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OL. 89, NO. 46. R be Tilirtttl “In Essentials Unity; in Non-Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity” ICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 18. 1967 Old And New Mix Well â€"At‘Fair Square Dancing Not So Square By JIM IRVING ‘dividual competitions. provided The old and the new collided a spring tonic as well for the at the 118th annual Richmondthrongs that poured through its Hill Spring Fair May 12 and 13:‘gates to be both entertained and a longhaired youth did the enlightened. and/or to exchange square dance: massive Percher- a little bit of gossip along some ons and Clydesdales occupied :ree-lined fence. the centre of the ring with tiny‘ It was a fair tllat was every jumping ponies. and a veteran bit a fair in the old sense of entertainer competed against the word, with its only con- the music of the merry-goâ€"round cession to the so-called with such old favorites as age. if indeed, that‘s what “Golden Slippers” and “She'lliwas. was that it be Comin' Round the Moun- brisk pace from tain” â€" and the overall mixturergates on Church Street, where couldn’t have been lnore com- the midway started. to the sen- patible. ior jumping events at the other it moved at a With a benevolent weather-lend of the grounds. where man plugging in the sun on tile spirited horses carried their final day. Richmond Hill Agri- riders over the hurdles. and cultural Society’s annual offer-fsometiines to the winners gate mg of entertainments and in-land another red or blue ribbon. It all depends on where you sit when you’re operating a dual-controlled flying boat, such as the one these two young boys were in Saturday at Richmond Hill Spring Fair. Obviously the boy Oil the left is convinced he was in control all the way, while the lad beside him is convinced there was something wrong with his half, even if he did have the rail position. The Penny Arcade rang truezlsayview Secondary School Band‘, to form, with the little girlslunder the direction of Eliza-‘ putting their pennies in the beth Matthews, which sent. its‘ "astrology" machine alid the‘mellow stylings over the grounds boys donating their earnings to‘and kept the crowd from losing‘ the pinball machines. lits good mood, even though that Not so fortunate. lioweverflmood was brought up short was the real life palm reader, every now and then when who had her own little tent out-‘tlie crowd passed in front of the side; she might be more accur- posters of the burned and sear! ate than the “Accurate Astrol- red children of Vietnam the ogy” machine but 50 cents goes,York Committee To End The a lot farther in a penny arcade.1Wai- in Vietnam had erected 1111111lllllll1111illtllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllll “mg the “'33” Winners of the two bi_ l Then. when the sun 1 proved cycles drawn Saturday were ltoo much, the arena offered a Susan pack, 5, daughter of {cool sanctuary and an array of, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Pack. :fine exhibits, both edible and 191 Altamira Road, and Mike Madaleiio, 13. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Madaleno, 124 May Avenue, Richvale. It was the first bike for Susan, a kindergarten stu- dent at MacKillop Public School, who insisted that her parents put it. in the trunk of the car and take it home immediately. For Mike it was his second bicycle: according to his mother, his old one was in a bad state of disrepair. “He broke the fork in it the other day and was wonder- ing when he was ever go- ing to be able to save up enough money for a new one," Mrs. Madaleno said. Mike picked up his prize Monday. llllllllllllll1111111llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlll1111ll1111llllllllllllllllllllll Off the midway. Vince Mountâ€" ford and his,Rh_vtlnn Ranch Boys from Erin. Ontario. ren- dered “Golden Slippers" and exchanged quips with the crowd. and kept the whole show going. while square dancing groups waited on one side for their chance to perform and young girls with spirited ponies wait- ed on the other side for their chance to attack the hurdles again and try to improve on that last time out. SO'SO, the opening‘ Cllildren, especially. got off to a fast start. as they made for the go-carts just inside the door‘ and performed with Sterling Moss-like dedication. jostling for position around the tiny oval. A little farther down the mid- way. the ferris wheel showed that it has 10st none of its at-. traction for the young, with lineups there that would have done credit to the Gyroton at Expo. Some of the more hair-raising of the 10 rides featured. found )the children reacting in the way" children have always done, the ‘novices hanging on for dear lifc.