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VOL. 89, NO. 39. Residents of the surrounding‘ area were alarmed at mid-] morning March 21 with the‘ sound of a loud explosion and| more upset at an even bigger-l bang shortly after 1 pm. Winn dows were broken and plaster} cracked in several homes. Source of the eruptions was the township dump on the Teston Sideroad where ‘ RCMP technicians set off ? a quantity of blasting wire which. after an investiga- 1 tion lasting several weeks. ‘ had been traced to the dump. Injured during the process was Jack Fan-bert. 61. of Pine Grove who superintends the op- eration of the dump. Following the first explosion, Mr. Fawbert was assisting the RCMP and army demolition experts to conâ€" The unravellingvof a mystery involving Metro Police, the RCMP and the Canadian Army ended at the Maple Dump last week â€"â€" with a great big bang! RCMP & Army Discover Explosives Buried For 3 Weeks At Maple Dump By MARGARET MCLEAN The above young people, all members of the Richmond Hill Symphony Orchestra, ha\e achieved considerable honor lately. Four of them, Carol Gibson (cello). Jim Spragg (trumpet), Martin Warsh (violin) and Harold Wevers (Bassoon) have been accepted into membership of the Canadian National Youth Orchestra. which will do intensive rehearsing during the sunnner prior to a trip across Canada. Fourteen-year-old Jim Spragg is the youngest player ever to be accepted Thése very talented young people are pictured above (left to right): Martin Warsh, Doug Sparkes, Harold Wevers, Carol Gibson and Jim S'pragg. r Canadian National Youth Orchestra. which will do intensive rehearsing during the summer prior to a trip across Canada. Fourteen-year-old Jim Spragg is the youngest player ever to be accepted by the youth orchestra. Competition for membership in this musical group is very keen and it is evident that the experience gained in the local symphony orchestra has helped these four young people to pass the auditions. The fifth young orchestra member, Douglas Sparkes (trombone) received a $100 scholarship in [the 1967 Kiwanis Festival. Needleberry Needles Teachers “l have spent half a centur)~ making mistakes and have enjoyed it thoroughly. I am making glaring mistakes right now and hope to continue until the day I die. It is the only way you learn." was one of the opening statements of Globe & Mail columnist Richard J. Need- ham addressing some 200 students at Thornhill Secondary Séhool March 21. While he admitted that it \\'as unwise for a young girl to get preg- nant or for a boy to smash himself up in a car or get hooked on LSD. heroin or other drug. Mr. Need- ham insisted that “Outside of that life is a matter of trial and error." Young people are held down too much both in high schools and at home. he said and deserve more freedom. responsibility. privacy and respect. “Many pal‘ents,ha\e the attitude that if young people get more than 100 steps away they turn into sex fiends. alcohol- ics or drug addicts." he said. High schools, he felt. place far too much emphasis on rules. “You need only basic rules. You can't go around bashing people or steal- ing, but you don‘t need any more rules than at Eaton's or Simpson's or the Royal York. Many are totally unnecessary and are insulting to you in the implication that you are an irresponsible, criminal eloâ€" 11 By MARGARET “CLEAN Public Li“r"‘-1”Y’ 24 WP}. "ht 5t ' 9 Rich". md _H_11; -- 'IE Honor For Talented Musicians tain the remaining material in a cardboad box before dispos- ing of it. They were working at the bottom of the dump when a portion of the (lump wall, apparently loosened by the first blast, descended and bur- ied Mr. Fawbert. “I don’t know what happen- ed,” Mr. Fawbel‘t told f‘The Liberal”. “‘1 justremembei- a blow on my back and I went out like a light." He was quickly uncovered however and taken to York Central Hospital with five broken ribs and a broken bone in his shoulder. Monday of this week he was able to be up and around a little but still very stiff and sore. Mr. Fawbert was first alerted to the fact that 1 there was some explosive in the dump by a call March 2 from Metro Police who told him there had been some dynamite dumped there. He denied any knowledge of it. How- High schools also place too much emphasis on exams. said Mr. Needham and offered himself as an example of a person who "never passed an exam in my life" and yet earns up