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j The gates of the Albion Hills Conservation Field Centre Farm Eas now been opened to stud- ents on a day-use basis. The students will have access to the {arm its animals, and the ex- amples it provides of renewable minimum“ifilfiifiiuifiiifitfififiifififiiu\uuumiuuuunu 3‘ Nurses Consider 2 Role Of Women muummmmmw“mmlmlmmnuuuum‘muuuulnmuuuuuMons on all aspects of the oper Albion Hills Farm Now Open To Students Daily 2 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, March 23, 1972 “The Changing Role of Women in the ‘70's" will be the topic for a dinner meet- ing of the North York Chapter of the alumnae as- sociation of the Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing on April 10. Guest. speaker will be Dr. Marion Powell, medical offi- cer of health for the Bor- ough of Scarboro., For in- formation and tickets call 485-6205. The meeting. to which all graduate nurses are invited. will begin at 6:45 pm in the Heritage Room at the On- tario Science Centre. Don Mills Road and Egiinton Avenue. ._-..C,__ Tremors are also to be felt here from the big things happening just over the region boundary to the southeast. There in Pickering Town- ship in Ontario County the newly an- nounced international airport could be as important to York Region as keeping the Steeles Avenue bound- ary. We judged there was overwhelm- ing evidence during the past year or an to support the conclusion that local opinion was almost completely against any northward movement of the Metro boundary. But we did hear from a very few who were for it. Certainly the York Region Council and the region's constituent 10cal town and township councils wanted the Steeles Avenue boundary main- tained. The school board and every known ratepayer group, as well as some other organizations. were all on record in opposition to Metro expan- sion. A conclusive student survey of Thornhill area residents showed a large majority wanted Steeles main- tained as the boundary. The firm decision to keep an ex- pansive Metro south of Steeles Av- enue is one of two recent senior government announcements of paraâ€" mount importance to our infant York Region. I _ “Years ago you put people on strike who were making 50c an hour. You could go begging and you could get food. You could keep them go- ing. But now the workers have a little home; they may have a couple of kids going to college. You put them on strike, they're overboard within a week. So we would like to eliminate strikes just on that basis alone,” he said. The labor leader is right. Strikes by labor in the past have been a tool which has brought them better rest The leading spokesman for organ- ized labor in the United States based his conclusion on the fact that labor has now become middle class, that the majority of union members now own their own homes (albeit with mortgages) and may be sending one or more children to college. The bogey of Metro‘s proposed grab of the Thornhill» area has been finally, and we think happily, laid to So it is gratifying to hear the provincial government’s confirmation of the Steeles belt around Metro. The government has certainly obeyed the expressed wishes and best interests of the people of Thornhill area and York Region. It wasn’t long ago that the then Minister of Municipal Affairs Darcy McKeough raised the Metro bound- ary bogey in a statement at a public meeting here in Richmond Hill. It was ironical then, to see the same man -â€" now Treasurer, Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs Min- ister â€" lay the bogey to rest with his recent statement in the Legis- lature confirming the Steeles bound- ary. in this case at least, it's true that the more things change the more they remain the same. The reappraisal of the strike as a means of achieving a labor objective by George Meany, head of the 16- million member strong AFLâ€"CIO was surprising. Mr. Meany recently deâ€" clared that strikes no longer were an effective weapon and should be replaced by compulsory arbitration. Subscription Rate $6.00 per York Region Could Expand labor Cun'i Afford Strikes An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 ’c‘â€"/ \' U L A‘ on Rate $6.00 per year; to United States $7.00; 15¢ single COpy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association ‘ublished by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. Ltd. W. S. COOK, Publisher “Second class mail, registration number 0190” Eh: liberal Prior to this time. the farm'the wide range of new programs had been used only in conjunc- available under this new Albion tion with the five-day and week. Hills Farm operation. contact end “in.i-esidence" programsfihe conservation authority at for students, offered by the 630-9780. authority. ‘*'~" W“ i * - *-' *' r W Under the new operation} AURORA: A 315.000 study on several different programs fonthe town's sewage disposal plant children and students can be by Pollutech Pollution Advisory arranged. ranging in length Services Limited shows that no from one hour to two hours and matter what happens to this for varying levels of compre- municipality Its sewage plant hension. The students see an- is going to cost money. Mayor imal