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Mayor James Murray of Aurora Tuesday night proposed an an- nexation program to increase the town’s present acreage of 1400 to 4.000. Annexation of areas in King and Whitchurch Twp. to make the town two and a half miles square is proposed. SEALED TENDERS addressed to Secretary. Department of Public Works, Room B-322, Sir Charles Tupper Building, River- side Drive, Ottawa, and endors- ed “TENDER FOR REPAIR TO SOUTH WHARF, JACKSON'S POINT. COUNTY OF YORK, 0NT.", will he received until 3.00 PM. (E.S.'I‘.). WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1960. Chief Engineer, Room E443, Sir Charles I‘upper Building, Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ont, District Engineer, 225 Jarvis Street, Toronto 2. Ont, and can be seen at the Post Offices at Jackson's Point, Sutton, Beaver- ton, Newmarket and Barrie, Ont. Plans, specifications and forms of tender can be seen, or can be obtained through: To be considered each tender must â€" (a) be accompanied by one of the alternative securities called for in the tender documents. (b) be made on the printed forms supplied by the Depart- ment and in accordance with the conditions set forth therein. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. ROBERT FORTIER, Chief of Administrative Services and Secretary RE: TWP. 0F MARKHAM COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT Notice is hereby given of a hearing to be held by the Township of Markham Com- mittee of Adjustment at the Municipal Office, But- tonville, Gormley R. R. 2, Ontario, on Tuesday, the 25th day of October, 1960, at 8 o’clock pm. NOTICE OF HEARING .. OUR FILE CA/60/9 .. The application to be heard has been submitted by George Thos. Felgate, own-‘ er of a parcel of land, part of Lot 10 in Concession 4. The owner wishes to obtain permission to sever a lot with 82’ frontage by a depth of 200’ notwithstanding the provisions of By-law No. 1442, which requires a fron- tage of 100’. Signed written submis- sions on this application will be received by me, at this office, prior to the hearing. RE: TWP. 0F MARKHAM COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT Notice is hereby given of a hearing to be held by the Township of Markham Com- mittee of Adjustment at the Municipal Office, But- tonville, Gormley R. R. 2, Ontario, on Tuesday, the 25th day of October, 1960, at 8 o'clock p.m. Nature of Application ' The application to be heard has been submitted by the solicitors of the Estate of 1 G. C. Leitch, owner of Lot1 18, Registered Plan No. 2607. The owner wishes to obtain permission to divide the said parcel into two lots with frontages of 71’ and 129’ respectively by a depth of 483’ notwithstanding that the frontages are less than the 100’ as required by By- law No. 1442. Signed written submis- sions on this application will be received by me, at this office, prior to the hearing. AURORA ANNEXATION DON ANDREWS NOTICE OF HEARING OUR FILE CA/60/8 CHAS. HOOVER, Secretary, Committee of Adjustment Nature of Application TENDERS PLUMBING AND HEATING 22 Industrial Road Richmond Hill TU. 4-5368 CHAS. HOOVER, Secretary, Committee of Adjustment DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OTTAWA considered each tender By Alex Sjoberg The ‘Banner County of York’ produces many of America's fin- est livestock and one of Vau- ghan Township’s prominent per- sonalities, George Robson, man- ager, Shur-Gain demonstration farm, Maple, is vitally respons- ible for helping maintain York County’s enviable reputation in the agriculture world of basic re- search. practical testing and com- mercial proving. George Robsonâ€"Shurâ€"Gain Great Man In Agriculture Holding a Bachelor of Science of Agriculture degree from the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, and not yet quite 45 years old. George has racked up an imposing list of achievements in his specialized world. One is the fact that already he has been with Canada Packers for 20 years. On a basis of past experience there is no doubt that much more should be heard about him by the time he is ready to retire. As manager Of the 500-acre demonstration farm boasting the largest banked barn of its kind in the British Empire and which could hardly be replaced for less than $150,000, he supervises a staff of 15 employees who look after the many livestock, poul- try and field projects. His sup- ervisory work is concerned with soil and animal nutrition. dairy and beef cattle, swine, laying, hens. broiler chicks, turkeys and turkey broilers. The poultry di- vision (7.000 laying hens) pro- duces 75,000 dozen eggs annually and otherwise turns out some 20,000 broiler chicks, 15,000 ma- ture turkeys and 52,000 turkey broilers each year. Add to this I ‘ BY BOROTHV BARKER ‘I Both elderly people had been fairly efiervescing with excitement when they boarded the train at Winni- peg. Their joy was catching. In no time at all most of the passengers in the roomette car I occupied knew they were celebrating their Golden Wedding anniversary. 