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MARCH 15 â€" Tuesday 8 pm. The Annual Meeting of the Rich- mond Hill Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society in the auditorium of the Richmond Hill Library. The public is invited to attend. Guest speaker, Maurice J. Grimes, Ex- ecutive Director of the Ontario Division. Refreshments. c3w35 * at a: :- MARCH 27 â€" Sunday 2 pm. The Richmond Hill Unit of the Can- adian Cancer Society is sponsor- ing the showing of a film for Women Only at the Richmond Theatre. No admission charge. c5w35 Present at Monday nights Council meeting in Vaughan Township Chambers was Mr. Warren Bailey who lives at Con- cord. Mr. Bailey had been elected chairman of the Anti-Liquor Bri- gade, to be known officially as the “Vote No. Committee." Since the- chairman of the “Vote Yes. Committee” is Mr. Brian Bailey, the liquor control vote may develop into a battle of the Baileys and may create some confusion. Voters who meet either Mr. Bailey will be asking. "Are you the “Yes” Mr. Bailey, or are you the "No" Mr. Bailey. To which Mr. Bailey may réply, “Yes, I mean “No’fior “No” I mean “Yes.” If you get what we mean? Rather confusing though isn't it? NORTH YORK â€" The North York Ba‘nson Hospital School of Nursing was officially opened on the first of February. It cost $325,000. to build the 60-bed dor- mitory and training centre. MARCH 15 â€" Tuesday 8.30 pm. The I.B.M. Glee Club presents Gilbert and sullivan‘s ‘H.M.S. Pinafore in the auditorium of the Thornhill United Church. Adults $1.00, students_ 75c. c3w35 Reeve John Perry asked the Vote No Mr. Bailey if he wished to address Council. Mr. Bailey in- dicated that he did not wish to do so at this time. The Vote “No” Mr. Bailey con- siders that his side‘s chances at the poll are good, but, he told “The Liberal’ it will depend upâ€" on the weight of the vote. A small turnout will favour the other side. A large turn out will favour the Vote No cam- paign. MARCH 9 -â€" Wednesday. Jeffer- School Community Club euchre at 8 pm. Attractive prizes, re- freshments. everyone welcome. c2w35 MARCH 2 -- Wednesday at 9 pm. Walter Scott Public School Auditorium. mm show for home owners and construction workers, builders, planning 'boards, etc. See winter work in progress from Alberta to Montreal. Everybody welcome â€" no charge. c1w35 FEBRUARY Square Danc McConaghy 8 pm. MARCH All ish City. cents‘ MARCH Women's Beauty welcome. Vaughan liquor Vote ing c come FEBRUARY Scouts till 9 Battle Of The Baileys plays, éolle every hour“ FEBRUARY Toronto Society the Sum St. N ort Bridge and Help of Cl res. 8.30 1 freshments‘ FEBRUARY 14-28 â€"- Exhibit of paintings by Otto N. Grebze at the Richmond Hill Public Library Art Gallery, during library hours and on Sunday 2-5 pm. c3w33 t a: n: t FEBRUARY 26 â€" Friday. C.W.L. EVERY TUESDAY â€" Bingo, 8 pm. at the new Legion Hall, Oak Ridges Shopping Plaza. Cash prizes and Jackpot. tfcl9 EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT â€" Dancing,Modern and Olde Tyme. At Maple Community Hall. Music by Art Celsie and his Singing Plainsmen â€" stars of TV and Radio. Admission $1.00. Free parking. tfc18 EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT â€" 9.00 pm. - 12.00, Dancing to Max Cameron’s Orchestra, at Canad- ian Legion Hall. Camille Road. Richvale. Sponsored by Rich- mond Hill Branch 375. Canadian Legion. 75¢ per person tfc36 fonto and District Glad :iety will meet ai: 8:15 p.i Summit Restaurant on Y North of Richmond Hill. W. Siebert of Elmira will illustrated _talk on “The s of Gladioll." Everyone Saints Hall, annual all, South Admission: p.m. Arts collections Authorized Ford, Falcon, Monarch Dealer ARY 27 Hobby 1 5 League visitors' a. Baby 5 ARY 26 â€" l and Euchre Christians, Willowdale - BA. 5-1151 Coming Evefits AUTOMOBILE REPAIRS .. . NIGHT PARTS TILL 10 RM. FINCH MOTORS LTD.â€" Arts and c tions, model‘ on the hour. ' 26 â€" Friday. C.‘ Euchre at Our ] ristians, Beverley .m. Door prizes, Admission 50c. c] 29, â€" Monday‘ as. Special Dal School startix Tuesday‘ Tuesday. ’ancake : A. in. the h Keele I â€" Saturday. Show, from 2 ts and crafts e of } day. sitters â€"- Friday, The trict Gladiolus a‘t 8:15 pm. at $1.25 Health _and All ' ladies I available. a1 Dance starting clw , 5.30 to Supper s new Pa St., Ki] 2.30 p.m ay at 9 3 School or home workers, pper of ew Par- t., King and 60 fts dis- Movies. c1w35 clw35 Yonge 1. Rev. 11 give show- : wel- c1w35 Lady 2y Ac- :s, re- c1w35 Boy The special guest at the Con-‘ vention was Mr. Sigurd Olsén. Mr. Olsen is perhaps America's most famous woodsman, voyager and author today. The main speaker during the three day meeting he spoke on the subject of “Wilderness in the Space Age" which would indicate that