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“Dear Mr. Editor" Dear Mr. Editor: We do believe that the people May we be so bold as to ask of this town would welcome a who is responsible for deciding chance to vote on this issue and the fluoridation issue in Rich- we are indeed sorry to see this mond Hill? iright denied them by five We were extremely pleased people who cannot make a dec- go hear that the people were to ision and stick by it. e allowed to vote on this issue _. . . ~ in the forthcoming election but Fluoude 15‘ "(mung new It we now understand that our has ex1$ted in a natural state council has allowed themselves in some water supplies in this to be swayed from their initial country for as long as we have decision by a small group of been here to consume it. Fluor- anti-fluoridationists. We do not idation is endorsed by both the believe that this group was rep- American and Canadian Medic- resentative of the public body. a1 and Dental Association and Dentists Endorse Fluoridation The development of a railway commuter service is of particular interest to the many people who reside in the suburban areas and work in Metro. In a mail survey sent out by York North federal member John Addison last year 6,000 York County residents signified their in- terest in a railway commuter service similar to the facilities available in most large American cities. At the October meeting of the Elgin Park Ratepayers Association in Richmond Hill the members questioned Mayor William Neal and Councillor Walter Scudds regarding the future possi- bilities of such a service for this area. The Robarts Government launched a study of the transport services in the Metro area in December 1962. The committee under the chairman- ship of Highways Minister Charles MacNaughton and Transport Minis- ter Auld was asked to review the whole question of transportation in Metro-railways-expressways-subways and surface lines. The committee is now planning to visit Boston, New York and Philadelphia to examine commuter and rapid-transit operat- ions. Representatives of the province, Metro and the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railway com- panies are participating in the study. A general canvass for funds for the Richmond Hill Centennial Swim- ming Pool began Monday. The weeks of preparation by the canvass committee headed by Chairman Peter Sale and Co-Chairman Dr. Cameron Cowan is over and it is now up to our people to respond generously if we are to have public swimming on a year-round basis. An estimated $200,000 is needed to construct an indoor pool, junior Olympic size, complete with all the necessary facilities. Some financial assistance will be forthcoming from both the federal and provincial grants: however the main financial support must come from the citizens of Richmond Hill. There will be only one community-wide appeal. This is not an annual affair and our people will have only this one opportunity to support the pool drive. To reach its goal an average of $40 per family is needed. A pledge system is avail- The provincial government has announced the appointment of Trans- port Minister Irwin Haskett as vice- chairman of the executive committee of the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Transportation Study. He succeeds Travel and Publicity Minis- ter J. A. C. Auld former Transport Minister. - Earlier this yea} Mr. MacNaughton announced that the province had retained the Toronto firm of engi- Within the next few days Rich- mond Hill’s Yonge Street will don its Christmas dress as local hydro employees erect the familiar curli~ cues, which have had improvements added, and light the many cross-street strings of coloured lights. With Christmas windows and store and home decorations making their appearance throughout the town, shoppers and residents will be cons- tantly reminded of the flight of time â€" that there are only 28 shopping days left. We can make Richmond Hill a real centre of Christmas if merchants and house- holders all co-operate in decorating their premises in keeping with the season. THE LIBERAL. Richmond Hill, Ontario. Thursday. W . ‘ An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 #3} Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c s Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Editor and Publisher W. S. COOK, Managing Editor Rilway Commuter Service “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa" Only 28 Days left Get In The Swim W lih¢ra_1.__ m: in some water supplies in this country for as long as we have been here to consume it. Fluor- idation is endorsed by both the American and Canadian Medic- al and Dental Association and C.N.R. officials reported that 250 miles of rail lines were involved. The C.N.R. brings between 1.500 and 2,000 commuters into Toronto daily, but the company said it was running the commuter service at a loss. When the C.N.R. completes its hump yard in Vaughan Township in 1965, there will be very little traffic along certain routes and these might be available for commuter service. Discussions will involve officials of both the C.N.R. and the OPE. and the Toronto .Transit Commission regarding the nature, extent, and use of the existing railway lines and rights-ofâ€"way, and any contemplated plans for future changes in the present facilities. Mr. MacNaughton said the study will consider and report on the feasability of using all or any of the existing railway- rights-of-way to build railway com- muter services and rapid-transit facilities. The consultants will advise how much it will cost to change these lines considered suitable over to rapid-transit. Richmond