‘ed a flabby reporter and sever-‘ aiid the “old timers" releasinglal others from trying their luckl ,their grips every now and tlienlwllen he rang the hell with at to wave a cocky greeting totsledgehammer, tising only one,l their fans on the sidelines, andlarm. maybe even mug a bit. if the ride wasn‘t spinning too fast. A little farther along. Batman and Robin. beside their arch enemies. “Tile Joker“ and “The Riddler". gaped open mouthed at passei‘sby, who \1 ere invited to try alid knock out their long wooden teeth with just three balls for a quarter. A psychiatrist would have had a fine time analysing the rea- sons why the children cllose the particular victims they did to throw the balls at. Over at the bellâ€"ringing booth, a muscular pitchman discourag-l (Photo by Stuarts Studio) l 1hlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllll‘tllllllilllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllt N ew A ppointees To Metro Planning Board Richmond Hill Mayor Tom Broadliurst and Norn Garriock of Vaughan Town- ship Planning Board have ‘ been appointed by the ; Southern Six municipalities ' to represent them on the I Metro Planning Board. Mr. ‘ Garriock is the former reeve of Woodhridge. The action was taken at a recent meeting of the Southern Six at the request of the Metro authorities. As a result of the formaâ€" tion of the six Metro bor- oughs. the places which some members of the board have represented no longer exist and its composition is therefore being changed. At the same time, instead of its present four representa- tives. the three fringe areas are to have six members on the board. two from each area, north. east and west. In a letter from Metro Planning Board to the Southern Six municipalities. , which are called the “North Planning Area”. it was re- quested that one elected municipal councillor and one local planning board member be appointed to the Metro board. Timing of the appointments is not yet clear. Previous local represen- tatives on the Metro Board have been James Haggai-t l and Robert Kirk. illlllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllhllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ' l l i i l Tax Rate UFSEW HOME PAPER OF THE DISTR I A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY PAYS THE HIGHEST RATE OF INTEREST ANYWHERE Enquire Today it Yonge St. S. Richmond Hill 884-1188 SINCE 1878 PER COPY 10c lls Plan To Hire 6 Firemen The bad news is official. _ ‘ Tax bills for 19.67 in Richmond Hill will be up .10 111111 increase for town pur-‘the public school budget will be $26 for public school re homes assessed at 335,00 .3640 at $7,000. Those wearing the bi arate school residential su 635.2. ) for homes The filial figures were struck by town council Thursday of last week in an all-day budget session after weeks of hammer- ing away at figures proffered by the various municipal deâ€", lpartments alld school boards. 1 The increase amounts to 5.2‘ ‘mills â€" down from last year's irecord 8.83 jump â€" for public school residential; 6.71 for pubâ€" ‘lic School commercial; 7.05 for three ,separate school residential: and from two unstarted projects in ‘a 9.41 increase for separate school commercial. A mill is valued at $36,389.20. ‘ In dollars and cents this means: 0 A. public school residential supporter with a house assessedl at $5.000 will see his taxes in-l creased from $362.55 to $388.55. 0 A public school commerc- ial from $397.50 to $431.05. 0 A separate school resideii-i tial from $388.54 to $423.79. l . O A separate school com-1, mercial from $423.50 to $470.55.’ assessed at $6,000: and $49.35 at $7.000. sidential supporters with 0: $31.20 at $6,000 and ggest scowls are the sepâ€" pporters with increases of $5.000: 642.30 at “The outlook in future years is absolutely bleak.” commented Reeve Donald Plaxton, finance chairman, while acknowledging the 5.2 mill increase was not nearly as bad as it might have been. The council managed to keep the increase down to its stated rate due mainly to a two or mill surplus left over 1966. Mr. Plaxton pointed out the 5.20 public school residential increase was represented by only a .10 mill increase for town purposes. “This means." he said. “the major bite is the con- tinued school cost increases which we have little or no control over. And with little chance for any sub- stantial increase in assess- ment it looks like residents will be even more hard- pressed in the future." 11.9 Mill Rise In Vaughan Tp. Residential Rate Is Now 109.4 “This is ridiculous, I Vaughan Township can stand it,” was the comment of Deputy-reeve Garnet W ship Council last week struck a tax rate Of 109.4 mills on residential properties and 120 mills 011 commercial and industrial. This represents an 11.9 111111’ ,overall increase from last year’s ‘i‘ate. On aghome assessed at The 5.20 rate comprises the Richmond Hill's portion of peses: .90 for the county: 3.15 574880963 less $30,000 deleted for public schools: and 1.25 for for a new school site and an- hiin schools. Tile separate‘other 515.000 to have been used school board took the biggest‘to meet interest charges to .t‘i- hunk at 6.20 with the remaining mince borrowing under the mill rates identical with the Municipal Loan Assistance figures for the public school Plan. supporters. ,‘ Other budget items saw COLLIl- cil approve a $212,925 request ‘by the Richmond Hill Police Commission â€" $34,300 over the previous year. , Salaries accovmted for the lmajor increase at $165,637 com- pared to $138,991 in 1966. i‘l‘he commission will also hire one cadet plus a clerk. Other :items include $12618 for cruis- ier expenses; $5,000 for uni- ;l'orms and equipment; $2,000 Centennial expense. .34 s; :j. ,1: The Richmond Hill Public 1.1- brary Board will receive $50.- anotlier 312.000 to be allocated 000 Clinmared . to 3421000 last to the volunteers. The total year “ilth 53.131195 agam. makmg Wire budget for 1967 “as $50,_,up the major proportion; the ;970 compared to $45,670 in planning-board 3825.300, 3.11.111- ,1966. Of the latter alnountycfe‘tlse Ole: 19665 $“2‘375‘ lee- $19,000 went toward purchase '03 'on‘ S 5'000 complu'ed to Jof the new fire truck $14,875 last year. Public works . ' is down at $369,442 from last {Piggggr \gé'fgdliiutlt‘ztflgniplgggzglyear when it totalled $381,691. ‘to the hiring of the six perm-l .Of the 32'928'416'53 to be lament men Stating generally‘ralsed in taxes for 1967 $1,627.- ' l711.23 will be used for educa- lthat the town had done very] . lwell with the volunteers and in:tlonal purposes and 51-300" ,particular that the costs of the’ws'30 for mummpal purposes' inew men would be too much of la burden on the taxpayers. I llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllhlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll l H ,‘ 111.1967 Richmond Hitl's l Ydro Dlsplay centr public school 511990“ er Open Thunday EV gs most sparks in Raising the the budget was the decision to hire six permanent liremen at a total salary of $28,000 with l l e ratepayers will pay 77.71 mills on residences and l l A jump of 4.6 mills was inâ€"l 1dicated for Pine Grove separ-; late school supporters, althoughl the rates here are still below ltownship public school rates“ $1.5 residential and 34.9 com- lmercial. ‘ The 3.3 mill increase In the road rate came under fire from Deputy-reeve Garnet Williams. “I think don‘t think the people of illiams as Vaughan Town- scliool costs where the rate is} 29.3 for residential and 32.6 for‘ l l l l I l 1 commercial properties. The l ‘ l 86.21 mills on commercial and industrial assessment. Separate school support- ers will pay 84.76 on resi- dential assessment and 94.11 on commercial and in- dustrial. The general rate for resi- dential public school will be 