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1 BROTHERHUOD WEEK - FEB. 19-26 At their Wednesday meeting members gave approval by a 14 to 13 vote to a report presented by the Hospital Commission. It recOminended, as a first s‘ta‘g'e'in hospital expansion for the county, the extension of York County Hospital at Newmarket and the building of a hospital at Richmond Hill. That stage would have provided a total of 325 beds. Later stages would see the number of beds av- _ailabl_e_ in York increased to 700 by 1971. It was “on again - off again” for expansion of hospital facilities in York County last week, when county council first gave approval to a report of the York Hospital Com- mission which would have started action and then, the next day, reversed itself by rescinding the original ap- proval. ‘ - Also recommended was the issuance of debentures for $2,900,000. This amount, together with contributions from federal and provincial governments, would have provided $4,350,000 for the first stage. Under the terms of the re- port, it would have been left to the finance committee to study the imposition of a levy'for 1961. Says Noise Creator The new project would create a great deal of noise and traffic, said Mr_ Brewin. Mr. Timmins' claim was that it would afl’ect other properties in the village. Both suggested that they had not been given sufiicient notice of ‘ The closeness of the vote brought an overnight change of heart. Fearing that the 14-13 div- ision would leave bad feelings. Overnight Change Represented by F. A. Brewin, Toronto lawyer, a dele- gation of Thorn Height Park Home Owners Association members attended the council meeting. Also present was Chairman J. H. Timmins of the Thornhill Village Trus- tees. Both. Mr. Brewin and Mr. Timmins asked council to defer decision on the third reading, saying that they wanted further time to study the possible results. The group he represented, said Mr. Brewin, had already re- tained a consultant and wished to obtain expert advice on the conditions created by a similar venture in Scarborough and others in the United States. County Approves, Then Reverses Extension Of H osptal FacHies Residents of Thornhill who are opposed to the rezon- ing of land on Yonge Street which will permit the estab- lishment of a large discount store will now have to carry their fight to the Ontario Municipal Board. Meeting'on Monday afternoon, with Ward I Councillor A. Su’mner abâ€" sent, Markham Township Council members voted unani- mously to give third reading to the by-law which would permit the rezoning. The land,.which has been the centre of bitter debate in recent weeks, 'is situated on the east side of Yonge Street at the top of the hill running up from the river bed. It was formerly the site of the William H. Wright stables, where the mining millionaire who rose from butcher to become one of Canada’s wealthiest men kept his racehorses. Back Where It Slaried Can Carry Fight To 0MB Discount Store Land Change Gets OKâ€"Markham Councii VOLUME LXXXI, NUMBER 33 The Service of the Keys, marking the official open- ing and dedication of the new building of the Brown’s Corners United Church, was held last Sunday morning. The church located at the corner of No. 7 Highway and the Don Mills Road has had a long and distinguished record of Christian service to the residents of Markham Township. It was officially dedicated by the Rev. Roy Webster President of the Toronto Conference. ADVICE Ind ESTIMATE GAS HEATING OIL STORM DOORS, WINDOWS Home Comfort Series TU. 4-2892 Is Your Furnace Set To Its Efficiency Point Dedication Serviceâ€"Brown's Corners United Church Reeve William Sellers of Sutton and Reeve Norn Garriock of Woodbridge introduced a resolu- tion the next day recommending the rescinding of the original re- the project. That was not so, Reeve Wilfred Dean and other members of council asserted. They declared that it had been given a considerable amount of coverage in the press since the beginning of December. Advlsed that it would probab- Public Library, 56_Yonge N- . ly take a minimum of .a month to get a Municipal Board hearing, council members decided that the objectors would have plenty of timetq prepare a case even if they agreed to third reading of the by-law. That case, they said, could then be presented at the Municipal Board hearing, notice of which would be given to all those interested. Representatives of the projected discount store asked for earlier action. Mr. Ben Rosenberg saying that the sug- gested delay would be detrimen- tal businesswise. “What a shame,” said members of the del- egation loudly, forcing Reeve Dean to call for order in the council chamber. Says Others Favour With a two-thirds vote required to effect rescinding, only one member of council was not in favour - Reeve Sydney Lezge of Newmarket. On the last day of Itslfour-day session members of county coun- cil adopted another resolution, asking the provincial government to increase the percentage given to hospitals for capital expendi- tures. It was given unanimous en- dorsation. The government gives high grants to many projects, said Reeve Wilfred Dean of Markham Township in presenting it, in- cluding roads, bridges, welfare, and he felt that hospitals should draw at least as great a propor- solution. The report, they said; tion of provincial money. He was had been presented too fast and they felt that all members of county council should have a fur- ther chance to study the proposal. They were not against the hospi- tal plan. they asserted. but want- ed further information. There was no desire to force anything througéu they detlared.