to $20,000 a year. “Exams are for the birds,” he said. Mr. Needham also blamed the high schools for putting too much emphasis on jobs. "The whole pur- pose of school is to get you some job in a glue factory so you can retire when you are 40 years old. What do you want a job for?" he enquired, and stated that at the schools he went to in England and Ireland jobs were never mentioned. The purpose of schools he said was to give an education. to pre- dee in the world. He also complained that students were much too “boxed in and coopâ€" ed up" in high schools and instead should do much more travelling on school time and money. High schools should be open with people coming in with their ideas and students constantly flowing out to the outside world. Furthermore. he continued, at- tendance records should be scrap- ped completely. A student should realize that if he doesn't show up it is his problem alone. )un and )o'se of schools ve an education 151 people for tlr nd mast interes ever. when approached by the RCMP and army spec- ' ialists he readily recalled burying, almost three weeks I previously, some two or 3 three hundred pounds of I what he had taken to be i plastic clothes line wire. I He remembered it b‘ecause‘ when burying the wire, it had‘ become entangled around the. treads of his bulldozer and he had spent some little time re-i moving it, banging it repeatedly ‘with a shovel while doing so. ;He was consequently more than a little amazed to learn of its explosive properties which the army expert demonstrated by placing a small piece on a rock and throwing, from 30 feet away, another rock at it. “It went off with a bang.” ‘l'ecalled Mr. Fawbert from his hospital bed, “but he said not one person in 2,000 would know lwhat it was.” Certainly the Metro salvage firm who dumped the material had no knowledge of its prop- erties. although they had it listed as blasting wire. An of- ficial of the company advises that it was received at their warehouse January 13. salvage from a load of assorted freight from a truck involved in an ac- cident and subsequent fire near Pembroke, Ontario January 7. The firm reconditions salv- aged material and sells it for insurance adjusters but finding no market for the material, hatl taken it to the dump. As it had been called blasting “wire” they had thought of it as a for the fullest. interesting life m; young people are held down so much. Mr. Needham expounded. Our society is run by older people, he said, who don't want anyone rocking the boat. “It must get ir- ritating to see those who don’t have to make an effort to look young. Many who are 40, 50, 60 feel their life has been cruddy, with not much happiness or joy and they fear that youth will suc- ceed where they failed." Similarly, he said. many feel that they have not done very well in the romance department and think kids will get more out of life than they have. “This is another reason for resentment.“ .\lr. Needliam advocated that liquor should be treated like Pepsi Cola and the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 or even should be lowered to 18 or even 16. He also recommended that the voting age be lowered to 18. "The political parties have no interest in the young. they don’t give a damn about you. they regard you as a dangerous and quasi-criminal bunch." he said and suggested that if the voting age were lowered, “the parties would be compelled to take an interest in you â€" and you an interest in them." At the end of Mr. Needham’s address. Thornhill‘s Master Eng- lish Teacher R. P. MacDonald sug- gested 'that "if any of you victims RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIG; THURSDAY, MARCH 30. 1967 plastic comrcd \\ ire used as the conductor of an electrical charge to a detonator and had exercised no particular care in its handling. Apparently alerted by the shipper of the wire. the federal Department pf Mines and Reâ€" sources c mmissioned the RCMP to tr%€e its.whe1:eabov.lts._ When foun at'the dump. it was buried? under about four feet of waste and fill and had to be uncovered with a bull- dozelx Army demolition ex- perts felt it wiser to explode it on the site rather than more it elsewhere. The wire was‘ originally ‘ on rolls and under the ex- terior plastic surface con- sisted of a layer of cordite surrounding a core of some form of nytroglycerine. i R. K. Baker of the Teston iSideroad. appeared at Monday’s tmeeting of Vaughan Township ,Council querying why local li'esidents had not been warned 10f the plans to explode the (material. Councillor Dalton McArthur explained that it had all been handled by the federal govern- ment. the RCMP and the army and the township was not al- Iowed to remove it. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime instance,” he said "and was not the fault of any township employee.” Mr. Baker has been instruc- ted to file a claim for plaster in his home which was cracked by the explosions. “I thought it was a jet that had crashed,” he said. ‘V‘In Essentials Unity; in Non-Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity" But Suggests They Teach Half Day, Get $30, 000 Yearly of you victims hake off your Stuart‘s Studio Exams Are For The Birds High Schoo Costs Soaring "1967 Budget Tops 4 Million H0\\e\'e1', after only a short pause. a staff member, Jack Black- lock, head of the EngliSh Depart ment, fie“ to the attack. .Noting that Mr. Needham had demonstrat- ed that he was a grade 10 dropout of a not very successful school, he insisted that he was misinformed on three points. uuuuuumuummluu\uuummuummluuuumuuluuuumuuur With respect to rules, Mr. Black- lock stated that Thornhill and any other in which he had taught had no more rules that did the Royal York. Secondly, rather than lockâ€" ing people up, the freedom of a school is wonderful compared to an advertising agency or a factory. "I don‘t know what great freedom exists in newspaper offices, but it‘s not present in most industries." he said. Thil'dl)’. insisted Mr. Blacklock in none of his classes nox- in any of the English classes at Thorn- hill did jobs come first. "Human values come first. You have been inside the wrong schools". he con- cluded in ringing tones which drew hearty applause from the students. “I am glad human values come first here”, replied Mr. Needham. “I trust they come ahead of marks and examinations.” He then offer- ed to take two students from the school. with all expenses paid, on his public speaking trips in the next two months, "at no “me”, he sam' "um Overheadrchargeable to roads 1.5ugg65t anythihg of the is expected to total $38,583 for kmd‘” Ethe year and road debenture mmmumumuuuulumulu\mmumuuuuummuummmmum*Payments Will require $58,336. No further statements were issued by the Rich- mond Hill Police Commis- sion regarding the town‘s "Peyton Place" controversy when they met Tuesday evening. The board members. un- der the chairmanship of Magistrate James Butler, spent several hours discus- sing the 1967. salary sched- ule fer t1 1mm; force gm! its opening filidget. Last week the board pass- ed a resolution to seek legal advice on whether to press charges against Police Chief R. P. Robbins following newspaper reports of remarks attributed to him at a public meeting. Chief Robbins was also requested to advise the commission in writing whether he had any further recommendations to make other than those contained in the 1966 police report regarding any crime prob- lems in Richmond Hill. A. A. (Lex) Mackenzie, who at 81 years of age is the oldest IlVing member of the Ontario Legislature, is likely to seek an unpre- cedented seventh term as the Conservative Party nominee in the provincial election expected to be held shortly. Born on November 1, 1885 Mr. Mackenzie will mark his 82nd birthday this 3031' Mr. Mackenzie, who is a resident of Woodbridge. has represented York North in the Legislature continu- ously since 1945. Provin- cial redistribution has di- vided York North. whose boundaries corresponded with those of the County of York, into three sections. Mr. Mackenzie will seek re- election in the new provin- cial riding of York Centre which will' serve the south- The chief has been quotr ed as stating crime in Rich- mond Hill had increased 48 percent in the last year. Mr. Robbins agreed with the increase but maintained that the overall crime pic- ture in the town had been grossly exaggerated. He denied ever using the word "Peyton Place” main- taining that it had been coined by the news media, “at no time,” he said, “did I suggest anything of the Mackenzie To Try For Seventh Term “Peyton Place” Dispute Still Up In Air Vaughan Township residents will pay $421,425 for road main- tenance, construction and over, head in 1967 according to the road budget approved by coun- cil at its March 27 meeting. Road maintenance will cost a