Hill is badly in need of public swimming. Last summer close to 1,000 children sought enrollment in the Red Cross sponsored swim safety program held at Thornhill Pool. Unfortunately only 300 could be handled. Richmond Hill is now the largest town in the county and yet we lack a pool, while smaller municipalities thoughout the county have such facilities. Thornhill, New- market, Aurora, Markham Village and Stoul’fville all have public pools. neering consultants Deleuw, Gather and Co. to study the potential of railway lines which could be used to bring commuters into Metro from outlying areas. The limits of the area to be studied are roughly, Oshawa on the east, Barrie on the north and Hamilton on the west. The consultants were to have an inventory of existing railway lines and rights- of-way for the establishment of commuter and rapid transit services ready by September 1. The residents of York County will be watching with interest any deve- lopment which will bring a railway commuter service closer to reality. Our people have always responded well to any worth-while community effort. We feel the pool falls into this category and is worthy of our full support. So give generously when the canvasser calls. Remember it will be our only chance to ensure that Richmond Hill will get its badly needed public swimming facilities. able and a family may spread its donation over a twelve month period. Santa Claus will arrive in our town December 7 to be greeted with a parade which will be even bigger and better than the fine parade last year. Church- tower illumination will change to cheery colours in the Christmas theme. Local merchants shelves are rapid- ly being filled with choice merchan- dise for Christmas gifts at reasonable prices. A visit to the various town shops will convince you that you can do as well in your home community as anywhere else. Why not visit your friendly local merchant and see what he has to offer before travelling elsewhere. we are sure that the public is aware of all this. Council owes it to the people to give them a chance to vote on this issue and decide it one way or the other now. If they are not capable of making this decision then we sincerely hope that “Council 64" will display a lot of new faces. Signed by: W. J. Mason D.D.S. Nov. let. 1963 c(I L k“ ' 10c single copy J. Mason D.D.S. , . . RMacfarlane D_D_s_ MIS. H. Sanderson Is the lumen between the 3_ Bedford DDS. Red Cross and the _York Central Hospital Auxiliary. M. Wachna D.D.S. [ (Contmued On Page 14) Mr. Hugh Wight of Richmond Hill is in charge of the committee for individual emergency aid. He has three committees. One of the functions of these offices is to be responsible for civilian inquiry which means that if someone wants to locate relatives in other provinces, countries, or overseas, an attempt is made to establish contact through the Red Cross. If it is a question of immigration and reuniting families, Mr. Wight hands the case over to Ontario division and they take it from there. Welfare also comes under Mr. Wight’s jurisdiction, and although immediate aid to provide lodgings, food and new clothes is given if needed, it is only for a short duration. There are other emergencies such as the need for transportation to a hospital or the need of a wheel chair comes under what is called the meeting and assisting service. Mr. Wight said that Town Welfare Officer Norman Lewis usually refers cases to the Red Cross or to co-ordinated welfare. An appeal has come from Miss Patricia Stockdale, of the V.O.N. to supply required medication in certain cases. of the actual clinic many volunteers from other organizations as well as individual volunteers are needed. For example, the women’s institute look after refreshments for the donors. Members from the I. O. D. E. help to supply transportation and supervise the beds where the donors rest after donating their blood. Various women’s church organizations plus volunteers from the York Central Hospital Auxiliary plus volunteers from the high school Red Cross of Bayview Secondary School assist on telephone committees. Individual volun-‘ teers take over such jobs as looking after the sound truck, and perform many little services without which the clinic could not function success- fully. Buildings are supplied to house the clinic, and the highway authorities make it possible for the Red Cross branch to erect signs. The area in which the Richmond Hill and District Branch of the Canadian Red Cross operates is bounded by Steele‘s Avenue on the south, the town-line of Markham and Vaughan to the north; highway 400 to the west and east to the Don Mills Road. The branch is manned entirely by volunteers. The executive and all its chairmen plus their committees operate on a volunteer basis according to President William Hamilton. The members of the executive are: Honorary Presid nt Dr. Lillian Langstaf’f and Mrs. P. G. Hill. Past-President Mr. Ed. Butlin of Thornhill (Mr. Butlin was the first president of the branch). Vice-president Miss Ruth Johnson. treasurer is Mr. Joe McBratney and secretary is Mr. D. Glass. The committee chairmen are listed along with the function of their respective committees. Dr. John Wachna of Richmond Hill is chairman of the blood donor clinic committee, a very active com- mittee right from the beginning. During the time Mr. Douglas Lynn of Richmond Hill is chairman of the disaster services. Incidentally, there have been three fires in the district in the last three months and Mr. Lynn said that the Red Cross was on the job. Mr. Lynn handles most of the necessary action after he has been contacted