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2 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, More Money For County Roads The Vaughan-Hill Ambu- lance recelves a subsidy of $100 each per month from Richmond Hill and Vaughan Township to provide and main- tain an ambulance service. This Recent criticism by a local newscaster of my ambulance service was, I think. totally uncalled for. We would like to express the many. many thanks we Owe to our locnl firemen and police for the wonderful service they performed at the "Concrete" fire last Friday night. They worked hard and long under very bad conditions. and all of them proved to be a very fine group of cltizens. Dear Mr. Editor We extend our sympathy to neighbours and pray that God will lid them in their misfort- unc. Forecasts Help For Retarded Indications are that another step in theright direction will soon be in- troduced by the Ontario Government in respect to schools for retarded children. EdUCation Minister W. G. Davis forecast recently that action will soon be taken to allow future ope- rations of these schools to be financed by the government. Mr. Davis said that legislation will pro- bably be introduced at the next session of the Legislative Assembly to authorize establishment of a new financing plan to become effective January 1,1965. 0.7 l vuuu- Residents in the eastern subdivi- sions of Richmond Hill who must make frequent use of Bayview Ave., will 'certainly endorse the need for a. revitalized county road pro- gram. Bayview has been a county 'road since last May and yet it remains in a deplorable, muddy state. Mr. MacNaughton, who is the senior road official in the province remains in a deplorable, muddy state. Mr. MacNaughton, who is the senior road official in the province met with the warden. commissioners and members of the finance and spe- cial roads committee of the county. He told the oflicials that York is lagging behind in the acquisition and construction of additional roads. Mr. MacNaughton said some Ontario counties are spending as high as seven or eight mills on roads while York last year spent only approxi- matelythree mills. “mIllvaddifion to the regular provin- cial subsidy of 50% on all authorized The provincial government has finally decided to take a hand in speeding up the county road program in 1964. Meeting with county officials during the latter part of December, Highways Minister Charles Mac- Naughton urged York to expand its road building program in the coming year. Among his recommendations was that the county consider making Dufierin, Steeles and Bathurst coun- tyiroads. ._ . Juan “Juli”: Schools for retarded children are playing an important role in fitting the mentally retarded child to look after himself, and in many cases the He said this legislation will allow these schools to operate with funds other than those obtained through charity. There are 80 such schools in the province with a total enrol- ment of 2,730. Since 1953 govern- ment grants have been 50 per cent of_the sppnoved expenfiitpi‘es. At present moving vehicle law violators, receiving summonses from the Richmond Hill Police must ap- pear in court. Even if they wish to plead guilty. even if they live several hundred miles away in North Bay or Windsor. they must appear in court in Richmond Hill to answer to the charges. A much-needed policy change was recommended by 1963’s Richmond Hill Town Council at its last meet- ing for the year. The local police has been laboring under the impression that the town court did not approve of out-of-court settlements of such summonses. THANKS I’IREMEN AND POLICE Subscription Rate $3.50 per “Authorized Much Needed Change An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 033â€"4 'â€"‘\' I. A on’ Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Editor and Publisher W. S. COOK, Managing Editor Dear Mr. Editor as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa” W 1W m l would ask people to con- sider that the cost of a vehicle is $16,000. and the bare ne- cessary equipment amounts to another 51,000. Maintenance costs are higher than for other types of vehicle for several reasons. chief of which is that minor faults must be corrected so that the ambulance will be ready to go on a moment's notice. no matter what the weather or what the road conditions. The vehicles are also driven hard because of; the nature of their work, and means of livelihood with the ambulance service being an auxiliary business. In the case for which I was criticized, l was busy with my other busi- ness. When another driver could not be obtained. the call was transferred by my wife to the Kane Ambulance in Willow- dale, which responded promptâ€" 1y. The ambulance service is always my first consideration but sometimes I must of neces- sity be away from home. In calculating the time it takes an ambulance to reach market and serves a population of approximately 70.000 people. Ontario, Thursday, Jan. 9th, 1964 road construction, our county is in the favourable position that many of its roads are eligible for a further Metro subsidy of 25%. Under these happy arrangements county taxpay- ers only have to bear 25% of the total costs. Bayview is a good case in example. Of the total estimated paving cost of $224,000, 50% or $112,000 would