1 , ,1,-_‘l .- "VAC LCIDULMUAAAB VALVIL vvnvâ€"vp- . While the transcontinental train clicketyâ€"clacked across the prairie, they told me a fascinating tale of pioneer days. Their reminiscences were inspired by the sight of acres of devastation caused last fall, by an early blizzard. The ripened wheat, which had waved its golden glory in a glitter of harvest sunlight, lay like a blackened carpet for miles, ravaged by the blanket of snow that had only recently submitted to the warmth of a spring thaw. _ _ . 0,,I 4‘. LL- v; u NFL-41° an..." These Darby and Joan types were sorrowful at the sight, but not as amazed as I was at this great financial loss to western farmers. That was easy to understand for they had tussled with nature’s whims all the years of their youth. Dust and hail storms, drought and frost had many times dampened their spirits and fractured their bank account, but never their enthusiasm for, or faith in, that flat rich land they had chosen_ to conquer: Now his head rested lightly on her shoulder and little puffs of breath fluttered the handlebar mustache in rhythm with his gentle snores. In her lap she held his right hand in hers, while her topknot of silky white hair nodded above his sleeping profile. As they dozed I tried to imagine how those mascu- line hands had brought their six children into the world without benefit of either midwife or doctor; how they had guided horse-drawn ploughs in spring and stooked grain for threshing in the fall, had made fagots of straw to stoke the stove in their one-room shack by winter and tilled a small kitchen garden through the blazing heat of summer afternoons. ' I was in a romantic daze of yesteryear imagery when there was a muffled scream, “Harry, wake up, my teeth are gone.” “Great Scott, Dolly, it used to be your glasses I was always ahuntin’, now it’s your new store teeth”, said the old gentleman, shaking off his slumber and fumbling in his vest pocket for his own glasses. For all his blus- tery mood, he was gentle in his questioning of Where and when she had last seen the dentures. In some one of her books, Cornelia Otis Skinner once wrote that she attracted incidents as inevitably as a blue serge skirt attracts lint. My trouble is, that I can never figure out Whether I attract the incidents, or they attract me; for it wasn’t long before I, too, was involved in the hunt for the missing pearlies. I crawled on all fours up and down the aisle of the car searching and warning all passengers who entered en route to the diner to tread lightly. “Dolly” was sure the lost plates were in her lap when she dozed off. Sure- ly they must have bounced away when the train lurched, she contended. But for all our hunting with the porter’s flashlight under car seats and baggage, nary a bicuspid came to light. When I had just about made up my mind her be- loved would have to cut the bride’s food into small bits so that she could gum her victuals for the rest of their belated honeymoon, there was a victorious howl. “Har- ry” had found her teeth carefully wrapped in a facial tissue and stuffed into the soiled towel receptacle. I could hear his lecture of remonstrance and advice on the proper care and usage of a set of false teeth as I left for the lounge car. The incident did not alter the admiration I had gained for this mite of a woman. I discovered she was of noble birth and had come to Canada from her native Ireland to marry this adventuresome Englishman. Our country is a fine heritage for today’s youth because wo- men of her calibre struggled with great vats of hot lard and ashes to make soap; drew water for domestic use for miles by stone boat from sloughs and vanishing spring freshets and undertook to educate their children before the advent of one-room prairie schools. This tale she told sounded too much like fiction to be real, until one caught a glimpse of the lines in the couple’s interesting faces and saw their hands so gnarled from hard work. These bore witness to the truth of their story. I don’t suppose “Harry” will ever overcome his “Dolly’s” carelessness with her eye and mastication props. For when I returned from lunchem, grinning up at me from a flowered silken lap was a macabre porceâ€" lain smile and perched on a furrowed female forehead was a pair of steel rimmed glasses. Both honeymoon celebrants were sleepin oblivious of what I believed might prove to bg another impending crisis. the farm’s annual production of 250 breeding swine, 400 market pigs, 820,000 pounds of milk, plus 100 beef steers and 30 baby beef calves and the energy required to oversee a supporting cropping program â€" it is an understate- ment to say that he is a busy man. An interesting fact about the farm is that some 300 acres are tile-drained. Large Annual Crops The field projects themselves wealth of practical experience. He remembers that when he was 14, he took a flock of sheep alone to the C.N.E. in a freight car and that year too he showed the Grand Champ market steer at the Royal Winter Fair. At 16 he made another trip alone with a flock to the Chicago Fair. At 18 he was the official Lincoln sheep judge at the C.N.E., the youngest such judge on record up to that time, if not since. “4. \1 wwAAAu a . A . i Memorial Hall tober 4, at 2 President Mrs ing. The fol] were appointe ber bazaar; 1 Dooks (conver erspoon, Mrs. Burbidge, Mrs 111% - Mrs. J , K Mrs. J. McIn1 Bryson. Fish I inn Mr: A r The field projects themselves result in an annual hay crop of 17,000 bales. This year 100 acres were seeded with cats, 50 with corn and another fifty acres have been planted with fall wheat. The corn field keeps each of four silos filled with 100 tons of this George said that the primary purpose of the farm is to improve the quality of feeds. to improve farm, livestock and management procedures, to assess feed, fertil- izer, and management grograms grajn George got his start the pro- per way, by being born at Den- field. Ontario, 15 miles north of London where his father, Ernest Robson, now retired, operated a pedigreed livestock farm special- izing in beef Shorthorn cattle and the finest Lincoln sheep on the North American continent. The farm imported breeding sheep stock and sold the offspring to ranchers everywhere in Canada and the United States. Started Young EHchgi? ability“ to combine top performance with more efficient prqduction. . .. . . .L, .,,,, v By 19§5an1en he enrolled at O.A.C., George had emassed a In 1940 while at 0.A.C. he was on the college judging team which competed with similar teams from all the states in the U. S. He took first prize in beef cattle judging and third in horse judging and while he chalked up the greatest aggregate score, lost the competition by one solitary point. “That was a little hard to take," he admits ruefully. The year before he had acted as judge of all classes of livestock at the C.N.E. and was signally honour- ed by being appointed reserve sheep judge at the World’s Fair in San Francisco. A striking co- incidence is the fact that at the time of his birth in 1915 his fa- ther was acting as official sheep judge at the same fair. Also in 1940, George was judge at the National US. sheep show at Col- umbus, Ohio and since then has had the unique distinction of judging swine in Scotland. Circumstances caused him to‘ miss one term at college where. while he studied farm economics. bookkeeping and mechanics he specialized in field husbandry. In 1940, once graduated, he ac- cepted a position with the pro- duction division of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and spent a year in Toronto as wool and hog-grader. In July, 1941 he joined Canada Packers as man- ager of its Shur-Gain farm near Weston on Lawrence Avenue. In 1953 after that farm had been sold for subdivision purposes, he came to the farm at Maple, pur- chased that year by the same company. Since 1950 George has made four trips to Britain for the pur- chase of pedigreed swine. He said that through a combination of better feeding, breeding and management over 80 per cent of the farm’s swine fall into the Grade A category. About one- third the swine are sold for breeding purposes while the rest becomes bacon. Last July a group of farm experts from Russia bought a number of the farm’s swine for breeding purposes. Sons Follow Dad George’s love for his work has carried over to his sons Bob, 17 and Bill. 14, while seven-year-old George Junior seems to be devel- oping his brothers' and father's vocational traits. Bob and Bill are active in 4-H work and as George put it: “Rightly or wrongly, they intend to go to O.A.C. too.” Last