Natur- alists are keeping in touch .vith scientific discovery and progress. Mr. Olsen told the meeting, "In this era of exploding ideologies, it is imperative that we do all we can to preserve in any way we can those values which give mankind a sense of reality and purpose. In wilderness we do find such values and in the reser- vations we have made we are protecting our sure means of pre- serving stability and balance." Amongst the films shown dur- inf,r the meeting, some of the lat- est natural history films just re« eased by the National Film Board were incuded. Welcoming the Naturalists tn Forty Jaycees and friends left Richmond Hill before daybreak and arrived at Shatz Bay to find the clefk to Barrie City Council, Mr. Ben Straughan waiting on behalf of Mayor Kinzie of Barrie to greet the party and Mayor Ken Tomlin of Richmond Hill who is this year’s Jaycee Hon. President. The Mayor of Richmond Hill was scheduled to engage in a fish catching contest with the Mayor of Barrie. Mayor Versus Clerk The Richmond Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce held its Annual Fishing Derby at Shatz Bay. Lakg Simcoe on St. Valen- tine’s Day. As was expected about 500 members attended the 28th Annual Convention of the Federation of Naturalists held at Richmond Hill last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. e many activities the members enjoyed were of partic- ular interest. Richmond Hill Naturalists put out the Welcome Mat and accomplished a splendid job in acting host. Mayor K. Tomlin Weicomes Naturalists To Successful Richmond Hill Convention Because Barrie’s Mayor could Mayor K. W. Tomlin of‘ Richmond Hill and Mr. Straughan, Clerk to Battle City Council deputizing for the Mayor of Barrie, share a can of sardines given RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25,.1960 HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 SINGLE COPY 10c 354' 30!” June/1 â€" grad/1 j‘om 3/1,? a VOLUME LXXXI, NUMBER 35 Cecil Williams caught the lar- gest fish of the day but got on John Turner’s line. A subsequent vote on the issue called it a draw so that both Cec Williams and not attend, the Clerk competed in his place. Throughout the mor- ning only a few white fish were caught by the contestants. So that they should not go hungry by this lack of results, The May- or and Mr. Straughan were pre- sented tins of sardines by Jay- cee John Turner, Past President. Trout Escapes Only 18 fish were caught dur- ing the Derby - the biggest fish of the day hooked by Founder President Eric Brewer making a successful escape. It was a trout estimaged at ten' pounds. yention here is the first in our history." Mr. Tomlin‘ assured the meeting that the areas within the municipality which are potential conservation areas will be k’épt as such. He expressed the hope the efforts of the Naturalists to bring conservation to Ontario as a whole would continue success- ful. happy.” He 1 number of p who knew of the Federatim club was limj Convention b town with all by Richmond Hill J aycees when the two failed to catch enough fish for dinner, iii the “Mayor’s Fishing Contest”. eliminating this complaint). “Few fields of endeavour” said Mr. Tilt “can place themselves outside the realm of the naturalists if we are, as our name implies, interes- ted in. and a part of all natural phenomena, whether in the field of medicine, physics, electronics, botony or zoology.” Mr. Tilt sug- gested that radio-activity is a typical field in which a natural- ist should, perhaps, be interested because a naturalist dare not lim- it his ways of thinking if he hopes to understand a small part of his environment and contri- bute to the vast amounts of knowledge so necessary for his very existence. WOODBRIDGE â€"- Woodbridge Board of trade may ‘fold’ due to }ack of time and interest in hold- mg meetings. John Turner are the Jaycees Fishing champs. Presentation To Mayor The Barrie clerk commented that although Mayor Tomlin had failed to capture the Jaycee Fish- ing Trophy, he had been success- ful in creating a bond of friend- ship between the two municipal- ities. The Jaycees visit co--incided with Barrie’s Winter Carnival Week and the Barrie clerk sub- sequently sent souvenir bro- chures, medallions and a carni- val toque to Mayor Tomlin The gay colored toque was presented to Mayor Tomlin at Monday night’s council meeting by Jaycee Past President John Turnefl. “Big Daddy", the giant elm at the corner of Wellington Street East and Larmont St. in Aurora will not fall under the axe -â€"- yet, if the reeve and several Aurora council members have the de- ciding of the aged tree's fate. Said to be suifering from root rot, and called a ‘hazard’ by some members of council â€" it is jeal- ously guarded as one of Aurora’s loftiest monuments to the passâ€" ing of time. Reeve Clarence Davis links it with memories of his boyhood as must hundreds of Aurora-fies. “In Essentials Unity; in Non-Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity" SPARE THAT TREE! an ' Acting'or Patrol Sergeant â€"- to increase from present $4.