22.94 mills â€" a reduc- tion over 23.04 in 1966 â€" and 26.67 for commercial 1 The initial response to Rich- ‘Imond Hill Hydro‘s Centennial Lawn Light project has been good and homeowners are re- lminded there is still time to lorder their lights. Six different models are available at a price lrange of $27 to $45. Each light comes complete with post, auto- matic control and 100 watt long ‘life bulb. Hydro will also handle :the installation at an average otherwise from women aiid similarity to the “mods” Saturâ€" children of the district. day. when a mini-rider and her; It too. as did the old aild uewlpony took much of the share of aspects of the fair, had its conâ€"dhe spotlight in the jumping tradictions: first prize in thegclass at the pony show. junior baking contest was wonl The miniâ€"rider in this case by a boy, Jim Boyd, of RR 2. was Kimbell Kirton, RR 1,i Gormley. lOakville. who is all of six years It was a fine fair on a fine‘old and a tiny six at that, and< day, with food, fantasy. rides.lwho wears a crash helmet, both1 prizes. music and mystery; and for safety and because she can’t' any children making the trip tojget a riding hat small enough Montreal later on â€" well sated .to fit her. with the wonders they took in‘ Once out on the track, howâ€"l Saturday â€"â€" may just even findjever. it‘s easy to forget thatl she‘s just a child, and not too, difficult to accept the casual (Continued on Page 15) Expo '67 a bit anti-climatic. **>2:* The Spring Fair had one' ‘crease of $47.60. 1’ $4,000, it winl mean a tax in- Biggest jump is in the ele- mentary school rates which went up an average of 3.7 mills resi-l dential and 4.1 mills commer-1 cial to a total of 32 and 35.5 mills respectively. Tax levy here is $1,046,371, compared to last year’s levy of $895,542. Close behind in rate of in- crease was the township road. rate, up 3.3 mills to a total of 14.3 on both residential and in- levy for secondary schools is $959,885, compared to $852,217 last year. ‘ Both the township general, purpose rate and the county rate went up 1 mill, while another half mill increase was caused by public library costs, the} levy for which increased to $41,305 from $25,122 last year. The few public school sup-l porters in Vaughan whose, children attend Richmond Hilll public schools will pay a slight-l dustrial. A total of $414,635:ly higher increase as schooll will be spent on roads, up from COStS went up here by 4-9 mills.‘ $309,022 last year. Separate school supporters, V Another 2.4 mill increase ls'lllSo “711 have to dig a little accounted for by secondayyideeper although for St. Luke's, iin Thornhill, the mill rate is lexactly the same as for thel ltownship public school rate. 32, lmills residential and 35.5 com-‘ ,mercial. In spite of a fraction- lal reduction in the tax levy lhere, $11,414 instead of $11,- |477 last year, the rate for St. lLuke’s supporters went up 1.41 imills, indicating a decrease in} , assessment. 1 Biggest increase will be felt by Richmond Hill Separate yScliool Board supporters where the jump was 5 mills, bringingl ‘tbe total to 36 mills residential land 40 mills commercial. \\ . , , Children attending the Spring Fair. must have felt they had wandered into the realm of some pl‘e-historic animals when they first saw these two great reminders of early farming days. (Photo by Stuart’s Studio): l ll\lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllumlllllllilllllllllllllllllll ‘ To A ppomt .. Trustee May 20 Richmond Hill Public School Board hopes to have a replacement for Ward I Trustee Andrew Hutcheson. in time for its next meeting on May 25. Mr. IIutcheson i officially resigned on April 27 as he was moving to Oshawa. At the board meeting Monday evening trustees suggested several people will be approached in the search for a replacement until the end of the year. The public school board taxes right now are all the taxpayers can carry,” he said. “With the increased assessment we expect next year, I don‘t see why we must spend this amount now.” Mr. Williams also felt that too much road work was being contracted out instead of being done by township staff and that with better administration in the road department the 3.3 mill increase would not be nec- essary. DEPUTY-REEVE G. WILLIAMS Disagrees With Road Costs Councillor Dalton McArthur objected to any discussion of,l0 310.600; ltlle matter at the meeting. “It Increment. was discussed in committee of the whole several times and approved. It is a necessity,” he said, Reeve Brian Bailey defended the increase in the road bud- get. “We have a responsibility to try and maintain roads aild ,get them up to par," he said.