husbandry. from the breed-‘Dick Illingworth said it will lung to marketing stages and the‘cost money to fix the plant ‘farm manager will answer ques-"'e\'en if we don't build another The farm is operated in the The new programs also in- Albion Hills Conservation Area, clude options for children to one of 14 conservation areas take hayrides around the farm operated by the Metro Conser- area. which range from one vation Authority. Albion Hills hour to one and a half hours in is located five miles north of length. This may be combined Bolton on Highway 50. with many other educational ac- A modern. practical‘ beef_uli\'ities in the 1200 acre Albion =|rinn nnnrnfinn H19 'AlhinanillS conservation Al-ea- A modern. practical. beef- swine operation, the 'Albion Hills Farm is representative of some farms operated in this area and has acreage, managed. to produce a complete range of feed crops for its animals. resources. such as. the [and producing crops and livestock. necessary for man‘s continuing food supply. The same arguments that applied to Metro’s grab of Thornhill also apply to any airport grab of Locust Hill and its surrounding rural area of York Region. Admittedly the loss of population and assessment is much smaller, decreasing the weight of the arguments to that extent. Compulsory arbitration is there- fore needed for the future particu- larly in the essential public services of police and fire protection, hydro, sanitation, water, transportation, the post office, hospitals and many more. So the threat to the region in this new Locust Hill grab situation is the same as the old one just laid to rest. This time, however. the way may be open to expand York Region instead of reducing its size. At present, when negotiations be- tween the union and the employer fail, either side has the privilege of asking for arbitration but neither side is bound by the findings of the arbitrator. The results of such arbitration would be binding on both the work- ers and the employer and strikes would be unnecessary. It could well be lthe new region. the province. the airport and the new townsite would all benefit best by an expansion eastward of York Region. We feel this possibility must certainly be given serious consideration. York Region‘s Commissioner of Planning Murray Pound supports this View, as do a growing number of our local municipal elected officials. Commissioner Pound points out the present economic structure of York Region is marginal, making heavy provincial subsidies necessary. He feels a larger region might be more healthy economically, although this would have to be determined. wages, better working conditions, more security, more leisure, better housing and a stake in the com- munity through home ownership. But this very affluence has brought its own problems. No longer can labor afford to go on strike â€" the worker suffers, his family suffers, the employer suffers, the innocent bystander suffers be- cause the nation’s economy suffers. The prime sufferer is the general public. Compulsory arbitration appears to be the only answer. “A horse of a different color", however, is the situation raised by McKeough's simultaneous advance- ment of a plan for a new international airport in Pickering and a new 200,000 person Town of Cedarwood. The plan seems well prepared and opportune in the light of all the circ- umstances. But it cuts a hole again in the York Region boundary and opens up the boundary issue all over again. The alternatives and possibilities for the future are certainly thought- provoking and exciting. The idea of adding another town to the infant regional configuration is interesting. It raises the prospect of a. regional system surrounding Metro. Inside the regional boundary the integrity of rural areas could be maintained, except for those regional urban districts to be allowed along the lines described in the Toronto- Centred Region Plan advanced last year by the provincial government. Within the region a life style and environment far different from crowded Metro could be maintained. ation, including farming. crop- ping programs. marketing pro- cedures and everyday problems encountered on the farm. These rides are available for bogh students and adult groups. Adults can also‘visit the farm on weekends. For further information on the wide range of new programs available under this new Albion Hills Farm operation. contact the conservation authority at 630-9780. "even if wé don't build another house in Aurora." \xeo First â€" there is no way of knowing if an unborn baby will be an- unwanted child. Some- times when a woman becomes pregnant, she is angry and thinks she does not want the baby, but when that baby is born she dearly loves him and wants him. On the other hand often the baby from a planned pregnancy is unwanted. Stud- ies done in California determ- ined that of 400 battered child- ren, 90% were planned preg- nanc1es. Dear Mr. Editor would have us believe. When the ovum and sperm join. a unique individual with charac- teristics acquired from both par- ents is already there! Nothing is added at a later date â€"â€" he just grows and grows until he reaches manhood. I am continually surprised to hear people say. “It is