be borne by the pro- vince, 25% or $56,000 by Metro and the remaining $56,000 by the county. At the fall session of county council the members suggested the 1964 council vote additional funds for roads in the new year, and inâ€" troduced a stage development for five roads. Bayview was included in these recommendations. With the majority of the 1963 county council returning in 1964 it is expected the recommendations of last fall will be implemented. The Toronto and York Roads Commission is dependent on county council for a major source of its funds. The road commission offered to pave Bayview last spring provid- ed thé county had voted the neces- sary funds. Besides the government grant, and municipal grants in some areas, funds are raised by an association, with the balance being met by a direct levy on the parents in the form of a monthly fee. These same parents contribute to the upkeep of the public schools through their property taxes, and must find this extra educational cost a burden. training received in these schools enables the student to obtain a job and make a. living as an adult. It is to be hoped county council will accept the recommendations of Mr. MacNaughton and undertake an accderated county road progran1in 1964. It should be the right of every child to receive “free” education to the limit of his ability â€" with no reservation. In Richmond Hill the public school trustees have recogniz~ ed this fact, and have been generous in their annual grant to the Thorn- haven School for Retarded Children. The memorial fund for the late President John F. Kennedy of the United States of America will also be a great help to those engaged in this important work, in enabling them to provide more and better facilities for the instruction of more children. Investigation by the police and fire committee of the town council elicited the information that the court would welcome such settlements as they would relieve the heavy docket of cases appearing before it. As a result council has recommend- ed that the police chief give conside- ration to revising the current policy. Such revision should improve the public image of Richmond Hill in the eyes of some of our visitors. It should effect a saving of time in lessening the number of cases to be heard in traffic court, and all in all be a better policy for everyone. I trust that this “other side" of the story will help people understand that I am doing my very best to ensure that amb- ulance service, a very essential one. will be available to all citizens of this area when and where it is needed. The operator of an ambulâ€" ance service must have another means of livelihood with the ambulance service being an auxiliary business. In the case for which I was criticized. I was busy with my other busi- ness. When another driver could not be obtained. the call was transferred by my wife in the the scene of an accident. it must also be taken into con- sideration when the ambulance was called. Many times several minutes elapse before that call is put in â€"â€" the police may not call an ambulance until they themselves are on the scene} and have assessed the need. i Vaughan-Hill Ambulance Dave Holt In the last column my journey took me as far as the Chicago Union station and I was waiting for my next train. In due time I was settled in a comfortable coach in the California Zephyr. The stairs at one end of the coach led up to the vista dome car. This was a promise of some wonderful scenic viewing, and I did spend much of my travel- ling time in the vista dome car. I was to spend some 32 hours on this train. In 32 hours the train gets to be like a little closed in community com- pletely cut off from outside influences. The charming stewardess who is called a zephyrette on this train keeps coming through to announce meals or to tell you about some of the interesting scenes that will soon be in View. The porters come in every once in awhile and sit down on the empty seats. One told me that he had just finished sending his son to medical school and that he had also educated a young sister as a teacher. Further observation reveals a fellow Canadian from St. Catharines on his way to California and the shy dark man sitting alone is a Chilean from South America. In the seat behind is a bluff cattle rancher from Nebraska returning from a business trip to Chicago. The women passengers are friendly and smile at you when they pass by your seat. One is a grandmother going to Denver, Colorado and another is a young woman with her baby returning to Salt Lake City after a visit with relatives in the east. Rambling Around Most of the evening I sat up in the dome car. The stars were out. They lit up the night like hosts of sparkling candles and as I looked upward at them through the glass and saw their wonderful shapes and formations they seemed very close to me. All the poetry I ever read about the stars came wel-ling up into my mind. I thought of the eighth psalm with emotion: “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained . . . What is man that thou art mindful of him . . .” Riding through the night with such a glorious company is to feel very close to God. Talk about flat country! Certainly the states of Iowa and Nebraska qualify. It was interesting to pass through miles and miles of level country and see as far as eye could see without any trouble. I made a friend.