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Regardless of how the unifi- cation might be arranged, and how many municipal police forces might be involved. ultim- ately it would lead to a more complete service and probably prove less costly than present individual arrangements. At present each of the town- ship forces has a large area to patrol, much of it sideroads with few or no built up parts. constituting a lot of travel and perhaps depriving another area of police protection while the men are far afield. As a start, perhaps Newmar- ket. East Gwillimbury. Aurora and Whitchurch could consider amalgamation, Vaughan and King Townships with Richmond Some time ago a unified force was advocated for York County but was not considered feasible. With this leadership from the north, probably other sections might now follow suit. Hill forces (Newmarket Era) The Ontario Police Commis- sion recommendation that the police forces of the county’s three northern municipalities. Sutton. Georgina and North Gwillimbury townships. be amalgamated would appear to be quite sound. Should Unify Police A society which permits such grievous waste is shortsighted in the extreme. Our criticism is not of the magis- trate who imposed the sentence, but of a society which has stood idly by and permitted this 16-year-old’s mental health to deteriorate to the point where he committed an assault described as “dangerous and vicious” and even at that point did not provide facilities for his treatment. Un- doubtedly he will emerge from the short period of incarceration with an even greater load of repressed hostility and will be thus more dan- gerous than before. What will the cost be to society for the neglect of just this one youth? In terms of money, he had already cost society a good deal now. This was not his first brush with the law and he has been maintained for some time at the House of Concord. If he goes to Guelph, it will cost $12 a day to maintain him there, $18 a day if he goes to a training school. If he goes to jail. taxpayers will pay at the rate of $3,000 per year for his stay. This is only the beginning. It ap- pears inevitable that. given no kind of treatment, he will be before the courts again, probably on a more serious charge. It was a distressing commentary on our society last week when a young man, reported to have had a history of flying into blind rages, was convicted of assault in a Magis- trate’s Court and sentenced to three months in jail. The costs he has and will pile up in terms of human suffering are equally great. Undoubtedly his widowed mother has already suffered griev- ously with a boy she described as “bull-headed” and hard to discipline. The youth whom he injured in the Mr. Spooner’s remarks are simply another example of the province’s repeated failure to face up to its res- ponsibilities in this area. Not only does Mr. Spooner hold the major portfolio of Municipal Affairs but, according to all reports, he is a pow- erful voice in the Robarts’ Cabinet. In the face of this kind of negative thinking the municipalities can’t really hope for any change in the present relationship between themâ€" selves and Queen’s Park. The only way the municipalities can ease the serious housing short- age is if they receive a massive inâ€" jection of financial assistance from the province. Premier Robarts must be prepared to assume a far greater share of the cost of education and The R0barts’~ Government is still exhibiting a blind and unrealistic atâ€" titude in the whole matter of the municipalities and the current hous- ing shortage. Speaking in the Leg- islature last week Municipal Affairs Minister Wilfrid Spooner berated the municipalities for not encourag- ing more and more housing develop- ments. He criticized them for de- laying subdivisions as long as three years by swamping the applications in a sea of red tape. and Stouffviue joining Subscription Rate $4.50 per year; to United States $5.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. Ltd. W. S. COOK, Publisher “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa” THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday "Authorized as second class A Woeful Waste And A Woeful Want Mr. Spooner’s Folly An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 013112 liberal maul IUCU a 0 discipline. ured in the 161 1115 W 1“ U6 CUIHpUUHCleG several times over and money will continue to be wasted at every level. Aurora Makes Police Bills Part Of Salary Aurora Council last week reached a salary agreement with the Police Association, in which it also agreed to pay the offi~ cers' basic telephone bill dur- ing the year. The telephone bill, which last year amounted to approximately $50, is to compromise for the $50 difference in wages sought costs. by the police and those offered] by council. The latter had of-‘ fered $6.350 for a first-class constable, while wanted $6,400. Both, however, agreed upon $6,900 as the salary for 1968. Deputy-reeve Jack William- son said that, if council didn’t agree to pay the extra $50 for telephones. it would cost the town $1.500 for arbitration the police Newmarket pays $2.31 a month to police officers towards