better to have an abortion than to see an unwanted child suffer", and I think it is time to get a few FACTS straight. Next â€"â€" this unborn baby is NOT just a blob of jelly as some At six to seven weeks. if the unborn child's lips are stroked he responds by bending his body to one side and moving his arms. At eight weeks if his nose is tickled he moves his head away from the stimulus, and at nine weeks he is able to squint. swallow and move his tongue! At 11 weeks he can even suck his thumb! Granted he is small, but certainly not an unfeeling jelly. There is then no doubt this unborn baby feels being abâ€" orted. whether by being cut up ‘D&C) or sucked out in pieces by the new suction method or poisoned by salt saline injec- tion. Clearly. abortion is NOT the way to save a child from suf- fering. Let us stop this needless mass killing. It is a crime against humanity â€"â€" a slaughtering of innocents being done on such a scale to make even Herod shudder. I have just returned from the meeting at Pickering High School on the proposed new air- port. It is obvious that more than the quality of life in Pick- ering Township is at stake, Firstly the map indicates a noise boundary that ends just east of Richmond Hill. which will probably be in the flight path of one of the runways. THE NE‘V AIRPORT Dear Mr. Editor: u" . -uu nculcluucl \luc u. ...., Secondly. Malton and the new‘great . _ {futureudatfi Location ""thâ€"EMinister said aircraft noise Swan are {ml}, 35 miles f‘pa'rt'iirng {SIS} \5éllfgsuilrest::sq3ieeetnnag-Eplant was approved by! thgilevels in Stouffville, Clax-emont . ormally flight. circling ladiusiura] beauty 01.3 forested valleymMB before the takeover byland .Ballantrae \vlll not exceed 15 at. least 29 miles durIng peak on the west side of MaryvaleIRichmond Hill and allocation of "ordinary Street "059-" “(altmg Pefmdi Since It lsiDrive, bordered on the north byiits capacity was by a Cabinet â€"w â€" -- 7â€"»~â€" â€"- highly unlikely that both conv Carrville Road and on the south‘order». NO LONGER NEEDED trol towers can keep track Oflby Langstaff Sidemad. {Someone else Will be happy it t 1 each other. what happens in the As children, my friends and I, ‘ ‘to buy any of those still good overlap? spent countless Saturdays ex-i SHERWOOD ROAD ’appliances which you no longer Thirdly. someone said that if‘ploring and playing in this lit-{Dear Mr. Editor: gneed. a plane hit the nuclear powerltle forest and as an adult I stilli We are extremely concerned'Reach for them fast and easy station in Pickering. you could.took pleasure in hiking through to read in "The Liberal“ thatmth a low cost Liberal want. forget about Oshawa. What this lovely valley. Waugh?!“ Mayor Garnet Wil- Ad. MRS. LALLAH CALDWELL 177 North Taylor Mills Drive Richmond Hill. MORE ON ABORTION Now the day is over. Night is drawing nigh, ’ Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Shadowsof the evening also steal across the field in the scene above which has been altogether too familiar in these areas during the past few weeks. The first few hardy robins are back from their winter in the south and the stronger sun and longer hours of daylight are a certain promise that spring will come â€"-â€" and no one will be sorry. Spring 13 Coming m We Think! I believe the people of Pick- ering feel this way, judging by the way they packed the high school. They are calling on the support of the people of Metro Toronto and surrounding area to stop this catastrophe for all time. Further it was suggest- ed by ex-residents of Etobicoke and around Malton that the facilities there be expanded. Certainly both pilots and con- trollers say the runways can handle bigger and more traffic. ‘And also instead of expropriat- ing rich Canadian farm and parklands, the government ex- around Malton, which are now no longer suitable to live in and are hazardous to mental and physical health. "People Over Planes", ’imittee Room, PO Box 159, Claremont or phone 416-649- ‘2118. pro p r i a t e the subdivisions 1 For further information write‘ Com-‘ about the rest of the surround- ing area. too? I lived in London, England, for the first 15 years of my life. During that time the governed area changed from Metropolitan London to Greater London. The move swallowed up one county, the size of York Region and made a mockery of the green belt. The planners now say that urban sprawl is out of hand, that to make life bearable the Greater London Region needs to be‘formed. That is the area originally called South- east England. Personally I have no desire to live in an urban sprawl, stretching from Hamilton to Bowmanville, when large tracts of land in depressed areas would make marvellous 21st Century city sites. Fourthly. apparently the Pickering site was on a selec- tion list 18 years ago but was turned down. Maple was sec- ond after Pickering. Fifthly, the building of Cedar- wood for some 200.000 people creates another urban centre outside Metro. One last suggestion â€" write your. MLA, your local council and better still, your MP {this is election yearl and express your views. FALSE IDEA 0F PROGRESS Dear Mr. Editor: Remember the 1984 machine is on the move and once start- ed needs everybody's effort to stop