total of $256,500. . Of [this "aifiount the Department _ol' Highways will pay $131,250 and; the township's share will be $125,250. The township's share includes $30,000 for stone and‘ gravel patching. $30,000 for dust‘ control, $13,500 for snow re-‘ moval, $11,000 for dragging and blading, $10,000 for sanding and’ $10,000 for ditching. The CN industrial land drainn age scheme involves the provi-sion of storm sewers to drain‘ the north-west corner of High- way 7 and Keele Street. Total cost of the project is $180,000 of which the CN will pay $100,- 000: and. the Department ,0} Highways $39,000. The storm sewer will not only drain the CN land but will to a large ex- tent eliminate the drainage problem at Rockview Gardens and Keele Street and will also improve drainage conditions on the south side of Highway 7 east of Hillside Avenue. Councillor Dalton McArthur, Rebuild Elgin Mills Vaughan Township residents will pay $421,425 for road main- tenance, construction and over- head in 1967 according to the road budget approved by coun- cil at its March 27 meeting. Vaughan Council Allots $421,425 For Roads Road construction will COst $411,200, the township’s share of which will be $159,950. Larg- est item here is $66,000 the township will pay for the re- construction of Elgin Mills Road from Yonge to Bathurst. A further $22,500 will be spent for double surface treatment on Elder Mills Road. further $22,500 will be spent for: “How are we getting it t012; 372 double surface treatment on,di‘ain north now when we said 3 and Elder Mills Road. it couldn't be done?" asked Mr.:g0ry 4 Storm drainage on ON in- Williams. 1 In E dustrial land will cost $41,000? Mr. McArthui' explained that ment while work on Steeles Avenue-it had been impossible to do it' from Keele to Jane Street willlby means of an open ditch but cost township ratepayers $17.-;that it could be done with a'ReE 000. A road needs study islstorm sewer. also to be undertaken at a cost; “Well. as long as we're getting T1 of $4,000. {it done after them drowning le .. acirlni Added to 1967 construction cests m'll be 1966 commitments totalling $66,750, bringing total contruction costs to $226,700 for the township during 1967. ern county municipalities of Woodbridge, the Townships of Vaughan and Markham, Richmond Hill and the Vil- lage of Markham. It will have a population of 58.607. Two recent developments give strong indication that Mr. Mackenzie is going to call on the people for a further term. In an inter- view carried by a Toronto daily Mr. Mackenzie stated he was seriously consider- ing standing again. This was followed by a public state- ment by the Riding Presiâ€" dent Alan Hewitt ‘of Con- cord, that many leading party members were urging Mr. Mackenzie to run again. Mr. Mackenzie, a bache- lor who still lives on the family farm at Woodbridge. began his political career in 1922 when he won elec- tion to Woodbridge Village Tory Candidate With respect to his suggestion that attendance records be abolish~ ed, a student enquired 'if he thought the suggestion was practi- cal. "Wouldn’t a lot of students abuse this privilege?” she asked. “I hate to admit it, but I think the majority would.” It all depends on it you trust people or mistrust them, Mr. Need- ham replied. If you trust people, they respond, if you give them re- sponsibility they take it. “You must produce free, responsible citizens." he said. “I am not suggesting much you don’t have at the university level. You can have a lot more freedom without abusing it. uiih- out chaos. You might be better be- haVedZ" he assured his questioner. This found ready agreement from Mr. Needham. "Some students sit with their mouths open like seals waiting to be fed,” he said and quoted Oscar Wilde to the ef- fect that nothing worth learning can be taught. “Learning with the teacher is the best you can do." he mniinued and advised the students "A teacher should be a guide. phil- Mr. MacDonald suggested that part of the difficult) with educa- _tion was the assumption on the part of many students that the teachers are responsible for edu- cating them. "Nobody can educate anyone else. he can only do it him- self." he stated. HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT STNCE 1878 ELVULVAAA an, Ltvh‘bvxy-v uuAuunAu: and Keele Street and will also‘ Part Of the “se ha? ‘5 33' improve drainage conditions on=°°unt9d for by salary moreasfis the south side of Highway 7ifor teachers, although negotla- east of Hillside Avenue, ;tions on these are still going on. Councillor Dalton McAl'thu1‘,iThe board has offered an in- in answer to a question fromprease of $800 per annum in Deputy-reeve Garnet Williamsmategories 1. 