their telephone costs. Besides the inertia with which the democracies‘ are drifting to- wards and countenancing the slaughter, it is awful to see them participating in it. Any person who does not protest this most savage murder of a struggling, emerging people is immoral. To keep silent about wrong doing is to condone it and to partici- pate in it. This is the indiffer- ence which allowed Ethopia to be bombed, the democratic gov- ernment of Spain to be destroy- ed, Hitler and Mussolini to get ahead, and defeated the League 'of Nations. One expression heard is that the concern about tcivil liberties and moral behavi- ‘our among nations is “inter- posed to ruthless force and cruelty. One little negro lady Pushing a baby carriage with three little ones in it said to me, “sometimes they won’t let us live and work where he want to, but there ain't gonna be no more war." How many Christian churchmen and their families were there saying that with her? We need active moral lead- ership. Christians and all religi- ous people who will have the courage to stand up and be counted for what they profess to believe in. Sincerely. H. COWAN, 228 Mill Street. Richmond Hill. ret method of proving she has a soulâ€"and she will use the money to help the adult retarded . . . Ah, like the old expression: Charity begins at home. 1: 3k * it I! Expo is reported to be expecting visits from 60-or-so heads of state . . . and, without mentioning any names, you could include one fat-head. all s: it x: in Claude Jodoin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, was taken to hospital last week after suf- fering a "mild stroke” in his Ottawa office . . . 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Beleaguered council mem- bers and residents of Vaug- han Township who have been fending off onslaughts of Metro Toronto garbage for many weary months may take small comfort from the knowledge that their prob- lem is not an isolated one. as evidenced by the ‘follow- ing story, condensed from an article in the New York Times of May 7. The heading was “New Dump Sought for Westchester â€" County Considering Send- ing its Garage Upstate“. (King and Whltchurch Town- ships and points north, take due notefl. The idea of shipping large bundles of compacted garb- Garbage In this connection, notwithstand- ing steeoly increasing school costs, we feel that local school boards are to be complimented in providing psychological services in our ele- mentary and secondary schools. where honefully, such disturbed children will be identified. Certainly members of the psychol- ogical services team can help teach- ers â€" and parents â€" deal with mildly disturbed youngsters which could prevent further deterioration of their mental health, but it is an admitted fact that treatment centres for the seriously disturbed are sadly lacking. But if there are no treatment fac- ilities available for such children when they are found, to what avail is their diagnosis? The fact that this youth was in- volved in such a serious episode at such an early age indicates that treatment should have started years azo when no doubt signs of emotional aberration were first manifested. Such facilities are obviously be- yond the scope of local bodies, but provincial and federal governments should previde them without further delay. Otherwise the total of human suf- fering will be compounded several times over and money will continue to be wasted at every level. episode which brought him to court required medical care, suffered a temporary loss of balance evidently from injury to his brain and in the words of the magistrate “may or may not recover”. It is quite possible that in his next fit of blind rage this boy may commit murder. Must we wait for this? Wouldn’t it be cheaper and in every way better to provide facilities for psychiatric treatment for such young people? No municipality wants to become another Pickering Township with a lopsided assessment ratio of 85% residential to only 15% industrial and commercial. Pickering is where people living in a house assessed at $5,000 are paying $600 a year in property taxes. The crushing bur- den of education, elementary and sec- ondary, is slowly but surely strang- ling the municipalities lying on the fringe of our large urban centres. With provincial grants averaging just 40%, close to 70 cents of every local tax dollar collected is going to- wards our educational systems. Thus funds are virtually non-existent for such badly needed local projects as public works, parks, recreation and social welfare. All these facets of community life must suffer because of this total emphasis on education. If the Robarts’ Government is real~ ly sincere in its desire to see more houses built, then let it at once be- gin paying 80% of the total cost of education and make a worthwhile contribution towards the cost of pro- viding such essential services as waterrnains and sewers. basic services if any sizeable dent is to be made in the need for new hous- mg. Deputy-reeve Jack William- son said that, if council didn’t agree to pay the extra $50 for telephones. it would cost the town $1.500 for arbitration costs. age out of Westchester