‘1967. . . ' _ 1 :“I am in favor of the increase members 1the same number as In deslglllng $01118an m9daS ‘in the roads budget and I am in 1966! have signed contracts for Expo 67. l and indusmal' ,cost of $35 or if the purchaser ;illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli prefers he can do It himself. The remainder of council tooki‘ The total cost can be financed the position that a town of 20,- over 12 months on your hydro 000 â€" with its residential andbim A low interest rate of six icommercialâ€"industrial buildingsmercent applies with a minimum 1â€" needed a start on fulltime‘ldown payment of $5. l men. Thev adopted a “let's: . . ‘ . . , , v e - :not “mt 1mm Its too late As an added convenience f , - v '1 'fective May 25 the display celi- rammue' ltre featuring all the models and full information will be open Thursday evenings between 7 :and 9.30 pm. These extra hours * a: ‘.’= *1 Also controversial â€" but with .all councillors iii agreement -â€"‘ lwas the decision to lop $75,000 ‘off the surplus fund of the York Central and District High ‘SCllOOl Board in conjunction with other area municipalities. 'Ricllmond Hill's share will be [33.7 percent of the $2,535,410 lbudget less the 375,000. are in addition to the regular ;9 to 5 pm hours every Monday to Friday. l Tile display centre is located ,in the hydro office at 56 Yonge 1Street North (Municipal Build- ing). lRichmond Hill Public School Board | Richmond Hill Public School ,. I, Teachers' Min. Salary ' $4,600, Max. $10,600 ‘,will put a teacher in every Board has adopted the i'eCOln-,classrooni, Mr. McIntyre report- mendation of its salary negot-led, pointing out, however, that iating committee, to set the fol-1 resignations may still be reâ€" ,lowing salary schedule, effect-lceived until May 31. "These live September 1, 1967: will all be very good teachers, ‘ Level 1 $4,600 to $6,400,,wbo have been called up to fill Level 2 $4.900 to $7,900, Levellkey positions with other sys- 3 35.200 to $8.800, Level 4teins,” he commented. _ $6,100 to 310.300, Level 5 $6,400 The teaching staff is coin- with $300 annuali posed roughly of one-third men, one-third single women alid At the board‘s meeting on one-third married women, Mr. May 15. Superintendent Gordon McIntyre stated. McIntyre reported that five‘ The supel‘lntendent. also 1'8- more resignations had been i'e- ported that Mrs. Laila Salch, ceived making a total for thewvlio will be teaching Oral .system of 19. Three teachers Fl‘enCh next year, _has had have also been granted leavesleachillg experlence 11'! Cairo. lof absence effective September Israel and Rome. For the Past Twenty-eight new staff two years she has been engaged When the Rhmm, Ranch The two Clydesdales were engaged in pulling a stone boat well loaded with stone when the will be up for election in prepared to defend it at amnfm. September. 13 of them ,),,_ Ne“. tIcemhers are employed 301's “'E‘l‘en'l playing. it was the photographer caught them. December. IContinued 011 Page 3' ing experienced teachers. This [Continued on Page 15! i'“11111111111111!llllllllllllllllllll11111111111111“11111111mullulluiuunllmimmumullmumilllluwmnuulm11010111110101uumuuumumimmutillmllmimimlumluiuiwulmliuui lllltttllllullllllllltllllllllllllllllllllittlllltllllllllllllllllllllt llltlllllllllllillllllllllllllllllilllllltl ililllullttlllllllllllll l lllllillttltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllttilll mu .iuluuumnumm lulu llllllllll 1 am llllllllllulll lllllllttlllllllllllllllllltlllllltllllh 0mm uiuhiuinzi.nun.mumi.iiiiiuumiiiiuiimiumiimiiuiiumiiiiimni illliltttutululllilulltllllllll illlllllltlllnllllllll lllltlllllllll i1010111110illmm!11111011111111111111111111111111111lllllllllllllllllllll'3‘ $1,051,500 Yonge Street Reconstr BY FRED SIMPSON A $1.051,500 reconstruc- tion program on Yonge Street and portions of ad- joining arteries will likely be launched this fall in Rich- mond Hill. 