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VOL. 89, NO. 26. Because of Richmond Hill Reeve Donald Plaxton’s con-i cern about the inability of the town's sewage facilities to take care of the proposed 200-bed addition to York Central Hos- pital, the report of the finance committee was “accepted" but not adopted or approved in principle at the December 20 meeting of York County Coun- cil. Additions to York Central and to York County Hespital at Newmarket will cost $14 million but federal and provincial1 grants will provide $4,418,000 while a further $4.940,000 will be provided by a 3% provincial loan to be paid out of hospital revenues. This leaves a balance of $4.650.000 to be raised by York County taxpayers. The finance committee proposed that the amount be raised on a 20 year de- benture at 61/251,111 the 1966 equalized assessment in the county of $205 mil- lion dollars. this would mcan slightly more than two mills for 13 years and slightly less than two mills Interest charges would he wants to build hospitals, let’s $3,699.67!) over the 20-year have a little leadership from period bringing the total them on providing the services". cost to the county to S8,â€" he said and noted that al- 349.670. though requested last February While in no way quarrelling a report on a sewage and water with the need for the hospital survey by OWRC had not yet additions, Reeve Plaxton reiter- been received. “If it is a case ated the arguments he had ad- of using the hospital as a lever. Warn Hill Cannot Finance Facilities Far‘Prbposed "York Central Addition for t years. A Christmas feast, complete with all the season’s goodies, Santa Claus, a magician, and happy children were the order of the day at Summitview Gardens Restaurant December 19 when the Rotarians of Richmond Hill entertained their children. A few of the youngsters, happily holding the gifts which had been presented to them by Santa, are seen in the above picture grouped around “Mr. Presto” the magician, who amazed and entranced them with his feats of legerdemain. It was the final event of an evening they will not soon forget the remaining seven By MARGARET McLEAN At close to 11 pm at a crowded meeting of district farmers at Vanâ€" dorf Community Hall December 15. York County Assessment Commis- sioner C. D. Wright threw someâ€" thing of a bombshell when he an- nounced that county assessmem did not have lo be on market value if county council wished it otherwise. Farmers Told Assessment On Market Value Throughout the long evening. Mr. Wright had continually de- fended the new system which he is preparing to introduce and which would have all properties in the county, residential as well as farm, commercial and industrial assessed at market or “probable sale" value. While the assessment figures would increase. mill rates would be correspondingly lowered. Mr. Wright said and any increase or decrease in actual taxes would only take place where a property has previously been incorrectly asses- sed in relation to others. Mi: Wright pointed out however that Public Li"I"‘-1"S’, 24 Uri 'ht stu Rich". Mid J19}: ' Where Did That Came From? vanced at last month‘s meetingfl will use it or anything else: of county council, insisting that‘to see that the people get the Richmond Hill was not in astandard of services they are position to build the extra sewâ€"Entitled to and are being taxed age facilities to handle the Yorkifor and are paying for", he said. Central addition. The finance‘ Reeve Plaxton was strongly committee didn’t have an an-lsupported by Vaughan Town- swe. to this problem and thelship Reeve A. H. Rutherford. hospital committee didn’t have “I’m interested to hear the hos- an answer to it, he said. “Theipital addition won’t be built for county hopes that in some mysâ€"two years", he said. “because it terious way, when the timei comes the town of Richmond? Hill will supply the services. ° This will not happen", he con-‘ cluded. ‘ I This brought the accusa- tion from Stouffville Reeve ‘ Kenneth Laushway that Mr. ‘ Plaxton was using the hos- pital addition as a lever to obtain assistance for Rich- 5 mond Hill which will have 1 to increase its sewage facil- I ities in any event. “Can’t ‘ he find something more in- nocuous to use than the hospital?” he enquired. Mr. Plaxton replied that he! was representing one munici: pality and wasn't going to see the hospital, which serves a much \xide1 a1ea load up SB“- age facilities paid fo1 b\ Rich- mond Hill "If the pioiince “ants to build hospitals. let’s have a little leade1ship £10111 them 011 p10\iding the sen ices' . he said and noted that al- though requested last February “one sale does not make a mar- ket". and that individual sales of farm land for inflated prices (possibly as subdivision landl would not be considered. nor would father-son sales for very low