it. All my life I have lived in Richvale (now part of south Richmond Hill) and as far back as I can remember one of my greatest pleasures has been goâ€" ing for walks in the quiet nat- ural beauty of a forested valley Shut-Gain Research Farm Maple. ALEX SHADRACK if not aesthetically pleasing). but must we sacrifice natural beauty for their construction? Surely there is a gross con- tradiction here for a sewer syâ€" stem should be a method of saving our environment, not of tearing it apart. I cannot help but feel bitter towards the Richmond Hill Town Council for giving this incredible crime their grace and I know my sen- timents are shared by many. Furthermore, I can only say that once again it appears that an elected government has act- ed not in the best interests of the people it represents, but on behalf of an outdated and false ideal of progress. BIGGER IS NOT NECESSARILY BETTER. Now I suppose this might be viewed as progress. But is this really true? Granted, sewers are ecologically essential (even They have acted not using the enormous scientific knowledge available to them concerning the importance of preserving natural environment areas, but only with regard to the goal that Richmond Hill and her fin- ancial coffers keep growing. You will notice I have writ- ten the above sentences in the past tense for in the first week of March, 1972, this irrep- lacable parcel of solitude was permanently disfigured and de- stroyed. It seems that someone was interested in building a vast housing complex north of Carrville Road, a sewer system was needed and so the forest fell prey to the axe. the bull- dozer and the almightly dollar. type by our politicians. Why can't we elect enlightened hu- manitarians instead of politic- ians? It is time to realize that money alone cannot, and never will. undo the damage allowed I didn‘t mention the little fact that this sewer project will not even serve the oijiginal in- habitants of Richvale whose land is being laid waste by the roaring bulldozers. It‘is inten- ted for the new northern sub- division only. Oh, well know! 18 Ed gar Avenue, Richvale. ‘Editor's Note â€" The BAIF Subdivision was inherited from Vaughan Township by Rich- mond Hill with the advent of regional government on Jan- uary 1, 1971. and had been in the planning stages for several years. Location of the sewage disposal plant was changed from the Carrville Road area at the request of the ratepayers of the area with the view of its use being extended to them at a future date. Location of the plant was approved by the OMB before the takeover by Richmond Hill and allocation of its capacity was by a Cabinet order’. negligent decisions of this BRYAN SMITH progress you The arrested and convicted men are James Richard Mas- son, 24 of Espanola and Paul Orel Perron. 22. of Kirkland Lake, pleaded guilty to armed irobbery. attempted armed rob- bery and possession of a restricâ€" ted weapon. Similar charges against Perron‘s 18 - year - old wife Sherry Lyn and Linda Mann, 22 were withdrawn by :the Crown. liams and council members have decided to rename Sherwood Road to Rutherford Road. We protest most strongly. If the council wishes to per- petuate the name of the late Albert Rutherford, there are other ways of doing so. Captured In The Hill Two Men Get I4 Years Two Northern Ontario men. on parole from prison, were sentenced to another 14 years each March 15 in Newmarket Court. We have urged council to reconsider this decision before another chapter of history is obliterated and forgotten. It is unfortunate that we were only aware of this from your newspaper of. March 9. We would have taken action much sooner had we known earlier. York Regional Police Detec- tives Clifford Cox and Douglas Tribbling. with assistance from officers of the Metro hold-up squad. arrested four persons March 7 as they left the Summit Motel on North Yonge Street, Richmond Hill. A maid had found a gun in the room, he- came suspicious and notified police. A sawed off shotgun and a quantity of shells was found in the car. They had held up a variety store in Metro March 6 and escaped with 5800. Two days earlier they got $434 from a Becker‘s Store on Eglington Avenue East and were unsucc- essful in a third attempt at arm- ed robbery when the cash reg- ister jammed as they tried to remove the money. Sherwood Road is the only existing evidence of a once thriving farming community of which the Village of Sher- wood was the centre. UXBRIDGE: No flight pat- terns for the new Toronto air- port will be established over present communities, Federal Transport, Minister Donald Jamieson has assured York Sim- coe MP John Roberts. The Minister said aircraft noise levels in Stouffville, Clare-mom and Ballantrae will not exceed "ordinary street noise." MR. 8: MRS. HENRY BALLINGER, 2267 Sherwood Road, Maple. (Photo by Stuart’s Studio) This was to have been a column putting Verne Dynes in the Spotlight. However; as all realize. who have known Verne since he came to Richmond Hill in 1955 (and opened his first jewellery store on Yonge Street, south of the theatre in November of that year), Verne is a quiet, unassuming but very com- munity-minded citizen and businessman who shuns any limelight. Consequently you will not read about the life of Verne, or his wife Marj, or their two sons and daughters (who were born in the Hill), but about their impressions of Manila. where Dynes Jewellers won the World Fastball Championship. (One little aside: Bill Lazenby is now known in Manila as “the Mayor of Canada.” â€"â€" given this title by the natives for his sincere interest in his home- town team, which took him and his charming wife, Evelyn, to Manila to support the ball team.) "than..