2 and 3 and $700 advised that the scheme wouldiin category 4. solve 90 percent of the problem This brings the proffered sal- at the west end of Rockview ary scale to $6,100 minimum to Gardens, with the water carried $10,100 maximum in category north by a storm sewer. 1; $6,400 to $10,600 in category “How are we getting it t012; $7,200 to $11,800 in category drain north now when we said 3 and $7,600 to $12,500 in Gate- Council. He continued to serve as councillor and reeve until 1935. In 1943 he made his first try for a seat in the Legislature but suf- fered defeat at the hands of the Socialists. Running again in the 1945 provin- cial election he captured the county for the Tories. Mr. Mackenzie has serv- ed under four Conservative Premiersâ€"Drew. Kennedy, Frost and Robams. He won majorities in the general elections of 1945. 1948, 1951. 1955. 1959 and 1963. Last May Mr. Mackenzie \\ as honored at a testimon- ial reception held in recog- nition of his 21 years of ser- vice in the House. At that time it was generally felt that in the face of his ad- vancing years and redistri- bution Mr. Mackenzie would finally step down. “Well. as long as \xe're getting it done after them drowning over there for all these years . .” Mr. Williams subsided. Various schemes had been p1‘op05ed .to residents of the area who complained many times to council about poor drainage. All had been rejected by residents because of excesâ€" sive costs. Mr. Needham added too that he felt teachers have a hard lot in our society and should get from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. They should teach only half a day, he suggested and should have the other part free to consult with students. and prepare lessons. They should also be more free to teach the course in their own particular osopher and a friend to learn.” way minother student felt that there was too much regurgitating of facts in schools but that students didn't learn how to apply them. Mr. Needham agreed with this and suggested that to remedy the situation, students should be given more projects to work on by themâ€" selves. He then reiterated his ferâ€" vent belief in the benefits of travel for students and offered as his solution to the bicultural problem, the exchange “of masses of stu- dents" between all parts of Canada. Referring to Mr. Needham’s re- marks about teachers, one student agreed that a good teacher was worth from $15,000 to $20,000 a year, but wondered about poor ones. “What about the flunkers who float from school to school?” he asked. “Thgre really are some bad teachers. There are a should be booted out.” M ham agreed. To achieve dents should be free lution to the e exchange lnts" between Referring to This represents an increase of $489,821 over last year‘s actual expenses of $3,780,179. Five categories account 81- $1.500, associate heads $1,100 most exactly for the increase: and assistant heads $700. An instructional costs up $383,491additional $500 is offered for to $2,313,900 (54.19% of theEthose with a master's degree budget); auxiliary services (psy-Jand $600 for a PhD. ChOIOgiCal- “mm?” and at'] Administration costs \\ill total lend“? coullsellmg {W “P $164300 01' 3.85% of the total fiiiiiuliufi°hi°°gogf$$§wfgIgu‘iaet- mg;- a ' i - ‘ r .6 /b or . is accoun e 52341200 (although Pel’ce’Ftage 9f for under the heading of secre- tOtal bud?“ for “‘15 “em. lsltarial staff in the schools. which down .02€o)_; reserve f01_‘\\'ork1ng;the Department of Education mnd up $19000 to $123300 andidoes not consider an adminis- tl‘ai;i%%r3330n costs. up $9,091Lrative cost. 0 , . “as; Increases in these five catc- _' r V , gories total $489778. Included in the $234300 item However‘ to balance increasedlfol' instructional supplies are a lexpenses, changes in the prooilanguage laboratory at BaYVIBW vincial grant Structure will Secondary School. for $18,000 bring York Central an additional and a“ Closed cucmt 5y5t°m $259.480. This makes the pro_ at Richmond Hill High School vincial contribution 36.46% of For $15v000- The SUI“ “.5603” the‘total budget as Opposed to is allocated for libraries, re- 34.42% last year. The province flec’tmg the board's Ph‘losophy now contributes approximately of llbltal‘y antr9d_SCh?