prices. He conceded however. , that there were no true sales of farm lands taking place in York County. that is sales of farm land for farm- ing purposes, that the prices being asked (and receivedl for farm land made the capital cost too high for economic farming. Mr. Wright’s affirmative reply be on these values?" elici‘ spouse, “The: to get it stop to the quegtion “Is assesgment to applause. Mr. W rkn these fantastically high .’" elicited the explosive reâ€" , “Then by God we‘ve got it stopped", which remark reeted with whole-hearted un Hydro Lighting Contest: Has Six Lucky Winners] direct defe Hydro Chairman Sam Cook announced this week the names of winners in Richmond Hill Hydro’s second Christ- mas Home Lighting Contest. First prize of a portable electric heater went to C. R. Foster of 109 Cartier Cres. Two next-door neighbors tied for second place. 1-1. Goebel of 212 and H. Wunderlich of 214 South Taylor Mills Drive and each received an electric blender. Third prize, an electric blanket, was awarded to F. Grabarchuk, 249 Lucas St. Honorable mention went to J. ‘I. Maltby, 238 Sugar Maple Lane and to H. Vosburgh, 83 Starlight Cres. First prize for the most unique display went to S. Pinter. 126 Libby Blvd. who Won an electric carving knife. Second prize in this category, an electric shoe shine kit. went to P. O‘Sullivan of 122 Cartier Cres. while honorable mention went to H. Willis. ’73 Rockport Cres. Judges this year were Jack Corbett. Alsace Rd., chairâ€" man of Richmond Hill Centennial Committee: Mrs. W. H. Purvis, 65 Bridgeport St. representing the YWCA and Harry Sayers. Starlight Cres., chairman of the planning board. lnse was that dd employee, tion of county decreed that Municipal Af- it or anything else M RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ’29, 1966 fairs’ assessment manual was to be the basis of the new county asâ€" sessment. Merlin Baker. a prominent Whit- church farmer had with him a copy of the manual and read from it a section indicating that top grade farm land was to be assessed at $125 per acre. Mr. Wright advised that that section of the manual had been amended, and further. that not six pages of that manual remained, the rest of it having been amended since 1964. 72 At this point. Whitchurch Reeve Ross Farquharson rose to point out that it was on the basis of the 1964 manual that county council had endorsed county assessment but that it had made no mention of assessment on market value. Mr. Wright suggested therefore that all county council needed to do was repeal one section of the bylaw appointing a county assess- ment commissioner which states that "the department manual shall be used”. may be two years before we the OWRC report.” Mr. Rutherford also felt that the $8 million debt was quite an obligation for the county to undertake, particularly since the York Central addition was ‘just the second phase of a four- {phase project. “It is very im- Iportant that we have sewage (Continued on Page 3) In Essentials Unity; (Photo by Stuart’s Studio) Farms Now Get Preferred Treatrnelt in Non-Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity” Deputy-reeve Floyd Perkins, chairman of the works commit- getitee, stated the new contract will {cost $3.65 per capita. fl\l\\\l\\\\1\\\\ll\l\l\l\llll\\l\\\\\\ll\l\\\l\“M11“l“\\\\\l\\\l\\l\l\l“lulu“ \\\\u\\\\\\\\\\\\mmuuumumu\m\m\\\\\muu“mm“uumumuuu Okay York Sanitation Contract To Start Weekly Refuse Pickups Richmond Hill residents “ill be getting once a week lefuse as well as ga1bage pickups come January 1,1967. That was the story last week as council approved of negotia- tions by its works committee for a revised five year contract with York Sanitation Company of Newmarket. w u; no -.uu.....v.,-v - .. uuua uy “a a revised five year contract with York Sanitation Company of Newmarket. In previous years York Sani- tation handled the weekly garbâ€" age pickup with the municipal- ity‘s works department crews maintaining monthly refuse col- lections for everything beyond" the usual garbage. 1 “Any branches.” she said, “should be tied together in bundles in order that they may be lifted easily.” nnmmummu\mumumuuuuu1m\\num\u\\u\\um\u\\\\\\mum Taxpayers Invited To Inaugurals . n - ,,,,,, L ..... l l Let’s get Richmond Hill‘s Centennial celebrations off to the right start by attend- ing the Mayor’s Levee Janu- ary 2 between 2 and 3 pm. There will be lots of room for everybody in the spaci- ous auditorium of Richmond Hill High School located on Wright Street. The old contract â€" which still had a year to go â€"â€" was renego- tiated as it was decided to comâ€" bine the garbage and refuse ‘pickups. The rate for garbage pickup has been $2 20 pel capita: he said, and was due to Lise in ‘any case because of increased costs. We ve had the same rate for the past four years.” Calculating the present