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A great deal is being said and written these days about the pro- posed sale of the Canadian owned Supertest Oil Company to British Petroleum, a multi national giant which has been aggressively seeking a major share of the North American market. Several years ago B.P. sucâ€" cessfully acquired control of Sinclair Oil in the United States. The proposed Supertest sale has been under the scrutiny of the fed- eral government since the sale was first announced several months ago and Canadian nationalists and much of the large urban press have been advocating that Ottawa should pre- vent the sale and thus prevent the last large Canadian owned oil comp- any from falling into the hands of a large multi national corporation. Cabinet Ministers, Energy Minister Joe Greene and Trade Minister Jean Luc Pepin after studying the matter, announced last week that Ottawa will not interfere in the proposed merger. What so many people and politic- ians have failed to realize is who the real culprits are in the sale of yet an- other Canadian company to outside interests. One of the major reasons for the Supertest sale is the negative taxation and economic policies of the Trudeau Government. The woolly thinking of Finance Minister Edgar Benson is forcing not only the Super- test sale but other such family owned enterprises as Dornan’s Northern Ontario brewery, which was recently acquired b y Rothmans, another multi-national company with head- quarters in South Africa. Supertest is the creation of one man â€"â€" John Gordon Thompson of London, Ontario who founded the firm with one gas station on Dundas Street in London in 1923. Through his drive and leadership he has seen it grow to where today the firm now employs 600 people, has 1,300 retail outlets across Ontario and Quebec and total assets of $52 million. Here 111 this jet age society people -â€" particularly those of the over-30 generations, tend to race ahead. hell bent for goodness knows Where, sweeping everything before them in the name of “Progress”. It pays sometimes, however, to stop and look around‘ to see where we are going and where we have come from. All over York Region munici- palities 'are eagerly grasping at devel- opment plans, and the real plums are the high-rise apartments, the town- houses, the producers of large ass- essment. They are the “in” thing, and next to industrial development, most sought after by local politicos. But are they really all that desir- able? Markham Town Council seems to think so. Last week it approved a development of four 13-storey apartment buildings in North Thornâ€" hill. It has on its books a 50-acre development which includes two 19â€" storey apartment houses and 450 townhouses, all jammed in at the corner of John Street and Bayview Avenue. Also in advanced stages of plan- ning in Markham is a ISOâ€"acre development with 18 townhouses to the acre and numerous apartment buildings north of Steeles Avenue and east of the Highway 404 right of way. True. the development also includes a 30-acre school campus site and 25 acres of open space and valley land earmarked for parks. On the drafting board it looks like a good thing, but let us consider the impli- cations. A $25,000 study in the Metro Bor- ough of York revealed that in re- development. high-rise does not produce the pot of gold at the end of the assessment rainbow. Boxed in by surrounding municipalities, York has no place to go but up. Before getting carried away. how- ever. the borough council decided to see if it was all worthwhile. Negative Economic Policies Subscription Rate The report revealed that. as a redevelopment scheme, after neces- sary services were provided, the added assessment would save the average taxpayer from $1.96 to $5.76 on his property tax bill. Apartment development seems to have little effect on property values of sur- rounding arcas. but transportation is an important factor. Where express- ways and rapid transit routes are lacking, value of apartment develop- ment declines. Pressure on schools. parks and recreation facilities in York are not appreciably increased by apartment development because, the report shows, there are fewer children in apartments. 'THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, Nov. 4, 1971 An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 7c: tion Rate $5.00 per year; to United States $6.00; 15¢ 3111 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. Ltd. W. S. COOK, Publisher Time To Take Stock “Second class mail, registration number 0190” {Em liberal is a Canadian businessman who has an intimate knowledge of the gas and oil industry and his record over the years has shown he can not only survive but make a profit in a highly competitive area. Yet why is Mr. Thompson ready to sell out to multi- national interests? A clear case for the Supertest sale was given by Mr. Thompson in a recent interview in the London Free Press. Even under ideal conditions it is very hard for a private family owned corporation to compete in the petrol- eum industry with the big giants. Any hope of being able to remain viable are being thwarted by the Benson White Paper and Ottawa’s tax policies in general and especially estate taxation. Mr. Thompson was also critical of the collectivist politâ€" ical and economic policies of the Trudeau Government with its in- creasing regulation over private bus- iness. With today’s bureaucratic harassment and Ralph Nader-style consumerism he doubted if anyone could repeat the success story of Supertest. It is inevitable that more and more Canadian firms are going to fall into foreign hands. Mr. Thompson’s message is clear. Instead of trying to stop such multi- national takeovers the federal gov- ernment should gear its tax and economic policies to encourage Can- adian business expansion and owner- ship. Dynamic economic growth for family owned enterprises is going to mean more and more jobs and pros- perity for Canada. Heavy handed tax policies at Ottawa mean only very large firms are able to meet the bureaucratic challenge of gov- ernment and still survive in the mar- ketplace in the face of stiff world- wide competition. Instead of using its legislative powers to forbid such mergers, the Trudeau-Benson Ad- ministration should be fostering the spirit of the entrepreneur in our people with enlightened taxation pol- icies. Failure to do so is going to lead to other “Supertests”. But the picture is different in the Region of York. Planning studies by departments of education in sub- urban areas such as York Region and North York have shown that apart- ments are producing far more children than had been anticipated a few years ago. The criteria for forecasting the number of school children likely to emanate from a development is the number of bed- rooms. In the City of Toronto and core boroughs many apartments have only one bedroom. There will be no one-bedroom suites in the 19-storey apartment buildings at Bayview Avenue and John Street. There will be 36 two-bedroom suites and 482 three-bedroom suites. In the same development there will be 450 town- houses â€" 132 with three bedrooms, 318 with four bedrooms. York County Board of Education planners predict an influx of 679 children of element- ary school age, 210 of secondary school age. w:Aiiid Qhat of libraries, recreation, health and welfare services? These at the moment are unknown quant- ities. True, in Markham it is not a case of redevelopment. It is a matter of producing the most desirable devel- opment to provide homes for the people who want to live here, and at the same time to bring in suffic- ient tax revenue to supply the needs of the people who have been here for many years as well as the new- comers. Markham is not the only munic- ipality that is putting out the wel- come mat to high-rise developers. They are coming into Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket. Vaughan is eagerly awaiting an improved sewer system so that it can also rake in the revenue from high density develop- ment. Perhaps now is the time for the regional authorities to ask member municipalities to call a brief mora- torium on high density housing development, and for the Region of York to commission its own study of residential development. As Markham Trustee John Mac- Kay pointed out at a meeting of Markham Council last week, what we do now will determine the kind of world we will have in the future. Our young people are making it very plain that they do not want a world of steel and concrete. And it is the 'people that are creating this kind of world who are the first to hit the highways in summer to head for the wide open' spaces, leaving the rest of us to cope with the con- gestion and the smog. ‘ U L A‘ 15¢ single copy Dear Mr. Editor: TRUDEAU’S PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES uvum v H“...