- She was a charming young woman from Kentucky. She worked as a librarian in the University of Lexington. She was spending her holidays getting acquainted with some of the beautiful scenery in these United States by way of the train. So this tall and rather elegant girl with lovely auburn hair and I were to spend the next day travelling together through the state of Colorado. The section of Colorado travelled by the Zephyr was as flat as could be and my companion and I sat in the dome car and watched the miles go by, getting glimpses of the shallow and muddy looking Colorado river wending its way across the plain. At last I can say that I have seen the Co- lorado river that has been immortalized in a song but I must say that the part I saw didn’t look the least bit “silvery”. (I understand that this river is quite deep in places.) Finally the magnificent foothills of the Ame- rican Rockies rose before us. As we passed through the foothills, the mountains loomed on either side at fantastic heights. I was impressed by the majesty and eternal strength of these mountains. The Zephyr went through one mountain tunnel after another. I counted fifteen though there may have been more. The zephyrette announced that we would soon be coming into Ruby Canyon. This begins in Colorado and extends into Utah, the “Beehive State”. What a magnificent spectacle! The whole canyon seemed to flame and change color under the influence of the setting sun. From the canyon we crossed over into the Utah desert and finally at 10 pm. mountain time or thereabouts, the Cali- fornia Zephyr eased into the Salt Lake City station. My new friend and I said goodbye and I took a taxi to Temple Square Hotel. After 32 hours on a train, a room with a bath is something like heaven. In the early morning I got a glimpse of the famed and beautiful Salt Lake City which lies beneath the rugged peaks of the Wasatch Mount- ains which rise more than a mile above the valley floor. It is in this city where the famous Temple Square is located. It contains the granite Temple, the huge domed tabernacle, assembly hall, bureau of information and church museum. In the taber- nacle is housed the great pipe organ and it is from here that the renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir is heard weekly over a national radio station. Grounds and building except the temple are open to the public and tours are provided without charge. There are free organ recitals daily. I still had a few hours journey to Cedar City in southern Utah where my daughter makes her home. It was early morning and the mountain air was very invigorating. The Wasatch Mountain range continued along both sides of this scenic highway. Whether I looked ahead, behind, left or right, the panorama of these beautiful'mountains was con- tinually in evidence. Even on a bus interesting in- cidents are bound to happen. There were three men on this bus. They were wearing Turkish dress. At one of the stops, the three got off, spread their prayer rug on the sidewalk, and all knelt together, turned their faces to the east and prostrated them- selves. Even in a strange country far from their home these Moslems didn‘t forget their God. What a lesson for us! When I got back on the bus I bumped my head on the low ceiling . . . so the next time the bus stopped. I was very careful not to bump my head again, and I mentioned it to the portly old gentle- man who sat behind me. “I was feeling for you,” said the elderly man gravely. Then he smiled. “But,” he added, “it's the bumps that teaches.” What a. thing to say! But the more I thought about his remark the more I realized that he had handed me a little bit of wisdom. In my experience anyway it has always been the bumps that teaches. At last the bus arrived at the Cedar City Station. I g __ _(Cont1nued On Page 12) “Never lose an opportunity of seeing any- thing that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting . . . a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every sky, in every fair flower and thank God for it as a cup of bless- ing." â€" Ralph Waldo Emerson. by Elizabeth Kelson ‘ASJeconcl jéouqéld . Flashback “The Liberal" of January 28, 1909, carried an advertisement of a meeting scheduled for February 1 to discuss the ques- tion of the Bethesda and Stouff- ville Company extending their lines. to Richmond Hill with a view to making connection with the lines of the proposed Wood- bridge and Vaughan Company. A news story in the same edition claims “Many farmers nowadays find it to their ad- vantage to have a telephone in their house, and there are at present over 200 phones on the Bethesda and Stouffville line, with headquarters at Stouffville. The price of a phone will be $12 a year, giving connection with about 1.000 phones ex- tending from Scott to Lake On- tario, and east into Whitby. “The present stockholders are well satisfied, as satisfact- ory dividends are paid on the money invested.” (The Bethesda line became a part of the Bell Telephone Sys- tem on November 17, 1963.) Another story in the same issue records that a few years before Marconi had astounded the world with his wireless te- legraph utilizing electric waves of the atmosphere. More