popu- lation of Richmond Hill at ap- proximately 19,500 the total cost will amount to $71,175. The act- ual garbage pickup has increas- ed to $2.60 with the refuse pick- ing up the other $1.05 per cap- ita. Entertainment will be provided by the York Chorâ€" aliers. a singing group with members from all over York County, which will be ap- pearing at Expo ‘67 in July. This invitation is a singular honor and one which is well merited. At 3:15 the Centennial flag will be raised on the flag pole in front of the municipal building, to fly there throughout the Cen- tennial year. “I suggest that the five of us here who will be on county council next year see that this bylaw is amended and that we continue to use the blue book sold to us in ’64." said Reeve Farquharson. “We should bring to the attention of county council that there have been changes in the assessors‘ manual.” He added that the cost of the' $3.65 rate would be more than made up by the releasing of works department employees to ‘do other vital municipal work. The municipality will also save on the time it took to carry the refuse to dumps in Vaughan Township. This suggestion was fully en- dorsed by the audience and the considerable tension which had built up earlier in the meeting was dissipated. “The York Sanitation firm,” he said, “originally asked for $3.83 to handle both the garbage and refuse pickup but we man- aged to get it down to $3.65. Mayor Thomas Broadhurst: added his favorable comments noting a great deal of money‘ and time would be saved by; freeing town employees for {other \xork. However, Brian Bailey, reeve- elect of Vaughan Township who was in the audience, questioned whether it would be this simple and asked Mr. Wright if it was not mandatory to use the amended manual for county assessment. Mr. Wright replied that the de partment didnt actually make i mandatory but that they pail additional grants to those “110 di use it such as $12 000 towards L11 salan of the assessment commis sioner. half the cost of any equix Mayor’s Levee January 2 fully en The controversial report rec- ommends the setting up of. three ‘boards of education in York County to replace the present 15 elementary and six high school boards. At the November 1sittings of county council a mo- tion was passed by a small marâ€" gin to have a bylaw p1 epa1 ed for1 the December sittings to pe1mit full discussion of the proposals which we1e endotsed by the county’s education committee. At the beginning of the disâ€" cussion last Tuesday. howeve1. a resolution was put forward l itation Contract 1 Refuse Pickups Councillor Lois Hancey asked that residents be re- minded the town has a by- law requiring garbage to be put in metal containers or enclosed in green plastic bags. “Any branches.” she said, “should be tied together in bundles in order that they may be lifted easily.” Taxpayers Invited d To I naugurais 511 Four events of importance H. _.. m-.....-l.:u pant- 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111\11111111111111111111111111 b1 Commissionei Gait‘ield‘bomds \V1ight the ieeve of East (31111- limbiny 11h1ch stated that as insufficient oppottunity had R 1, been gi1en to the municipali- P1611150 ties. the clementan and high- lution cil ha units cope Val came over repre Distr; its I C01 to a ‘ Allar. boart term ence, she 1 no 0 point him cil ‘whet disc1 whet it had defei discussion on the matâ€". ter and that instead it should‘ be refer1ed to the 1967 council. 1Q Warden Joseph Dales theni ue up until this time the county val 1lias played no active role in ‘setting education policy It was felt that the new setâ€"up still ,similar to that of present muniâ€"1 cipal councils but with policy making shifted to the three‘ new boards. in the report on fiscal issues, particularly the po- sition of the province on co-operative financing of there was need £01 a seiious examination of local develop- ment policies and that if local governments a1e relieved of dirâ€" the overall fiscal position of 1the county could dete1'io1';ate that if the county is to be re- sponsible £01 school costs school [wants to discuss the changes county council should 1ead a lengthy submission on the mafia which pointed out that ‘1'egulates the county to the'Fol status of a collection agency; It was felt that there was insufficient information the venture. It was further emphasized that ect responsibility for relating housing to school requi1ements,. must play a significant role also in development. yo which were endorsed by the county’s education committee. At the beginning of the dis- cussion last Tuesday, however. Is Regional School Board Decision Referred To '67 County Council The York County Consultative Committee’s re- port gained a reprieve at the December 20 sittings of York County Council instead of being shot down in flames as some had