by train is gaining attention as a possible remedy for the county‘s garbage disposal problem. The New York Cen- tral Railroad would trans- port the garbage to low areas far upstate for use as sani- tary land fill. No cost esti- mates for the shipping have yet been made. Problem Continent- Wide; Study Rail Shipment Compacting stations for handling all refuse could be set up along the tracks at Harmon. North White Plains, Bedford Hills and South Mount Vernon. The garbage could then be transported out of the county late at night when commuter trains are not on the rails. San Francisco and other cities are studying similar , May 25, 1967 As the war in Vietnam esca- lates, it is terrible to observe the casualness and indifference with which the average person adjusts to and accepts the in- creasing fierceness. A brief com- ment or perusal of the head- lines and then on to more at- tractive subjects of Expo, dom- estic issues, fashions, food and comics. People are adjusted to degrees of ghastliness which a year ago would have shocked them and which they would have denied as possible. The United States is now assuring us that it will not use atomic weapons. Until when? PEOPLE INDIFFERENT VIETNAM SUFFERING Dear Mr. Editor: White Pine - 350 Years Old A guarantee that the tree will live out its nat- ural lifetime was assured recently when a member of the York County Real Estate Board successfully negotiated the transfer of the 80-acre Whitchurch Township woodlot, on which the tree stands, to a Thornhill syndicate. The Ratcliffe - family of Stouffville, which has held the land or several gen- erations, agreed to the sale but with the provision that the huge tree remain the family’s property for as long as it lives. This giant White Pine was a seedling when Samuel de Champlain set out for the New World, and'is the oldest representative of its species in South Central Ontario. The Ontario Department of Lands and Forests has estimated its age at 350 years. .It has a circumference of 13 feet. White Pine once clothed much of Southern On- tario and was an important source of revenue for early settlers. In the earliest days the tall, straight mature trees were reserved for masts for sailing vessels. How this tree escaped the woodsman’s axe is a mystery, although the curve in the trunk, evi- dent in this picture, might be the explanation. At the end of next year Westchester is to halt all dumping of raw garbage and other refuse at the Croton Point Park dump on the Hud- son Rivergsouth of Peekskill. It has been used for 40 years by most of the communities in the county, some of them trucking garbage 25 miles to it. Now the swampy area has been filled and the county intends to build a golf course or some other recreational facility on it. plans. One site considered for the dumplng of San Fran- cisco garbage is 450 miles from the city. The chief remedy the county has been considering up to now called for an ex- penditure of $11,015,000 for 3mm ‘ mm. 5‘ fering." Our society is too nice to speak out, too busy with home, school, church and its little man’s world. Why should Jesus’ followers care about hundreds of thousands of civil- ian bodies burned and des- troyed? I am proud to have walked down New York’s street with 400,000 conscientious, sincere, moral protesters. Doctors, scien- tists, psychologists, social scientists; Columbia, Harvard, Harlem, teachers, high schools. unions, and many other groups stood and walked quietly for six hours and more with a sense of deep committal and seriousâ€" ness to the humane and com- passionate feelings civilization is supposed to represent as op- posed to ruthless force and cruelty. One little negro lady Pushing a baby carriage with three little ones in it said to me, “sometimes they won’t let us live and work where he want to. but there ain’t gonna be no more war." How many Christian churchmen and their families were there saying that with her? We need active moral lead- ership. Christians and all religi- ous people who will have the courage to stand up and be counted for what they profess to believe in. an incinerator at Croton Point. It could handle 1,500 tons of garbage a day, an adâ€" jacent bulky waste incineraâ€" tor and the development of a carting transfer station at the gravel pit of the Colonial Sand and Gravel Company near Bedford Village. Yearly operational costs have not been determined. The Croton incinerator plan has been advocated by Malcolm Pirnie Engineers of New York, the county’s con- sultants and by 10 towns which would particularly benefit. It is opposed by Cortlandt and its village of Croton-onâ€" the Hudson because it is felt that an incinerator would contribute air pollution and x be. Sm It was a bad holiday weekend for patrons of the Woodbineâ€"with Avelino Gomez and Richard Grubb both suspended, they had only horses to bet on. But, with the seven-at-a-blow kid coming back this week, moit punters figure all they need is $2 for a grubb- sta e. So Toronto couldn’t make its mind up on plans for downtown development . . . and THIS time Eat- on’s took THEIR money back because THEY weren’t satisfied. Lately, when anyone talks about Prime Minis- ter Pearson’s