year Bob took first prize in his 4-H dairy project for York Coun- ty. Bill is proud owner of a calf which comes from the Massey Ferguson farm at Milliken. The boys also raise Shetland ponies imported for them by their father. Sharing the men’s farm inter- ests is Mrs. Robson, the former Margaret Webb, also born near London. George pointed out that the farm has accommodation for eight families and that the nine turkey barns, pole barn, imple- ment sheds and office are mo- dern in every sense of the word. “The farm was originally five IOU-acre holdings," he added. They were owned by Alf Rumble, Bill Monks, C. Minton, Peter Mc- Naughton and E. W. C. Matheson. Each year George welcomes thousands of visitors. “They come from every part of the globe," he said. He is happy about visitors. As he said, the visitors not only enable farm staffers to exchange ideas with other sections of the world, but they do a great deal of good in the public relations sense. Another member of this busy farm is Rover, a black and white collie cow dog who spends most of her time around the stable yards and who, when some of the cattle stray unto forbidden terri- tory, is after them like a dark1 silent thunderbolt. When we took our leave George was examining a prize bull pur- chased at the age of two weeks for something in the neighbour- hood of $1,500.00. “It's a great life here," were his parting words. "A wonderful place to bring up children. I tried the city once but don’t intend to repeat the experiment.” Two of the original farm em- ployees. Lorne and Ambrose Langley who between them have spent 32 years there, are still around, valued members of the staff. Assistant manager is Smythes. Wally Meyer and Bob Murray are the nutritionists. ' Fine Don “' Owners $20.00 Two dogs, a dead duck and a fatally injured chick- en were involved in an hour- long court debate at Button- ville on Friday morning. Charged with permitting their dogs to run at large were Mr. Maxwell Hinton and Mr. N. G. Gregorash, both of Duncan Road. near Bayview. They were repres- ented by their wives. Evi- dence was presented to Mag- istrate N. P. Kelley by a nearby neighbour, John Brash. Mr. Brash stated that he followed the dogs to the Duncan Road homes after a duck and a chicken had been killed on his property. He described the animals. The charges were laid by Mark- ham Township Dog Control Officer, Ron Herd. After listening to a leng- thy denial‘ of the charge. Magistrate Kelley levied a fine of $10.00 'and costs against each owner. The regular meeting of Vel- lore Senior Institute was held in Memorial Hall on Tuesday, 0c- tober 4, at 2 p.m., with Vice- President Mrs. G. Dooks presid- ing. The following committees were appointed for the Novem- ber bazaar; Aprons - Mrs. G. Dooks (convenor), Mrs. E. Wth- erspoon, Mrs. B. Farr, Mrs. G. Burbidge, Mrs. R. Phillips. Bak- ing - Mrs. J. Kyle, Mrs. J. Julian, Mrs. J. McIntyre, Mrs. J. Mur- up ‘ Bryson. Fish Pond - Mrs. R. Jul- Vellore Senior W.|. Plan For November Bazaar ian, Mrs. A. Cameron Sn, Touch and Take - Mrs. A. Cameron Jr., Mrs. K. Tilley. Miscellaneous - Mrs. J. Williams, Mrs. N. Kerr. Candy - Junior girls with Miss F. Gooderham as supervsor. Visitors at the meeting were Mrs. H. Wood and Mrs. E. Roden, district president and secretary, who both left interesting mes- sages. The program topic was agri- culture and Canadian industries. Mrs. A. Bishop presided as con- venor. Mrs. A. Cameron Sr. spoke on the motto, "To Love Col. G. H. Basher Dies At Whitby Col. G. Hedley Basher, for many years governor of Lang- staff Jail Farm died at his home in Whitby, Sunday, October 9th at the age of 69. While living at Langstaff he took an active in- terest in community life was a Past President Of Richmond Hill Agricultural Society. C01. Basher was born in Corn- wall, England, and came to To- ronto to join the police depart- ment in 1913. The. following year he enlisted in the Queen’s Own Rifles, going overseas as a corpor- al. He was commissioned a lieu- tenant in England, and served in France, Egypt and Salonika, be- ing twice mentioned in dispat- ches. Later, he was sent to France, at 24, as governor of a military prison containing 1,000 men. On his return home. he was appoint- ed governor of the Don Jail, then superintendent of the Langstaff Jail Farm. In 1939 he went overseas as commanding officer of the Royal Regiment, serving in Iceland, England and Italv. He was award- ed the Order of the British Em- pire for his servicesn Appointed a special investiga- tor for the Department of