predicted. Councillor Lois Hancey asked that residents be re- minded the town has a by- law requiring garbage to be put in metal containers or enclosed in green plastic bags. \\umuuuunuumuu\\\\\mm“mmuuumuuuuuuumuuuuuun Four events of importance to Vaughan Township resi- dents will take place during the first No weeks in Jan- nary. January 4 a recount of the votes cast for reeve in the December 10 election will be conducted at the munici- pal offices in Maple by Judge W. D. Lyons. Monday, January 9 will be the inaugural meeting when members of council and also of the township planning board will take their oaths of office. Wednesday evening, Janu- nary 11, newly-elected mem- bers of Vaughan Township Area School Board will be sworn into office at the ad- ministrative offices of the board, 136 Keele Street South. Maple. This is the small building in front of George Bailey Public School, which was the ori- ginal school on the site. Thursday, January 12 the 1967 inaugural meeting of York Central District High School Board will be held at the board’s offices, 59 Yonge Street North. Rich- mond Hill at 8 pm. Newly appointed or re- -appointed members will be sworn into office and a chairman will be elected for the year. Members of the public will be welcome at these three inaugural meetings. 2t Instruction 0f County Council ment used and up to $2,500 for equipment rented. He had pointed out earlier that when questions were put to the Ontario Government it wouldn‘t take a stand. "It's a popularity contest doml there.” he said. “The men at Queen’s Park won't come out with a firm statement unless it is to their advantage. They won’t issue a mandate until 50% of the province is on the new system." Instead, he said. they use the incentives of extra grants and this year to get municipalities to use a new type of assessment roll have offered to pay a grant amounting to 20¢ per entry on such an ap- proved roll. They will also pay 25c for each tax bill issued on a new form If the bylaw is amended as sugâ€" gested. Mr. Wright stated that this would put assessment under Sec- tion 35 of the assessment act, under which sale price is disreâ€" garded when making an assess- ment. HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 Woodbridge Reeve Norn Gar-i riock. chairman of the educaâ€"v tion committee, concurred with? the resolution. The changes‘ would require, he said, not one, bylaw but 19 and although thesei had been prepared, there was insufficient time to discuss them. He stressed however.‘ that there had been a consider-‘ able amount of work done in‘ connection with the report and 'urged that council continue to deal with the subject and keep it active. (Mr. Garriock did not stand for re-election in Wood- Mr. Wright’s resolution was‘ seconded by Commissioner Al- ma Walker and Warden Dales stated that the remarks con- tained in the submission he had read represented the feeling of the executive committee of county council. He suggested that rather than enter into an involved debate, the resolu- tion be voted on at once. an...» --- bridge and_ consequently will rived. ' not be a member of county According to Vaughan Town-l council next year). ship Police. 3 youth broke into Mr. Garriock also point- Twin Saddle Riding Academy, ed out that before the Vaughan Township, December hoards of education could 21, and stole three firearms. be set up, each individual He then went to the Richvale municipality would have to garage and tried to hold up the concur and pass its own by- proprietor. Emile Dion. How- law on the matter and that ever. John Gilroy, who was as: further discussion was nec- sisting Mr. Dion jumped on the‘ ; essary. lyouth and wrestled him to the Vaughan Township Reeve ground. A. H. Rutherford expressed Arrested and charged with himself as happy that local the attempted breakâ€"in was Wilâ€" :school boards will have an opâ€" liam Wayne Buchanan, 19, no Eportunity to submit their feel-‘fiXed address. Earlier in the meeting he had stated, “I doubt if we can find a farm sale in York County which fits in Section 35”. He also stated that if sale value is disregarded “This would result in a much lower \alue for farm property. This places bonafide farms in a preferred position. No other property is this preferred, it is designed particularly for the farmer.” Mr. Wright insisted too that there were now many fictitious values in the county. Present assessment attempts to place the 1940 value on a property, some- thing which individual ratepayers can’t figure out. Under the pro- posed new system no one in the county would be hurt. he said, but at the present time some classes of property are subsidizing others. He received determined opposi- tion during the evening from King Township Reeve Gordon Cook. on durmg the ( ownship Reev armers are all _ .