speech impediment, you never know whether they’re referring to his little lisp or Walter Gordon’s big foot in his mouth. On the other hand. Victoria Day was a good day for the Love-in at Queen‘s Park. and Toronto’s creeps all came out of their crannies in holiday spir- it. (A creep’s version of “holiday spirit” is the brav- ery to appear on the street on a day when they can’t be picked up by the garbage collectors.) No wonder they’re calling Toronto backward. Did you notice the advertisement for Mayor Denni- son’s Proclamation of May 1 as Commencement of Decorations Time, for Centennial decorating in the city? The advertisements appeared on May 8! A Sudbury mother of six says she is going to Phoenix, Arizona, and win that $200,000 with a sec- ret method of proving she has a soulâ€"and she will use the money to help the adult retarded . . . Ah, like the old expression: Charity begins at home. Claude Jodoin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, was taken to hospital last week after suf- fering a "mild stroke” in his Ottawa office . . . Prob- ably after getting word about one of his unions NOT wanting to go on strike! Another remedy. compost- ing the garbage at several plants in the county was said by acting County Executive James C. Harding to be too costly and would produce large quantities of fertilizer that would have little market value. Still another remedy could be use of the new destructor which has been tested at Whitman, Miss. Officials have inspected this blast furnace type of apparatus which reduces bottles, auto- mobiles and ordinary garbage to small ash. According to a Globe and Mail story April 5, the Legislature’s Select Committee on Youth outlined a greatly expanded program supporting recreation, sports, physical fitness and the arts under a pro- posed new Department of Youth. They recommend general social instruction on sex and drugs. They suggest a youth corps to channel young energies, training schools for delinquents and crash training programs for leaders and counsellors. Will any of these projects be accomplished on a wide scale and can it be done without regimen- tation? Will the proposed Department of Youth accomplish what youth workers in the municipalities cannot do? I think of the lack of adequate coâ€"opera- tion given to those who make real attempts to set up facilities and programs for local youth. Money is scarce and leaders are hard to come by. Can whole- sale c‘o-operation of youth be compelled or will it respond to invitations? I agree the utopian vision is necessary but a knowledge of society must go along with it. Propos- als for reform must be compatible with social con- ditions. What does the select committee propose to do about the rebellious ones swelling the ranks of the new generation? It is the rebels who have in- spired the search for new values yet it will not be they who benefit. The suggestions of the committee are sound and constructive but they are geared for the conventional predictable young person whose ap- proach to life is yes instead of no. The committee says Ontario should set up a youth corps to utilize the creative energies of young people. Such a corps would take on volunteer serv- ices in hospitals and senior citizens’ homes. They could tutor and help other youngsters in a juvenile big brother and sister scheme. I feel sure a lot of really nice kids would jump at this chance to be useful. Many of them have well developed social consciences. They are the salt of the country, the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Rangers, Rovers, Candy Stripers, “Y” and church the destruction of wildlife wetlands. Form letters have been dis- tributed by the Cortlandt Conservation Association de- The surveys made by the Legislative Committee have been costly. Will there be a follow through? The nation’s filing cabinets are stuffed with briefs, surveys and reports. The road to hell is always paved with good intentions. George Mayes 0n â€"- Rambling Around Youth Department Urged By Select Committee On Youth THE YOUTH CORPS ISN’T FOR EVERYONE Me Flip Side (Continued on Page 14) nouncing the proposal for an incinerator at Croton, which engineers report already has four of the 16 major causes of air pollution in Westches- ter County. The letter states that the low level of the site would give the inevitable fumes from the incinerator the best possible path to move upward and blanket the town. The association estimated the cost of setting up the compacting plan at $3 mil- lion but some think this is too high. The association’s estimated operating costs of $1 million a year have also been disputed. Whatever the costs, they would be paid by the communities that joined a proposed county garbage district. Between 1911 and 1913 his neighbors to the north and east. ‘â€" James Russell, Nathan Chap- man. William Russell. George Quantz and Walter E. Quantz â€" sold their farms to the City of Toronto. They were mostly getting on in years and found it convenient to accept good offers. However, to David Boyle, owner of the west 100 acres of Lot 36. Concession 1. Markham Town- ship, selling seemed out of the question. Mr. Boyle had a son ready