é00.00 ‘This week Attorney-General Roberts asked R. B. Whitehead, registrar of loan companies, to study again the situation in On- tario to determine if the law against usury is being violated by any of those who lend mmey on the security of second or third mortgages. Richmond Hill Town 'Council Monday night unanimously adop- ted the report of the Police Com- mittee recommending increased pay for the force and some minor changes in working regulations. The report was presented by Councillor Tom Broadhurst in the absence of Deputy-reeve S. F. Tinker, who is still in the hos- pital. Sergeait -'to increase from the Present $4,600.00 per annum to $4,900.00; “I was pleased to note this week that the Attorney-General for Ontario has seen fit to request his department officials to take a new look at the second mort- gage situation" said Reeve W. J. Haggart at Richmond Hill Town Council Monday night. Last year Richmond Hill coun- cil passed a resolution asking for legislation or regulations to ‘goVern second ‘morgage lending. The resolution received support of many Ontario municipalities. In addition, he has ordered a study to determine if mortgage forms should be changed to give a clear picture of the financial burden the man will assume when he signs a mortgage. Councillor Broadhurst said the new schedule was arrived at af- ter consultation with represen- tatives of the Police. He said con- sideration had been given to the need for an efiicient force and the rates of pay in other munici- palities. The following ievised salary schedule wil become effective as of :Tanuary 1, 1960. Reeve W. J. Haggart comment- ed that Richmond Hill now will have the second highest paid pol- ice; force in the County. 7 Councillor Howard'Whillans said he thought the proposed scllgdule was a very fairione: Mayor 'I of having the public cussed in election. I very defin form that should be and Count To Investigate Usury Rates 0f SecondMortgages Town Council Approves New Rates Police Pay Mayor Tomlin said the matter of having all meetings open to the public was quite freely dis- cussed in the recent municipal election. Reeve Haggart had a very definite plank in his plat- form that all council meetings should be open to all ratepayers, and Councillor Whillans in his campaign stressed the value of Accept Tender Markham Rd. Sewer the p ings the p to tr all 11 press was for A communication from the School Board stated that last year a grant had been made to the Thornhaven School for Retarded Children and asked that council agree to meet a committee of the board to discuss the matter in camera. Mayor K. W. Tomlin and mem- bers of Richmond Hill Town Council Monday night gave a definite refusal to Richmond Hill Public School Board’s request for a secret meeting. Secret Meetings Not For Council Says The Mayor The contract price is $145,- 857.26 which is $106,440. be- low the highest tender. Sev- en tenders were opened at the council table and Mayor Tomlin and members of coun- cil commented on the wide variance in price. The projeét is still waiting for Ontario Municipal Board approval. Mayor Subject to the approval of the engineer and Works De- partment Richmond Hill Town Council Monday night accepted the tender of Bot Construction Company for the Markham Road storm sewer. s in camt principle transact 1 meetings iouncillor Brc ‘ surprised to a meeting in [ayor Tomlin policy of cow rinciple that ‘ msact public leetings are and public,” 5 camera )leased to note this the Attorney-General has seen fit to request lent officials to take at the second mort- on" said Reeve W. J. Richmond Hill Town nlin said council to Broadhurst read the camera. u said he request Probationary â€" to increase from present $3,300.00 per an- num to $3450.00. A few sturdiei‘ souls 16ft their cars and struggled through the lst Class â€" to increase from present $4200.00 per annum to $4,450.00. ' . 2nd Class -â€" to increase from present $3,900.00 per annum to $4,050.00. 