'l‘own council has apprmed the project which will see downtown Yonge Street grow into four lanes. installation of new street lights. storm and sanitary sewers. Ap- proval is also required from the Department of Highways. The project will also in- clude reconstruction of por- Author of the face-lifting is the firm of Proctor and Redfern Consulting Engin- eers of Toronto. Cost to the town â€" followâ€" ing subsidies by the Depart- ment of Highways vâ€"~ will be approximately 8250.000 ex- cluding the cost of hydro div tribution. Formal approval has still to be received from the province. "It's been long overdue." commented Works Commit- tee Chairman Deputyâ€"reeve Floyd Perkins. “The present situation". he tions of Arnold. Centre. said. "has been holding back Richmond. and Wright the central section of the Streets. town along Yonge Street We need storm sewers badly alid we just don't have the lines to take the runoff away. It‘s a mess." The Yonge Street section of the report includes analy- sis of present traffic vol- umes. prediction of future traffic to determine trutllc lane requirements, pl‘Gllmlll- ary investigation of soils data to estimate tile type of pavement required and recommendations On pave~ ment widening. channeliza- tion. and relocation of exist- ing utilities where necessary. In addition. it includes cost estimates showing esti- mated subsidies tor the \iil'l- ous phases of work. sugges- tions 011 traffic operational improvements. parking and servicing of abutting proper- ties and possible alternative liy~pass routes for through traffic. The report 'basing its in- formation on various studies- estimates that by 1985 rue annual average daily traffic on Yonge Street will increase to 32.000 vehicles or an 80 percent increase over 1966. Through trips will increase to 12,000 vehicles per day. Tile external trips vary from 8.000 per day south of the town limits to 4.000 trips norm of the tow. n limits. 1: calls for four traffic lanes on Yonge to handle the present volume alone. "Since tile existing right- oi-way is only 66 feet. eight traffic lanes cannot be pro vided. Additional right-of- way cannot be obtained with- out causing considerable damage to adjacent proper- ties. "'l’nu': an 'dCldlilOllul foil; lanes paralleling Yonge Street must be provided to accommodate the anticipated volume within the next 20 years. If the population in- creased lnore than anticipat- ed, more lanes will probabl} be required." The niaxtmum pl'at‘llt'nl \\ ldcnin; is four 11 foot lanes 46 feet to face of curb! rather than 48 feet because of the restrictions. “Widening to 44 feet 111 improve the capacity over the present 40 foot width.” the report states. “provided parking is prohibited during the peak hour." The 1‘6110. t leco;nmends that Yonge be widened to 44 feet with proper intersection improvements where practiâ€" cal. This widening will ex- tend t‘rom .\Iarkham-\ aughan Roads north to Crosby .\‘.C- nue. Tzle remm-llcnds report that the town lease, purchase uction lLiliely To Bellinilncheldl This Falllln Richmond Hill require service by a number of suppliers throughout the normal working day and most require the disposal of waste. If the trips so produced are or otherwise acqmre land for the development of off-street parking facilities. This off-street parking located to the rear of the Yonge Street frontage would not properly handled the be in the form of “small” level of traffic service achiev- surt'ace lots. the actual si/e ed by other operational im- depeudin': upon the avail» pl'oiements v. ill be reduced." ability of land. "Sznall lots tend to lcduce walking distances to the areas of attraction tuercily encouraging the use of such off-street parking." Proper servicing of the central business district is termed "extremely import- The utilities section of the am" by Me report. report notes that storm sew- “.\lo.t 510:05 and Oillt'es iContinued on Page 151