- [.15 Du 211,23}? boards ings on the report. The Vaughan education. although the Richâ€" board had been disappointed mond Hill Public School Board that it had received no reply‘had supported the plan. from the consultative commit- "We feel it will entail sig- tee on their submission to it. nificantly greater expense, re- He suggested that all school garriless of the upgrading of ed- boards throughout the county ucation“. Mr. Plaxton stated. \should have an audience with,“Unless there is convincing ytlie committee. [evidence on costs. in dollars Richmond Hill Reeve Donald Plaxton also endorsed the reso- lution but warned that his coun- cil had no faith that the larger units of administration could cope with the rising costs of Question Method Of Selection Vaughan Reappoints A. C. Peck For 3 Years To High School Bd. Vaughan Township Council‘ came under close questioning over its method of appointing representatives to York Central District High School Board at its December 19 meeting. Council gave three readings“ to a bylaw reappointing Trustee Allan Peck of Richvale to the board for a further three year term, A member of the audi- ence, Mrs. J. G. Corse, while she made it clear that she had no objection to Mr. Peck’s ap- pointment and did not know {him in fact, enquired how coun- icil arrived at its decision, whether the matter had been ‘discussed in committee and {whether or not any other person .had been considered. ' “It is very important that you get the best possible person," said Mrs. Corse. “They (the high_ school board) spend most of our . money. In our dealings with l l the board they haven’t help- :1 ed us at all and we would El like to know you are getting [1 the best people.” ’} Mrs. Corse was assured that '.council had discussed the ap- ‘Ipointment thoroughly and Coun- '§cillos Dalton McArthur advised nthat he had spent four hours on i I Lake Wilcox Man Thwarts H old u p -\III' - Thwart A Lake Wilcox man averted: a holdup at Frenchie‘s Garage. Richvale. last week when hei jumped on the would-be bandit‘ and held him until police ar- rived. According to Vaughan Town- ship Police. a youth broke into Twin Saddle Riding Academy, Vaughan Township, December 21, and stole three firearms. He then went to the Richvale garage and tried to hold up the proprietor, Emile Dion. HO\V-‘ fever. John Gilroy. who was as: sHoIdup I Another ratepayer, Charles Madden asked what qualifica- tions an appointee had to have, ‘who could apply and if there was a salary attached to the job. He was advised, that high school board members are now paid an honorarium. Reeve A. H. Ruth- erford and council tried to get well qualified people and tried to see that its three representa- tives are chosen, one from each section of the township. Mr. Rutherford also advised that council’s representatives on the‘board report to council per- iodically. An objection was rais- ed however that such represen- tatives do not report to the rate- snstmg Mr. D1011 Jumped on the“payers unless council provides south and wrestled him to the a time for them to do so. Gordon 0 illing to be .18 X ongie N. KENZIE PHARMACY MOTORIZED DELIVERY ‘ ‘ " 884-4463 884-1017 PRESCRIPTIONS sessed equally, he said, but if as- sessment was made on market value they would have to sell their farms. Markham Township Reeve Stew- art Rumble was also convinced that under the market value ass- essment farmers. particularly in Markham Township where land prices have been much inflated, would hear a greater tax load. Chairman of the meeting was George Richardson, former New of Whitchurch Township. At the head table with him were Mr. Far- quharson, Whitchurch Deputy- reeve Stuart Burnett, Mr. Rumble, Mr. Cook, Mr. Wright, Frank Brummel of the Federation of Agriculture and Reeveâ€"elect of Aurora Jim Murray. Mr. Bailey was invited to join the head table guests but declined, advising that he was only present as a guest. Well over 100 farmers from Whitchurch. King and Mark- ham Township attended the meetâ€" n-‘ The resolution to pass the er problem on to next year‘s coun 1d cil was then carried unanimous of 1y. with no further discussion. "We feel it will entail sig- nificantly greater expense, re- gardless of the upgrading of ed- ucation“. Mr. Plaxton stated. “Unless there is convincing evidence on costs. in dollars and cents. this report has very little chance of passing". TRUSTEE ALLAN PECK Reappointed 3 Year Term the telephone discussing the matter. “How would anyone know when the appointment is coming up?” Mrs. Corse enquired further. "Do you advertise the position?" Councillor McArthur advised that the “position” was not ad- vertised and that the only way anyone would know about such appointments would be if they followed the matter routinely. Richmond Hill V Vaughan Township’s rep- resentatives on the high school board for the past (Continued on Page 10) PER COPY 10c