3rd Class â€" to increase from present $3,600.00 per annum to $3,750.00. Friday, all day snow and blus- ter‘ arrested ‘ many homebound travellers north of John Street (some as far south as Steele’s Avenue) when their cars were caught in heavy drifting snow.. per annum to $4,650.00 blocked for almost a day. The local schools were dismissed shortly after noon on Friday so that all the public school pupils got safely to their homes. Most ogthe high school pupils were st nded either at Victoria Square Hall or in local homes. Dozens of motorists were strand- ed in homes or public places. Twenty men spent Friday night in Gormley garage. Naturally no mail was received on‘ Saturday. People on skiis and snowshoes - others pulling toboggans - walk- ed over the top of eight and ten foot drifts to get supplies. Every one had time to stop and talk to his neighbour. Kindnesses to those who were stranded were much appreciated. Such emer- gencies cause us to stop in the fast rush of life, and realize the friendliness and good neighbour- liness that still exists. However, the noise of the bulldozers was a very welcome sound as they ar- rived late Saturday to roll back the walls of snow. Buttonville â€" (Mrs. G._Lea_f, Correspondent) In Richmond Hill. the Works Department did an excellent job in coping with the emergency and roads were opened with ex~ ceptional speed. Throughout the district it was the same story everywhere, block- ed roads and abandoned cars. Here’s how our district cor- respondents told of conditions typical of all York County com- munities. Gormley â€" (Mrs. C. Milsted, Correspondent The big event of the week-end was our big snow storm accom- paniedby gale force winds. All local roads were completely blocked for almost a dav. 'r‘hn Centre' Street East and Markâ€" ham Road were blocked and many cars were stuck in the snowbanks. Abandoned cars made work of snow plow crews more difficult and many had to be towed to lo- cal garages. By last Sunday calm reigned on Don Mills Road, and a good many local residents were able to relax after the worst storm to disrupt the community since Hur- ricane Hazel. The worst biizzard of the winter last Friday blocked roads in town and throughout the district and hundreds of home-coming work- ers had to park their tars and walk the, last part of the jurney. “Then we will meet the Public School Board at a public meet- ing,” said the Mayor. "Does it goncern public busi- ness and public funds?" asked the Mayor. “Yes,"’ answered Mrs. South- well. Councillor Mrs. Margaret S‘outhwell said she could tell council the nature of business but would prefer to do it in cam- era. Old Time Blizzard Blocks Roads In Town- 8" District publicity for public business “A committee is working on the establishment of a new hospital here,” said the Reeve. “and I suggest it would be appropriate to name it to: the my Plincc’i At Monday night’s Rich- mond Hill council meeting Reeve W. J. Haggart suggest- ed Richmond Hill’s proposed new hospital he named for the Prince born this week to Her Majesty the Queen. Name Hospital For New Prince Mayor K. W. Tomlin, with Councillors Tom Broadhurst, John Bradstock, and Mrs. South- well represented Richmond Hill; Reeve John Perry, Deputy Reeve Ryder and Dugald- McCowan, Planning Board Chairman rep- resented Vaughan Twp.; Reeve Wm. Parrish represented Ajax; Reeve J. V. Fry represented Markham Village, Deputy Reeve Wilfred Deane represented Markham Township; Reeve Glad- stome Shaw and Norman Black Planning Board Chairman rep- resented Toronto Gore; and Reeve Fred Armstrong repres- ented Woodbridge. It was generally agreed that the municipalities were not a- gainst planning as such. They ob- jected to autocratic control by one municipality over other neighbouring 'municipalities. The legality of such control was ques- tioned and it was suggested such control was unconstitutional. It was agreed that overall plan- ning should be the responsibility of the Government and not that of one municipality. All represen- tatives present agreed that they should combine and co-opel‘ate to resist being absorbed under the autocratic control of Metro ATo- Discussion cohtinued for two hours. Object Aubocratic Control The Provincial Government was accused of abdicating its au- thority and duties in Municipal Planning. That another munici- pality that of Metro-should have a considerable say and direction in the planning and development of other municipalities was de- clared to be unfair. Will Resist Being Absorbed Under the chairmanship of Reeve William Parish of Ajax Township, the Civic Chiefs and other members of thirteen fringe municipalities al‘oundeetropolitan Toronto met together Tuesday evening in Richmond Hill’s Council Chambers to discuss and define their attitude towards Metro’s 20 Year Plan for development of the area, includ- ing its planning. At the Crispin home, twelve people sought shelter. and Mr.