Reform after the war, he was superinten- dent of Guelph Reformatory from 1946 until appointed deputy min- ister of Reform Institutions in 1952 and retired in 1959. Col. Basher leaves his wife, Dora,-and two daughters, Mrs. J. B. Mitchell of Whitby and Mrs. D. M. Warner of Stoney Creek. R. . LITTLE & SON’S D 33R» “1"2’fil‘i‘l" here's the kind of buy you'll get! BRAND NEW FALCON SEDAN Reg. List 52 ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICE SALE ENDS SATURDAY, OCT. 15 at 6 PM. R. um: & sou In yet Ihe deal of your life during DAYS * ONLY LEFT RICHMOND I-III.I. AV. 5-1105 PA. I My Land and Work It With My Utmost Skill." Mrs. A. Bishop gave an inter- esting paper speaking on the Industrial Revolution we have passed through during the last 50 years. She said the advances of industry have given us time to enjoy our comforts. Mrs. J. McIntyre read a hum- orous poem on a man’s views of “The Institute" Mrs. R. Julian gave a paper on The Farm of Long Ago â€"- when the reaper was developed and how wonderful it seemed. Now we have much modern equipment. ’The committee ved refreshments To Officially Open Pleasantville School Senior Citizens Need Drivers One Day Monthly The word has gone out that there is a shortage of “volunteer” drivers â€" to transport Richmond Hill Sen- ior Citizens to their monthly meeting held in the United Church Hall. It’s just a case of driving ‘once in a blue moon,’ but Mrs. Helen Fettes, at TUrner 4-2872 says, “Our drivers' list is sadly depleted this year and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who could drive some of the mem- bers to the hall at 2 o’clock and then take them home a- gain around 4.” And remem- ber, they only hold these monthly meetings â€"â€" to which every member goes if he or she can possibly get there â€"- one Wednesday af- ternoon a month. Doesn’t ev- en make that little spot of public service a chore, does it? The public is invited to attend the official opening of the new Pleasantville Public School â€"- named for the subdivision in which it is located -â€"- on Wednesday ev- ening, October 19th, at 8 pm. This is Richmond Hill’s sixth public school, and its principalrisiMr.‘ D_ua_rd Boss. Comprised of eight class- rooms, a teachers’ room, a nurses’ room and a gymnas- ium-auditorium with stage, the school is now accommod- ating 265 students from kin- dergarten age to grade 8, and existing services are ade- quate for a future addition. Mr. Gordon McIntyre, Sup- erintendent of Richmond Hill Public Schools will introduce the distinguished speaker of the evening, Dr. Helen S. Hogg. THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, October 13, 1960 9, FREE BONUS GIFT to $200. FREE '61 LICENSE PLATES (WHEN ISSUED) 5% FINANCE CHARGES in charge ser- at the close. IN VALUE WITH EVERY CAR OVER $1,000 IN VALUE Fined $60.00 Killed Four Robins COUNTY PLANNING Newmarket Deputy-reeve Mrs. Caroline Ion speaking in Aurora Tuesday night, predicted that York County will establish a County Planning Board at the November session. A Toronto hunter was fined $60.00 in Magistrate's Court at Buttonville on Friday morning for shooting four robins. Arturo Carlesimo. 40, pleaded guilty to the charge laid by Norman Sitwell. an officer of the Department of Lands and Forests, under the Migratory Birds' Act. The officer stated that he discovered the birds. four robins and two crows in the trunk of the defendant’s car. A 12 gauge shotgun was seized. “It's unbelievable that any- one would kill these birds," said Magistrate N. P. Kelley. He contended that it was regrettable that such per- sons were granted hunting licenses when they are ob- viously unfamiliar with the game laws in the Provnce. The accused said that he had not realized that he had com- mitted an offense. He had resided in Canada for the past nine years. “Ignorance is no excuse," noted the Magistrate. “This is a very serious offense that could carry a fine as high as $1,000," he continued. Ofl‘icer Sitwell informed tha Court that a school had been established in Toronto to provide New Canadians with the rules and regula- tions of Ontario game laws. The Magistrate recommend- ed that the defendant should attend. PA. 1-5001 $2145. Reg. List $2495. Cook Wanted - - CLASS MALE COOK for York Manor Home For The Aged will be received by the undersigned up until Octo- ber 18, 1960. Apply in writing stating experience, salary expected and references. YORK MANOR HOME FOR THE AGED Applications for a FIRST P. Wilde, Superintendent York Manor For the Aged Newmarket, Ontario. FOR ONE YEAR LTD.