- fl Only one Against backed by Reeve Clarence Davis of Aurora, seconding the motion. All Out Of Order Members of council preceded their 14-13 vote in favour of hos- pital expansion by a lengthy de- bate which saw amendments, am- endrn‘entshto the amendments {and alteratio flying thick and fasfi flnvind h In and a 1'1an hrun-a nF Other area residents were in favour of the project, declared Reeve Dean after the delegation had left. "Our school taxes need this help," he declared as he es- timated that it would bring in fifty to sixty thousand dollars yearly in taxes, (The same estim- ate was made by Councillor Chas. Hooper, speaking while the dele- gation was present.) There was a lot of tax free property in Ward One, Reeve Dean declared, including the jail farm and the cemetery, and the revenue was needed by other taxpayers. “We would be ques- tioned by people in the rest of the township if we didn’t act," he asserted. Taking part in the impressive service are left to right, Architect Kenneth Cameron, Contractor Frank Speckert, Chairman John Brown of the Board of Trus- tees, Rev. Webster, Dr. A. F. Binnington, Minister of the Church, Building Committee Treasurer Norman Reid, Building Committee Chairman Henry Coleman and Walter Craig representing the Board of Stewards. -â€" Photo by Lagerquist “In Essentials RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1961 IWEWL ” Unity: in Non-Essentials Liberty: in all things Charity" Members of council preceded their 14-13 vote in favour of hos- pital expansion by a lengthy de- bate which saw amendments, am- endm‘entshto the amendments {zed alteratio flying thick and iasn‘ during t o and a half hours of discussion. Main plank of the op- position was that, while Addition- al hospital accommodation was beyond any doubt desirable, tax- payers simply could not afford any further tax increases at the present time. The forest of amendments and alterations grew so dense that County Solicitor Douglas Lucas was called on for an opinion. Ev- erybody was out 'of order, he declared. As a result of his advice the report was passed _back into open .council from committee. There the 14-13 vote in favour - the one to be rescinded the next day - took place. Need Said Paramount The need for more hospital fac- ilities was paramount, said Mrs. Elton Armstrong, wife of a for- mer Reeve of King Township and a member of the York Hospital Commission. Halls in the present hospital at Newmarket were, she said, so full of beds that it was a problem to get past them. Pa- tientslwere being turned out of hospitals too soon, she declared. At the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Toronto & Region Conservation Authority held in Richmond Hill on February 9th, Mayor W. J. Haggart of Richmond Hill was elected vice-chairman of the Flood and Pollution Control Advisory Board. This marks the first time since the authority was formed in 1957 that a Richmond Hill representative has been el- ected to any position within the authority. The 1961 Chairman will be Deputy-reeve Grant Hender- son of Woodbridge. Effect of the two votes, one in favour of going ahead and the other rescinding the decision, is to put the hospital extension plan Iback exactly where it was prior to its consideration by York County Council. It remains as a proposal to council by the York Hospital Commission, subject to further discussion and voting, said County Clerk J. L. Smith. Mayor Haggart Vice-Chairman Flood Control munity directory of interest- ing'dales to remember in coming weeks, appears on page three of this issue. uC‘ COMING EVENTS omjng Evants.“ the com- The service was conducted by Rev. C. G. Higginson of Richmond 'Hill United Church who paid sin- cere tribute to the late Mr. Well- wood who gave a lifetime of de- voted service to the Christian ministry. Garbage dumps in York County could become a substantial mu- nicipal problem at any time in the near future. They were ripe for rat infestation, said Dr. R. M. King, Medical Officer of Health, presenting the report of the York County Health Unit to county council recently. He criticized also the methodsâ€"or lack thereofâ€" used in filling. There were ten garbage dumps in the county. Good dumping practice is practically non-exist- ent and little is being done on a systematic basis to maintain them in sanitary condition, or to re- Rev. Harold Everitt Wellwood, for the past twenty years a high- ly esteemed citizen of Richmond Hill, passed away Saturday, Feb- ruary 