- Crispin trekked through the storm to Jones’ store to buy provisions for them. ’Mrs. James McQuay kept the coffee pot hot through the night for eight people, and at Jones’ store four travellers spent the night and countless others were served tea and coffee. Oth- ers stayed at the McKay farm, Leafs and there were four at Norman Reid’s, with many others parking their cars at the local 'garages. Mr. Walter Brumwell and eight school children from the Norman Reid school bus he was driving sought shelter at a home north of Colt’s Corners on the sixth concession, and a Thornhill High School bus was stranded at A. W. Miller’s gateway on the third concession. but these students were able to walk to their homes near Headford. Mrs. Richard Tribbling, on her way home from the Richmond Hill school where she teaches an opportun- ity class left her car in drifts on the Elgin Sideroad and walked to the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Reid Brumwell, south of Victoria Square. Road crewé were on the job al day Saturday and most of Sunday and by late Sunday af- There were more than 40 cars in the quarter mile stretch from McQuay’s Garage to S. R. Pat- terson’s laneway. and countless others were pushed or taken by tow truck back to‘No. 7 highway, which was kept open for most of the night. blizgard to their own homes; others stayed with their cars un- til the snow plows released them late Saturday morning. . Fringe Municipalities Opposed Metro Control Ask Pianning By Prov. Local Women Honoured By F.O.N. The citation stated Dr. Hogg and Dr. Langstaf’f were made “Honorary Members”: “For outstanding service in furthering the aims and objectives of the F.0.N.” and for “local contributions”. Dr. Hogg, who is recognized as Canada’s foremost woman astronomer, is a professor of astronomy with the University of Toronto. Dr. Langstaff, who came to Rich- mond Hill as the bride of Dr. Rolph Langstaff, practised medicine here for many years until her retirement. Both these women have contributed greatly to furthering the F.O.N. in this area. Two of Richmond Hill’s most distinguished women residents were honoured by the 28th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, at the convention held in Richmond Hill last weekend. DR. HELEN S. HOGG At the conclusion of this \ ry wide discussion in which all pres- ent participated, two resolutions were moved, seconded and unani- mously agreed upon. The first was to the effect that “The Municipalities here assem- bled disagree with the fact that 13 fringe municipalities are sub- ject to planning control of the Metro Toronto Planning Board and request that these 13 muni- cipalities be withdrawn from the Metro Toronto Planning area and agree that planning should be by the 13 municipalities themselves under the supervision and con- trol of a Provincial Planning Board set up by the Ontario Gov- ernment. Motion by Mayor Tom- lin seconded by Reeve Perry was unanimously approved. Will Meet M. P. P. S. i ront. Any control should stem from the Government and all planning should be developed and processed by the Govern- ment. Resolutions Endorsed Av battle to decide who control who has opened in est. Second motion was tabled by Deputy Reeve Ryder, seconded by Deputy Reeve Deane and ap- proved unanimously. It declared that “A meeting of the fringe municipalities be arranged with our M. P. P.'s at Vaughan Town- ship Municipal Offices, Maple, Thursday next March 3rd at 8 Following this meeting it was decided to prepare a brief to present to Prime Minister Leslie Frost setting out the objections of the 13 municipalities to plan- ning control by Metro. Assisting Mr. Osborne in the task was a fel-low employee and neighbour, Mr. Bob Wilson and another neighbour, Earl Gard- ner. We might mention that Mr. Osborne and Mr. Wilson are only temporary residents of the! Lake. Their permanent homes are in the USA. Mr. Osborne managed to get down to the yard and was back shortly \with a dandy bull-dozer and commenced clearing the road from the South Road at Yonge Street entrance and by approx- imately 5 pm. had it cleared through to north on Bayview, much to the joy of residents, many of whom had not been vis- ited by baker or milkman. The gratitude of those residents goes to Mr. Osborne and his employer for a true community spirit in a time of real need. Many thanks to a mighty fine “guy” for a mighty fine job. Hats off to Mr. Elmer Osborne, Bayview Ave., Lake Wilcox, on Saturday Mr. Osborne, employed by a pipeline construction com- pany in Richmond Hill. phoned Whitchurch Township works de- partment to enquire when the residents could expect normal services after the terrific two-day storm. He was told late Sunday or possibly over Monday. He im- mediately got on the phone to his employer and explained the resi- dents’ plight. His employer told him if he could get to the yardI any equipment that would help was available. ternoon road conditions were fairly normal, and most laneways in the area had been cleared. Oak Ridges (MrS. E. Orton. Correspondent) DR. LILLIAN LANGSTAFF shall earn-