and willing to carry on in the family tradition; he had very recently built a large brick house on a knoll overlooking the corner of Yonge Street and Highway 7 east; and he was justifiably proud of his beauti- ful property with its gently roll- ling fields and three fine orch- ards. Hard work had brough perity and he made su his three sons and two ters were given a good : life. David Jr. planned to same for his children St the agent from the city upon him. Mr. Boyle said ly but emphatically. tl land was not for sale. arily this would have em matter, but the solicitor city wrote a letter to thc that the property was for the proposed Langst Farm and if Mr. Boyle l prepared to accept the 1 $39,000. the farm would propriated. This harsh frequently used nowada; an unfamiliar term in tl rict at that time. S‘hocli chagrined. Mr. Bovle em Originally part of a crown grant to Abner Miles in 1803, it had been held by Miles’ des- cendants. one of them the well remembered John Langstaff, for 90 years. When the farm came on the market for the first time in 1893 it was bought by David Boyle Sr. for his son, David. The following year Mr. Boyle also transferred to David Jr. the east 105 acres of Lot 36, Con- cession 1, Vaughan Township. across the road. which he had purchased in 1869. This was the former Jeremiah Atkinson farm mentioned in an earlier article. The elder Boyle had come to Canada from Ayrshire, Scotland. in 1842 at the age of 22. After working as a blacksmith for a few years he established himself on a farm in East York, then bought Lot 45, Concession 1 Vaughan, a 200 acre farm which included a saw mill. A public spirited man. he served his com- munity well as reeve and deputy-reeve of Vaughan Town- ship, school trustee and mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church. , -_,°_g-_ _ prominent Toronto lawyer, Hart- ley Dewart KC to conduct his case against the city but to no avail. On May I. 1914 the Boyles moved to Homewood Hall, an interesting older house in the heart of Thornhill. after dis- posing of all their livestock, farm machinery and equipment at an auction conducted by Mr. Prentice. uncle of Auctioneer Ken Prentice. Morgan Boyle remembers that his father was very concerned because he had no place to keep May. a pet horse. then over 20 years old. He gave her to Jake Graham. an elderly man living near Au- rora who liked to drive to, and from, the town occasionally. But May never forgot her former owner, and home. Three years later she made her way safely back to the Boyle Farm on the west side of Yonge Street, at Langstaff. This farm had been rented to William Richards but when he retired shortly after the expropriation, Morgan Boyle took up farming again, commut- (Continued on Page 14) The elder Boyle had come to; Canada from Ayrshire, Scotland. in 1842 at the age of 22. After working as a blacksmith for a few years he established himself on a farm in East York, then bought Lot 45, Concession 1 Vaughan, a 200 acre farm which included a saw mill. A public spirited man. he served his com- munity well as reeve and deputy-reeve of Vaughan Town- ship, school trustee and mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church. § Window 0:: Me Past 43 Song For Young Canada Pipher Funeral Home TO BE SURE YOUR HEIRS ARE PROVIDED FOR ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS. M. N. FOYLE, MANAG] 12] YONGE ST. N. RICHMOND HILL A wild rose on the prairie land, Gay triiiiums bloom on every hand; And in the marsh by Scotia’s tide Forget-me-nots are golden-eyed. Dear Land of Home we cherish thee. Hold fast our faith from sea to sea! Our forebears came from o’er the foam To this dear land to make their‘home: It’s written now on history’s page â€"- We are one hundred years of age. 0 Land of Home we cherish thee, Hold fast our bonds from sea to sea! CHORUS The Boyle Farm And Its Expropriations See yourWLawyer about your Will See us about being your Executor Dear Canada we love thy plains, Thy mountains and thy April rains; We love the snow, the autumn too, And so we sing our love for you. VICTORIA AND GREY TRUST PLEASE DON’T TRY TO DRAW YOUR OWN WILL by Doris M. Fitzgerald WILL WHY Serving the community since 1876 The Wright & Taylor Chapel Richmond Hill, Ontario YOUR CHOICE CAN SETTLE YOUR ESTATE THE WAY YOU WANT. SO THE EXECUTOR OF 126 Yonge St. N. propriated. This harsh word. frequently used nowadays. was an unfamiliar term in the dist- rict at that time. Shocked and chagrined, Mr. Boyle engaged a prominent Toronto lawyer, Hart- ley Dewart KC to conduct his case against the city but to no avail. David Jr. planned to do the same for his children so when the agent from the city called upon him. Mr. Boyle said polite- ly but emphatically. that his land was not for sale. Ordin- arily this would have ended the matter, but the solicitor for the city wrote a letter to the effect that the property was needed for the proposed Langstalff Jail Hard work had brought pros- perity and he made sure that his three sons and two daugh- ters were given a good start in life. Farm and if Mr. Boylâ€"e was not prgpared to accept the offer of 884-1062 Robert D. Little GER 884-1107 889-1308 be ex-