11th at the Open Gate Nur- sing Home, Highland Creek, af- ter a lengthy illness, and the funeral service was held Tues- day afternoon at the Wright and Taylor Chapel of the Pipher Fun- eral Home. . Born at Collins Bay, Ontario in 1876 the Rev. Harold E. Well- wood was the eldest son of the late Rev. Nathaniel Wellwood. Brought up in Methodist parson- ages, he graduated from Victoria University in Divinity in 1902 and commenced his ministry in Cop- per Cliff, Ontario. During his pastorate in Warminster, Ontario he married Miss Amy Ball in 1905. Mental illness was now the “number one health problem," said Dr. R. M. King, Medical Health Officer for York County, presenting his report to York County Council at its four-day session last week. He had a succession of charges in Chatsworth, Flesherton, Sun- derland, Aurora and COllier St. Barrie in the Methodist Church. Following Church Union he came to Toronto and preached in King- ston Road United Church for five years. Terms in Weston and Napanee followed and in 1940 he retired from the active church ministry and he and Mrs. Well- The opportunity now existed, he said, to provide a mental health clinic at a “bargain rate" of approximately one-third of the actual cost of the service. It would place the County of York in the vanguard of public service to citizens, Dr. King declared. York In Vanguard? Funeral Held Tuesdayâ€" Dumps Come Under Fire Of York County's M.O.H. lifetime In Ministry Ends Wth Passing Oi Rev. H. E. Wellwood Refer Mental Health Budget To Committee Still surprised over his find, the young post office employee hasn’t decided what to do with it and has yet to learn the gem'srvalue.“ Handsome young Larry Monkman of King City really has pearly teeth. As he was eating oyster stew served by his mother, Mrs. Thomas Monkman, his teeth bit on a pearl, An Aurora jeweller as- sured him it was a good one. Larry did not know which brand of tinned soup had in- cluded the unadvertised bon- us. He says he isn’t usually luc- ky finding valuables or win- ning prizes. But maybe there was a shade of luck last sum- mer when the King City Jun- ior Girls’ Softball Team he 'helped to coach won the cup for being the best of six teams entering the King- Vaughan-Whitchurch Lea- gue. H Congratulations, Larry! We‘ll all be out to the Lions’ Oyster Supper! Stressng the vafue of early King City Youth Finds Pearl County councillors referred the matter to the finance committee for study. treatment, the report of the M.O.H. asserted that, during the past year in the course of its rou- tinq health service, his unit had encountered 114 recognizable mental health problems. A budget for a proposed Men- tal Clinic was introduced. It call- ed for the expenditure of $35,642 during 1961. Of that amount the Province of Ontario would put up $23,642, leaving York Count cost at $12,000. . For the following fourteen years he was actively engaged as a representative of the Ontario Temperance Federation, travel- ling throughout Ontario on its behalf and rendering outstand- ing service. Seventeen months ago he suf- feted a stroke, and since then has been cared for at the Open Gate Nursing Home at Highland Creek. He passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 11th, 1961. He leaves to mourn his pas- sing, his son Macdonald Well- wood, and his daughter Evelyn (Mrs. W. A. Campbell) both of Toronto, three granddaughters and two great-grandsons, his sis- ter Mrs. George Gee, and three brothers Dr. Milton of B. 0., Dr. George of Barberton, Ohio, and Frank of Toronto. Interment took place at Rich- mond Hill Cemetery. The sanitary-land-fill method is an urgent and virtually indis- pensable method that all dump operators should be following on a daily basis, before the rat in- festation problem becomes an emergency, said the county’s M.O.H. In 1955 Rev. and Mrs. Well- wood celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. The fol- lowing year Mrs. Wellwood died. Because of failing eyesight in May of 1959 Mr. Wellwood moved to Clarkwood, the residence of Canadian National Institute for the Blind where he was able to help others while being benefit- ted himself. claim the filled area for useful purposes, said Dr. King. “Such dumps as are located close to residential areas are ripe for rat infestation and may, at any time in the near future, become sub- stantial municipal problems." Needed Daily wood came to Richmond Hill Controversialeoning Bylaw Referred Back Town Planners Briefs Critical Mr. Gordon Longhouse of Woodbridge has.been chosen to represent Vaughan and - Toronto-Gore Townships and . Woodbridge on the Metro Toronto Planning Board. The three municipalities were un- . . animously agreed that Mr. ' Longhouse would be impar- i I tial in all matters relating to . the planning policies of the to make their home with Mr. Wellwood’s sister, Mrs. George Gee, Centre Street East. Mr. Gordon Longhouse of Woodbridge has.been chosen to represent Vaughan and Toronto-Gore Townships and Woodbridge on the Metro Toronto Planning Board. The three