â€" In the Ottawa Report by John Roberts MP, York Simcoe, he expresses his pleasure at being appointed a Parliamentary Secretary. One questions if the taxpayers are as pleased as Mr. Roberts at this ap- pointment. At the present ‘time Prime Minister Trudeau’s personal staff is three times larger than that of Prime Minister Pearson, and 'at today’s inflation many times larger in salaries paid. ,. AAA A Parliamentaryfiecretary is paid $4,000 over and above his greatly increased (this year) stipend of $28,000. The recent appointment of thirteen secretaries brings to fifty-eight Liberal MP’s (out of a total of 150) receiving a salary of $32,000 a year. One wonders if there is sufficient quality to warrant an increase to this number of secretaries, and if the cost of government is increasing in a ratio to the unemployment in the country. Perhaps this “office overload” prevented Finance Minister Edgar Benson from reducing taxes more than three percent. R. D. LITTLE, 54 Arnold Crescent, By BONNIE SHEPPARD True Love â€"â€" And The Aurora Drama Workshop A famous cigarette manufacturer puts it. “I’d walk a mile for a . . . l” I would rephrase it slightly to read “I’d walk a mile to see, hear or read Peter Ustinov”. How many times have I stayed up to watch him on a late night talk show? Each time has been a delight! You may understand my en- thusiasm then at going to see a production of the Aurora Drama Workshop â€" “Romanoff and Juliet”, by Mr. Ustinov. Perhaps I anticipated too much. Romanoff and Juliet is a three act comedy in which Ustinov wraps up Americans and Russians alike in their own propaganda until the actors are exhausted and the audience is in stitches. Ustinov intends people to listen to his play as well as enjoy it Visually and much to the actors Chagrin, he studs his sentances with almost unpronounceable words the way a cook uses icing on a cake. It’s marvellous l 1111119 Spotlight Staged at St. Andrew’s College in Aurora on October 28, 29 and 30, the play heralded the begin- ning of the A.D.W.’s season. Briefly, Igor Roman- off (son of Russian Ambassador) and Juliet Moulsâ€" worth (daughter of the American Ambassador) fall in love. He is encased in Russian ideology and ded- icated to service on an icebreaker in the Bering Strait. She is the television situation comedy idea of an American girl â€"â€" wrapped up only in herself and “mommy and daddy”. Location is the smallest country in Europe (never named); the situation which has thrown them together â€"- USA. and U.S.S.R. â€" are both wooing the small country: and our narrator is “the General” of the country who is hilariously aided by two slip shot privates. Of course boy gets girl, Russians and Americans see each other in a new light, and the general with his (Continued on Page 16) It was “love at first bite” when Canadian recording star Anne Murray met Snowball and Whitey, the pair of sixâ€"months old oxen at Black Creek Pioneer Village during some location shooting for Miss Murray’s first special of this television season, “Anne Again”, which will be shown November 8 at 8:30 on the CBC network. Black Creek was used as background for Miss Murray’s version of “Cotton Jenny”, a Gordon Lightfoot song which she does during the show. Miss Murray was making friends with the young oxen when Snowball decided the poncho she was wearing looked too good to resist and took a bite. Jack Cowan, of Woodbridge, the livestock man at Black Creek quickly rescued the‘ edge of Miss Murray’s poncho before any damage was done. _______________________________â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"--â€" Canada '5 Own Anne Murray Visits Pioneer Village Richmond Hill. NEW YOUNG CITIZENS The law of Ontario now says residents 18 years of age and older may quaff a few ales in the local “watering holes” without fear of prosecution from the courts. ' A These younger teenagers are emulating the acts of you, their friends, their school mates, their sports buddies, their neighborhood chums, and have taken to drinking on a much heavier scale than was appar- ent prior to the age change this summer. House parties, local dances, and informal gatherings are be- ing saturated by the indiscrim- inate use of beer and wine which, coupled with the family automobile, makes for a lethal weapon. To all the new young citi- zens of Ontario who recently don-ed the mantle of legal ma- turity, I suggest, you have a responsibility. The responsibil- ity of directing your younger friends away from the folly that a bottle of ale, or a quart of wine, is a short cut to matur- ity. We, the establishment, have shown a confidence that you are responsible and adult at 18 ye_ars of age . . . here is an op- portunity where you can' just- ify this confidence. Dear Mr. Editor I would like to express my thanks to “The Liberal” for the excellent reporting of the activities of the York County Board of Education. The readers of your paper are able to get a good picture of the scope of the work of the board through the full and objective articles that can be found throughout most edi- tions. As