by the police or fire departments in Richmond Hill, Markham or Vaug- han. Most of the disasters are fires and it is the objective of the chairman of disaster services to give immediate aid and provide the psychological boost to the shocked and stricken people during their time of tragedy by giving them shelter, food and new clothing. After twenty-four hours the case is usually referred ‘to the co-ordinated welfare council for further attention. Mr. Lynn says also that although the boundaries are defined, the Rich- mond Hill branch of the Red Cross is always ready to aid those outside the district without any questions. Campaign chairman is Mr. Stanley Tinker, the deputy-reeve of Richmond Hill. Volunteers are always needed to carry on any successful campaign for funds. His job is to spear head such an appeal to the public. Rambling Around Mr. Sam Cook is the director of public relations. As editor of “The Liberal” he sees that the news of the Red Cross receives the attention of the press and good public relations made available to the public. Mrs. Lois Hancey of Richmond Hill is chairman of the water safety committee. During the spring and the summer this committee is very active in helping to make everyone water safety conscious as far as swimming and boating are concerned. Last spring, Mrs. Hancey said that she needed volunteers to help her distribute application forms for the schools; volunteers for typing services; volunteers to help register 300 children; volunteers to supervise children on buses. Last year “The Liberal" donated the application forms. Mrs. Hancey said she just couldn’t have managed as well without her assistant Mrs. Marion Strugnell and six ladies who supervised the buses. Each week the buses, each carrying 50 children made two trips to the Thornhill pool. The kind volunteers were: Mrs. Ballis, Mrs. Deslaurier, Mrs. Dickie, Mrs. Shubally, Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Bragg. Mrs. Hancey mentioned that Mr. Paul Meldrum from the Ontario division spoke at Walter Scott School on the need for the pool. Having a pool in Richmond Hill will do much to promote the cause of water safety .in the area. on October 1 and will last for 13 weeks. The purpose of this course is to teach individuals basic nursing care; instruct in emergency nursing and to help equip the trainees with sufficient skill and know- ledge to help them in time of disaster. Mrs. McArthur said that the class could be enlarged if more adequate space were available, and it is hoped that this problem will be solved in the future. Home nursing is in charge of Mrs. D. McArthur of Maple, a registered nurse. At present she is conducting a class of 10 in home nursing at Our Lady Queen of the World Church. The course began by Elizabeth Kelson $50,161 meagzb . .. William J. Pugsley, standing to understand that branch of for re-election for reeve, regrew their business. he claimed. tted that sidewalks were not in’Streets and sidewalks needed all cases in as good condition as he would like. but as $500 more than the previous year had been required for the equipment of the high and public schools the council had‘ thought it well to economize: ilkt. $200 had been.expended in tanks and this might be looked upon as a permanent improve- ment. Next year more money would have to be spent on sidewalks. (Ed. note-- dfie of improving, as if letrgo much longer. taxes would be like a small rent. He thought enough interest had not been taken in the village. ’I * Ill 1 Dr. Wilson resigned as coun- cillor as he thought the spirit of the law was against a person holding the offices of counci- llor and school trustee at the same time. Gentlemen nominated for sc- hool trustees were not asked to these tanks was discovered on‘express their views on matters Church Street South earlier past or future. this year.) Flashback Mr. Pugsley spoke of the chances of the Metropolitan Railway neaching Richmond Hill, with the hope it would be run on the same system as in the City of Toronto. where horses were being replaced by electricity in a few months. Another company was reported to be seeking a franchise on Bathurst Street. John Brown, who was conte- sting the neeveship. thought the sitting reeve had been away from home too much in the previous year. Mr. Pugsley re- torted that he had been warden of the County of York during the year and of necessity out of town a great deal of the time, but during the coming year would be available at all times for the duties of reeve. Net revenue from the agric- ultural hall during the past winter had been $160. See 1’ It could have been worse. The MP's raised their salary to 18 thousand and then lowered the vpting age to 18 years. It’s better than a 21 obses- smn. Mr. William Harrison, ex- reeve, spoke in favour of more direct railway connection with Toronto and said the best hope was with the Metropolitan Railway. which would be a great asset to commuters. Mr. Brown charged that the Metropolitan Railway was mov- ing at too slow a pace. At their present rate they would not reach the village during the nineteenth century. he claimed. When asked if he thought it right to have attended county coun il to express his views on the railroad question. when he had not been asked to by other ratepayers, Mr. Brown said he wanted to go to the city. A quarter-million-dollar replica of Canada‘s famous fishing trawler, the Bluenose, has been built by 3 Halifax brewery. Wonder if they’ll call her the Rednose? * " * " What should be the case, of John Palmer thought that course. is that such draws and mistakes had been made in the lotteries as the service clubs