more point, that if‘the C.N.R. in their new line use present rails they do not have to separate the grades. I think that’s a very im- portant point.” “The new route affects a far greater number of residents in Vaughan Township than the orig- Vitregaraing level crossings Mr. Anstey said, “It would be a very (Continued on Page 3) , “The Tom and Vaughan most unfortu C.N.R. plans : up to the rail ment of Trax and beefi and ‘ their make a level,"_ deputy C01 foi'wai-ded to Mr. Gor 1e Honourable Mr. Hees immediate action. an ort hips of ave been put te position b: the Dep Markham ion bl