a trustee, I am naturally encouraged that so many art- icles have a positive. tone. At‘ the same time, I accept thatl‘ such may not always be thej caSe since our organization, be-‘ ing made up of people is bound ‘to Occasionally make an error ‘in judgement. However, I feel that such incidents are report- ed fairly and with a sense of perspective. Never is such an item made to appear as the only thing worthy of note in a whole evening’s work. Thank you for your work in keeping your readers well in- formed about their school board. YORK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION rd. _ I . ‘ (MI-s.) L0 The collection of childrens UISE AIMONE’ records has been expanded and Trustee, Y k or county the latest additions include re- Board f Ed cati 1o Milfmr Somali” cordings of the poems at A. A. RR 1, ThomhflL Milne children’s folk songs sung by Burl Ives and Pete: TURN SPARE ROOMS lSeeger; songs from the film‘ ‘Mary Poppins, and of course the INTO SPARE? CASH lstories of the well loved DI'. BY USING [Seuss All records in the collec- LIBEBAL CLASSIFIEDS -tion are available on an adult (Mrs) LOUISE AIMONE Trustee, York County Board of Education, 10 Milmar Court, RR 1. Thornhill. ROBERT THOMPSON, 173 Traybom Drive, Richmond Hill. a program of which they are]. “ justifiably proud. Fellow work. ers, prejudiced though it may appear, are pleased with the. s): poetic presentation of their col- leagues who announced to all if? children in the area, that in or- ‘der to enter the competition for ' {3 Young Canada Book Week: Here is what you have to do I K To win a prize â€" or maybe delay, Start your handiwork today! Representatives from local schools and community groups will be invited to judge the en-' tries, and all children, whether or not members of the library, are welcome to participate. We hope however that if you have not yet enjoy-ed a visit to the children’s library that you will visit us very shortly and let us show you the many pleasures ‘that we have in store for you. Activities at the main library throughout the coming season include story hour for prc-l school children each Wednesdayl afternoon at 2:30 pm, and forl children. a little older on Saturday morning at 10:30 am.‘ The book club continues to meet; gon Wednesday at 4:30 pm. Work ‘with puppets is planned for a Hater date. A pre-school story lhour is held on Tuesday at 10:30 am at the Richvale Branch. and as at the main library includes a varied program of stories, games and simple crafts. two! .As the contest rules have stated Write a book and illustrate 115. RICHMOND HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY r a book and luusu‘aLe u. r ---v----- ~ make a p03” D°“H.'-““““I“““ Young Canada Book Week November 15 to 22nd "JAA'yII ‘ v); TYPEWRITERS i? ADDING MACHINES I l the; 1' col-. i? CALCULATORS i? 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Even Cab- inet Ministers, for the most part, were asked to stay in their own ridings and leave the prov- incial fight for Davis to hand. le. Liberal Leader Robert Nix- on and New Democratic Party Leader Stephen Lewis tried desperately to campaign on is- sues and party platforms. But Davis refused to be drawn into that kind of battle. He forced his opponents to stand against him and be measured for lead- ership qualities. He won his own fight. In the party standings, with a Conservative sweep of 78 seats, the Liberals appeared to be the biggest losers, with only 20 seats where they had held 28. But the real defeat was for the NDP. even though the party wound up with a net loss of only one seat out of the 20 they held going into the election. The party’s rejection was most apparent in the loss of Oshawa â€"â€" a solid labor riding and the home of thousands of General Motors auto workers. The Conservatives won that seat with a greater margin of votes than the NDP had in 1967. even though the Liberals had a respectable number in third place. There was also a sense of per- sonal rejection for the NDP leader, Stephen Lewis, who al- most lost his own seat in Scarboro West. He beat the Conservative candidate by a scant 166 votes and a. recount has been sought, Some of the losing candidates have said that the Conservatives won the election with money â€" money which paid for a massive electronic advertising campaign. It is true that a fortune was spent by the Conservatives in presenting their case to the voters. But we do not believe the peo- ple of Ontario were bought. __ . They got the message that Ontario’s leadership was the basic issue at this point in Can- ada's history. They made their own decision. 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