village. especially in the way of sponsor should be legal. Re- road-making. tanks, ar’cently one of the Members of Council members did not seem (Continued On Page 14) In voting against the fluoridation plebiscite, Councillor Al White seemed to be influenced by Gordon Sinclair's rather rabid opinions on the subject. Mr. Sinclair is also intensely opposed to religion. So... Boxing promoter Frank Tunney says there is a possibility of bringing the Liston-Clay champion- ship fight to Toronto. He would stage it (at great expense) in the Gardens... and he COULD save a few bucks by putting it on after :1 Leaf game. He wouldn’t need any other preliminary bouts. An another ex-champ, Rocket Richard, wants to make an exception and keep his 544 goals in the book as a second-place record... Making an asterisk of himself. OTTAWA â€" Lotteries may soon be legalized in Canada to enable provinces to obtain additional badly needed revenue. . . a guy who put a few ten-counts together and got a million. OTTAWA â€" A whopping increase in Canada’s foreign aid program. â€" about $70,000,000 â€" has been approved by the Pearson Government... It looks like? Ireland heard about the first and applied for the second... Twenty million tickets??? With York Township planning to bring the chapel and crypt of Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor from England to a site overlooking Eglin- ton flats, the middle name of John Graves Simcoe seems to have proved pretty prophetic. The ex-heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey was touring Metro high schools last week advising students to stay in school for a higher education. Which must have seemed like strange advice from CHUM’s new morning mayor is a character called “Jungle Jay”. Seems like we saw him on the back of the Chum trailer at the Ex. Sort of a short, hairy fella. Walked on his knuckles. The Sheer Coincidence Corner The members of the Ontario Police Commission recently interviewed Joe Valachi in Washington and returned with the word that the Cosa Nostra canary had supplied themr with many leads on organized crime in Ontario. The Ontario Provincial Police are now cracking- down on all bingos and lotteries operated by service clubs. Nominations in 1891 were held the last Monday or Be- cember. Village Clerk M. Teefy who was the postmaster also was the presiding officer. Topics discussed have a familiar ring, even 72 years later. Items gleaned from files of "The Liberal”, the home paper of this district since 1878. In Years Gone By BY GEORGE MAYES Yesterday's news is not necessarily dead to understand that branch of their business. he claimed. Streets and sidewalks needed improving, as if letrgo much longer. taxes would be like a small rent. He thought enough interest had not been taken in the village. The service clubs of this country, and particularly those of York North. are to be com- mended on the value to the community of the projects they sponsor. Gentlemen nominated for se- hool trustees were not asked to express their views on matters past or future. However. they frequently meet difficulty in sponsoring draws or lotteries which are alleged to be contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada. This happened recently to the Lions’ Club in Richmond Hill. They were forced to call off a draw 48 hours before it was sched-I uled because the provincial gov-} ernment had notified them that a complaint had been made. and} that the police advised against holding the draw. Rather than break the law. the Lions club abided by the advice of the policeâ€"and suf- fered considerable loss. The club acted in keeping with its long record of community re- sponsibility and integrity. SHOULD BE LEGAL \ Lime Baptiste by May Mc- Neer and Lynd Ward, Hough- ton Mifflin. 1954. A charming picture book for the pro-school- er or beginning reader. A small Ire Richmond In anticipation of Young Can- ada's Book Week which is be- ing celebrated at the Richmond Hill Public Library from Nov-» ember 16 to the 23. the books reviewed are from the boys and girls department. These books, old and new are on the book week theme “Our French Her- itage". RICHMOND fllll. UHIHI'IO Phone TU. 4-1212 ENJOY SUNDAY MOVIES Richmond Hill. Ontario l in aggnfln'fik \ W704 rscumcoum “'"i"! MARSHALL THOMPSON ‘GABY ANDRE - FAUSTO TOZZI - A PARADE RELEASE‘ Please Note Thur. and Fri. Cont. from 7 pm. Last complete Show 8.40 pm. Sat. Cont. from 6 pm. Last complete Show 9 pm. Saturday Matinee THIS SUNDAY and EVERY SUNDAY Continuous From 6' p.m.. Sun. Cont. from Mon. Tues. Wed. ( MCQUEEN-WAGNER FIELD 13 TERRIFIED TEENAGERS ON THE Rum BY RICHMOND HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY BD Monday to Friday, 151 Show at 7 pm. Saturdays at 6 pm. Matinee Saturday and Holidays at 2 pm Have You Read These? REEOMMENDE‘D AS'ADULT ENTERTAINMENT Plus RECOMMENDED AS ADULT ENTERTAINMENT Thur. Fri. Sat. Nov. 21-22-23 AMlllflN‘JflYBHAYlflH-HUB MUflNnHflM MHHHNM} NOV. 23 - 2 RM. “13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS” Please Note 5.45. Last complete Show 9 pm. Sent. from 6.45 pm. Last completl Show 8.30 p.m. Plus MAHWWPKHIBH DHIEEHKMHY [JUNE DIPWMME mmm'm p.m. Petite Suzanne by Marguerite do Angeli. Doubleday. 1937. An old favourite by one of the best- known authors and illustrators for boys and girls. Community IContinued On Page 14) French-Canadian fa r m boy finds. during a walk in the woods, a strange collection of animals who return to the farm with him. They help with the farm work with surprising re- sults. Strong. clear drawings are suited to the subject and locale. A Wm H.“ m l OOLUWA HOTURES mm akin“