°15' l" $286 for each academic Studentllne Wlth this, a librarian W111 and $416 for each vocationallbe employed “‘15 year and student. {books purchased for the new mi__._..1_s ns1r_41 _._|.:_I_ _..nI .rnl. This still leaves 59.38% of the budget to be raised by local tax levies. the sum of $2,535,410 this year as compared to $2,224,904 last 1 year, an increase of $310,- 1 506. This increase is only slightlyless than the $383,491 increase: in instruction costs. Included in! these costs (on instructions of the Department of Education) are salaries of the superintendâ€" ent and the newly-appointed {assistant superintendent of ;schools. Bulk of the increase of vcourse is accounted for by the gadd‘itional 33 teachers required .to handle the 426 additional ‘pupils expected in the system next year. While the old saw has it that "what goes up must come down”. this seemingly doesn't apply to budgets. particularly school board budgets. This is certainly true of the York Central Dis- trict High School Board budget which this year continues its stubborn increase for a total of $4,270.000. In addition to this, depart- ment heads receive a further The $lZ-5.000 reserve fund settown‘s feeling in a letter to th aside for 1967 by the York Cen- board. tral District High School Board is too rich for Reeve Duneld Plaxton's blood. Mr. Plaxlun is Richmond Hill's budget chief. He would like to see it trimfi The province allows a school board to annually set aside a sum amounting to five percent of the expendi- 4 ..... -0 u... nunnnflina vaul- He would like to see it trim- med to $50,000 to ease the bur- den on taxpayers. Reeve Criticizes Reserve Fund NOW AT S BAKER’S 8:124 Reeve Plinxion, expressed the you have Need full BRAND NEW 1967 as would then be found with empty classrooms. He also suggesi- ed (in fun, he said) that all the money for teachers’ salaries should be handed to the students who would decide which teacher gets how much. “The students know who the poor teachers are better than anyone else.” he stated. This provoked Mr. Blacklock to enter the fray again. He character- ized the student's comments as tri- vial as there are inefficient people in all grades and professions. Mr. Needham was ignoring the good that is in schools he said and in- sisted, to rather thin applause. that 'l‘hornhill was a school with a great deal of good in it. Another student agreed that there were many inadequate n file in other professions but th' t .hese people didn’t have as much influ- ence on students’ lives. "Teachers have almost as much influence as parents and can almost destroy “hat school they wish to attend he suggested. and rthe poor teach us,” she said. Altogether, the question period was well over an hour. At the end of this time, a group of students surrounded Mr. Needham and kept him in conversation (quite wil- lingly) until 5 pm. Mr. Needham‘s visit was one of ase This will enable the library to function fully as soon as the school is opened, rather than lbeginning then to stock a lib- Wary. be employed this year and books purchased for the new Thornlea School which wlll not open until September of 1968. The 52.535.410 municipal tax levy will be shared 38.- 556% or $977,553 by Vaug- han Township. 33.7579}; or $844,878 by Richmond Hill, 22.512% or 5570.772 by Markham Township and 5.175% or $131,207 by Woodbridge. This apportionment repre- sents a slight increase in the share of high school costs to be paid by Vaughan Township. to 38.556“? from 38.24292; last year and a slight decrease in the share of each of the others. Last year Richmond Hill paid 33.884% of the high school levy. Markham Township 22.67696 and Woodbridge 5.195%. The drop in Markham’s share, in spite of the large new de- velopment at North Thornhill, is because the apportionment is made in terms of county equaliz- ed assessment based on the 1965 assessment used for 1966 taxes. For this year then, because of this'lag the other municipalities are in fact subsidizing these new Markham Township stu- dents. Sales 8: Service Ltd. 9144 Yonge St. The province allows a school board to annually set aside a sum amounting to five percent of the expendi- tures of the proceding year up to a total of 20 percent. 1am‘s visit was one of tled “climax” designed udents to a variety of ‘ferent subjects. (Continued on Page 3) PER COPY 10c