-" The fact that Verne has sponsored this team since 1956 is, in his opinion, just something he has enjoyed doing. He never looked for fame â€" but he is pleased and proud of his boys who put Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada on_the sports map. Both Verne and Marj agree that the hospitality they, and the 43 other members of their local group received, from the moment they stepped off the ’plane at the Manila Airport â€" to their takeoff 13 days later was absolutely “bounteous”. The group were greeted by executive members of international softball associations, city dignitaries and. “Remy Jose" their own personal public relations hostess of the Hotel Sulo (where most of the guests stayed througout their visit), and iuaus were draped about their necks in welcome. Remy, a very attractive and well-educated young lady, took the wives of the visitors on conducted shopping sprees and cultural tours of the city. The visitors noted that although everyone in Manila dresses pretty much in the western style, very few dresses or suits are sold “off the rack” in the department stores. However, the sales staff were smiling, helpful and pleasant persons, very much appreciated by the shoppers. Later Remy took those who wanted dresses or outfits made to her own dressmaker. This entailed a fitting and only a three-day wait. Some very lovely costumes will probably be seen later in the year on their wearers in Richmond Hill. Groups of twelve travelled about town in “Geepneys” (there are 6,000 such vehicles on the streets of Manila), all gaily decorated with bright paint and colored curtains and slogans. Invariany each geepney, taxi or bus had a religious picture suspended from the front of the vehicle. It was not unknown for bus drivers to depart from their regular routes to drive a group anywhere they wanted to go! Just another way of being helpful. Marj Dynes says. “It was this endearing, good com- radeship we received from everyone that made our visit so memorable.” Lllvxu u vuu. u. A visit was made by all the group to the “Phili- ppine Village.” Marj said this is along the same line of our Black Creek Pioneer Village, incorporating as it does the local history of the City of Manila and its surrounding islands. They also toured Corrigidor â€"â€" the big, rocky fortress built in 1903; which was taken over by the Japanese in World War II. The remains of the barracks may still be seen. likewise a YMCA building and an American hospital. The site was levelled by the Japanese. and 5,000 of their troops committed Hari Kari there at the end of their occupation. Another sight was Tall Lake, in the mountains. This is a lake within a lake in a volcano. * i * * 0 “Just say, ‘They were wonderful’ â€"â€" they could- n‘t do enough to make our stay memorable”,‘Verne and Marj told us. The final days of 'their stay marked a performance of 500 teachers, male and female who performed their national dances, wearing national colorful garb, in the stadium field, at the close of the winning game. This was followed by a Victor's Party at the Plaza Restaurant, where a bouquet of red roses â€"â€" symbol of the town of Richmond Hill‘s slogan, “In The Rose We Flourish” â€" was complimented with tiny white flowers (re- sembling lily of the valley) called “Sampaquittas”, Included in the “sights” Visited were: the beaut- iful new cultural centre, housing the arts and a museum as well as a theatre â€" The latter could only be compared with Toronto’s new St. Lawrence Centre in beauty. Here the auditorium had red_ carpeting, a low ceiling and a stage which came right out into the centre of the theatre. Prices run from “very moderate” so that everyone can afford to attend. But even the best seats in the house are much lower than those here, Marj said. {HE-fifii'l’ipfiihe’s national flower. Even during the games -â€" particularly when the Philippines team was bested by Richmond Hill, the response to the Canadians was tremendous. It was apparent throughout the games that the Canadian team was first second, then the first choice favor- ites of the native people. uuuu Itllvwv “.mv, ..... _, .___ u The Sports Centre,-Véinother new venture, IS ultra-modern. _ . .. u“. u. Inthe Spotlight Weekdays: Noon to 11.00 pm Saturdays: 10:00 am to 11.00 pm Sundays: 100 pm to 9.00 pm Take the Bathurst streetcar to the door Hourly serVIce on the GO Tram Entire proceeds in aid of Conservation Punjab the Wrestling Tiger Badminton / Retriever Trials / Fashion Show Camping /Trailers and spark; gear/Cottages Airplanes / Boats /Cars and Motorcycles Every day-March 17 to 26-Cofi33um,Tor0nlo By MONA A. ROBERTSON Verne And Marj Dynes Appears daily in the Arena- no extra charge Adult: $1.50 Smdents $1.00 Children 50¢