municipalities were un- animously agreed that Mr. Longhouse would be impar- tial in all matters relating to the planning policies of the three areas. His name was mutually agreed upon by all parties at a January meeting. Mr. Longhouse replaces for- mer Vaughan Councillor W. (Bill) Anétey. HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 SINGLE COPY 10° If you ~» saw “Waters of the Moon" which was produced in the Lions Hall last week we think you’ll agree that “The Curtain Club” did themselves proud. It was not an easy play to produce and we feel we should pay trib- ute to the long hours of work extending over a period of many “The remnants of middleclass respectability,”, Mary Monks (Helen Lancaster) and Carl Weinsheimer (Julius Winterhalter) shown above in a scene from the Curb?) Clubs highly successful production of “Waters of t e Moon”, presented at the Lions Hall last week. The play has been selected for the Central Ontario Drama Festival to be held at Hart House, beginning Monday, March 20th. â€"- Photo by Lagerquist Members of town council who were more or less favourable to the planning board zoning pro- posals bowed to the weight of public opinion. Deputy-reeve John Bradstock summed it up by saying that he thought a good solution for some of the zoning problems had been advanced but that property owners disagreed. Following the invitation ex- tended at the public meeting, council received a considerable number of briefs bearing on the proposed new zoning. Without exception they were critical of the plan, in one phase or another. Deciding to return the zoning plan to the planning board for further consideration, council members heard Councillor Tom Broadhurst suggest that the board should be given some indi- cation of what council wanted. “We’re meeting them next week, we can tell them then."- said Mayor .Haggart. Several Resolutions. Among the critical briefs receiv- ed was one from Jack Seaton Real Estate, representing 25 property owners in the section of Yonge Street affected by the sev- enty-foot setback proposal. Mr. Seaton, as he did at the recent public meeting, led the attack on the proposed zoning revision. “You need a little more faith in the people who are going ahead," he told councillors. Parking, he declared, should be arranged for The council chamber was well filled as the meeting started. At- tendance was not as large as at the public meeting held a couple of weeks ago, when the provisions of the revised zoning plan were thrown open for discussion. but still large enough to indicate live public interest. ‘ Many Briefs Received “We. should encourage the redeveloper instead of dis- couraging him as we have done up to now,” declared Mayor James Haggart at Monday night’s town council meeting. It was a meeting which lasted well over four hours and which saw the controversial zoning by-law requiring a seventy-foot setback in certain parts of Yonge Street sent back to the town planning board for revision. Waters Of The Moon Accepted For Regional Festival ‘ BELIEVE I'I'â€" I.IVE I'I'â€" SUPPOR'I' I'I' Gr/ MOR- POWER with trade UNLX AT CANADIAN TIRE DRY CHARGE . locks in all the 'olt power - until you buy it! 3 months insurance guarantee $14.95 It is hard to single out indi- vidual performers for special mention. Naturally the heaviest (Continued On Page 17) weeks which the director and the members of the cast put into this play. And all this at no fee what. ever. Their work is completely voluntary and unpaigl. at the rear of buildings. “You can write proper restrictions in- to the by-law," he decIared. A letter from a group in the Richmond Heights area. with 68 signatures attached, expressed disapproval of high-rise apart- ments. Like the 70-foot setback, this subject will be rediscussed by the planning board and coun- cil. Mayor Haggart asserted that the question of density of popu- lation had been over-emphasized. He promised to provide informa- tion for those concerned about taller apartments. Approve Apartment Buildings on the property were old and his project would improve the general character of the neighbourhood, the develop. er, T. A. McQueen wrote to the planning board in detailing his plans. Parking problems would not be created as 125% parking had been allowed for. ‘ Council, during its lengthy session, gave approval to one apartment project. The approval was made subject, however, to the opinion of the solicitor on certain legal points and to the approval of the works commis- sioner as to services. The project, to be situated on the north side of Richmond Street opposite the end of Elizabeth Street, came to town council with the blessing of the planning board. The board’s recommendation said that the numbenof suites was less than could have been pro- vided under the present by-law and that only 45 were planned in- stead of a possible 77. Area of the suites fell short of the re- quirements of the present layâ€"law although it was pointed out that there was compliance with tho proposed new byâ€"law. will Improve Area with trade in 12 Volt $18.95