re- cently. the article continued. Lee De Forest, inventor of the wireless telegraph, installed in the Eiffel Tower 3 wireless te- lephone apparatus. It reported his voice was heard quite clearly 500 miles away at Marseilles. Many ships of the United States Navy were already fitted with his appara- tus, enabling them to commu- nicate at distances up to 40 miles. The inventor claimed he had machines which would ex- tend that range to 70 miles. The citizens of Toronto are being instructed to leave their Christmas trees out for collection for a huge bonfire to be held on the waterfront... And the R.C.A.F. will be asked to have Pathfinder planes drop flares Over this mysterious area to help Torontonians find it. And, speaking‘of their “waterfront”, Toronto’s J new plying saucer, the Ongiara, went into service last week on the Island ferry route. Ongiara, it turns out, is an Indian word meaning: No Wash- â€" rooms â€"â€" which sort of explains why the crew had A to put in at Hamilton on that “rough trip” from Owen Sound. Even this was not the end of wireless wonders. A young Danish engineer. Dr. Hans Knudsen. resident of London, had been demonstrating how photographs, drawings and handwriting could be transmitâ€" ted through space without the aid of wires. The article fore- cast that Dr. Knudsen’s trans- mitters and receivers would make it possible by means of a special typewriter for a simul- taneous copy to be secured in a distant city as the original was being typed. With additio- nal changes of mechanism. it was also forecast that the copy could be set in type ready for printing in that far city. The president of the Hill's Aristocrat Car Club says the only trouble in their New Year’s Eve driving-for-drinkers service came from party-goers who tried to trick the aristocrats into driving them from party to party. . . Until they had drunk enough to think they could drive themselves? Senor Torres Quevedo. a Spanish engineer, was amazing the world with demonstrations of wireless control of move- ments of a ship. All these forecasts have been fulfilled in the intervening 55 years. and we are quite familiar with these facets of the wireless A Star survey on the New Year‘s resolutions of well-known personages included the short para- graph: “In Ottawa few politicians would admit to New Year’s resolutions.” Surely the Star should know by now that few politicians â€"- at any time â€"â€" will admit to anything. That IS their resolution. Big fuss in Philadelphia over the mummers marching in blackface. The “comic” whites defend the practice as traditional... And the NAACP objectors could probably put a peaceful end to the tradition by merely insisting that the blackface boys be made to march in the traditional place â€"â€" at the rear. “Canadians are the gabbiest people in the world” is the interpretation of the American Te- lephone and Telegraph Co., of their latest survey showing Canadian phones have the world’s highest average number of calls... On the other hand, their survey may only indicate that Canada has the most dancing schools and magazine agents. 1964 ding say: Medical science has now discovered that eating cheese with some of the modern tranquillizers could be fatal. Fortunately for nervous cheese-lovers, our breweries are still producing an old-fashioned tranquillizer that goes pretty good with it. Miss Present-day Canadians make more use of the telephone than any other people in the world, but in January 1909 the telephone was just becoming established as a means of com- munication. Items gleaned from files of "The Liberal”, the home paper of this district since 1878. BY GEORGE MAYES . Yesterday's news is not necessarily dead In Year: cone By .. and a big fuss in France as judges of the Francc contest announced that girls in the contest will be checked to discover any pad- of their vital statistics... Or, as the French they will Cherchez la Femme. 001g telephone under the names of radio, teletype 1nd remote control. A further development based on these principles is the television found in alrhost every Canadian home. STARTING SUNDAY JANUARY 12 FOR ONE WEEK MATINEE AT 1.30 SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 EVENINGS AT 5.45 AND 8.45 P.M. Sunday January 12 - 5.45 and 8.45 pm. Mond. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. One Show only at 8 pm. Show Times For “Mutiny On The Bounty” Please Note n; Richmond RICHMOND HILL, ONT. Phone ’l‘U. 4-1212 WARNER BROSHAPPILY BRINGS BROADWAY'S ‘CHOICE’ JCOMEDY TO THESCREEN! This Sunday and every Sunday I SATURDAY iandisUNDAY Continuous from 6 [mm I "BE TICKET! SEE BPECML PEPSODENT TOOTH PASTE CARTON FOR DEE WWHL-IO’RNmfiTs-BACRUS my Jill Wkly-magnum liVlI‘waRANK P. ROSENBERG-mu. DON WEB Hi Diddle Diddle! MONDAY T0 FRIDAY 151 Show at 7 pm.” MATINEE SA'I‘URDAYS & Holidays at 2 p.m. The above times effective unless otherwise advertised Thur. Fri. Sat. January 9 - 10 - 11 While nations are racing. And hoping that soon They’ll be in first place On a trip to the moon: We look back to the days Of our nursery rhymes. And recall an old stunt In the long ago times. When the moon was jumped over: (Don’t ask why or how!) An this act was performed By just an old cow! Enjoy Sunday Movies Robert D. Little WCHNICULOR" PANAVIS‘UN. Presenm mWARNER BROS.