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Property Tax NeedsRe form Not A bolition According To Nader Of course in Canada, edu~ cation is the responsibility of the provinces. and no grants are forthcoming from the federal government. In France. the national governâ€" ment. contributes 93%. Eng- an Increase 23' . ' r . _~ : . W -, . The Ontazg'z vaernm t h eqmpment can be Paid fqr. up to a Smce the dunes were often held in the schools But. strange as It sounds, it en as com- maxmwm of $100,000, With a wide we were interested to hear that teachers come from 315° S°und5 Pleasant 1° the ear mitted a. grant of $8 500 000 and the ra ' ' ~ I . y . . nge of prlces In between. all over the world to work with Indian students. â€" JuSt as It sounds-pleasant to gaggle01gsglgrfiogzaslfofflghstiltfigtligt-' t- The need .is desperate and the “And the school principals helped make our program Eschgarfectloxgiills 2533253533152? 11 me to plan ls NOW. (Contmued on Page 14) “thanks.” and “friendshiP-" i11mm“lit““mM\\\\ll\1l\\\\\l\“l\\l\lM“lll“\ll\\lll\\l\llll\l“\“llllllll lllllll““\“tllllll\lll“\l\l\lllll\l\ltll“ll\\\\\l“\lllllll“l“ll\lllllllll\lllWNW\llll\l\\llll\l“\[\llllllluulllllll\l\\\\l\lllllllllllllllllll“mull““lll“llll[lllll\llll\lll1lllll\lllllllllll\lllllll“ll“l\l\\l1\\\l\l\\\\l\lll\lllllltllllmlullll“\lltlll“\lllllllllllllllll\l\lll\l\l\\l\l\lull“lllllull““lllllllllllltllll“ll“Ill\llllllllllllllllltlll'\\\l“lllllllllllltlllllull\\lllllllltllll\llllll\l'l‘ The amount of grant varâ€" ios from area to area. those that. “have not" receiving a larger percentage (up to 80%) and these that "have" receiving less, which goes a long way to providing equal- ity of education opportun- ityAthroughout the province. Property owners in Cm tario are not alone in their fight to have the burden of education costs removed from the municipal taxpayer. Their fight has been quite successful over a matter of many years. so that now the provincial government picks up an overall average of 60% of the costs. Ask any citizen of this area what he considers the biggest asset added to the community in the past decade, and without exception, we believe, he or she will answer, “The Hospital”. York Central Hospital, after several years of planning, raising funds and construction, a c c e p t e d its first patients in December 1963 with 126 beds available to the people of Southern York. For a few years, a hospital bed was available whenever needed, but it was not long before a waiting list had to be established for elective surgery. Today, a person in need of surgery which is not an emergency, may face a wait of five to seven months and the hospital averages 90% occupancy. On occasion it has recorded 129 pat- ients by putting beds in tub rooms. And these have been in the plan- ning stages for three to four years with the budget set in 1970. Addi- tional features have had to be added, some at the suggestion of the Ontario Government and provision has had to be made for new procedures, new techniques and new equipment, but the amount of money available has not increased. The planned exten- sion will provide a total of 403 beds, an increase of 227. The question of what the stand- ards and policies of the police com- mission are to be is one that also concerns us. The quality and atti- tudes of our local policemen are prime concerns of this region’s communi- ties and their citizens. These things will be getting, close public attention. The newly-formed York Regional Police Commission is to be com- mended for the degree to which it has provided the press and public with access to its meetings. This has been a great improvement over the past, although there still tends to_l;e a bit of unnecessary timidity. .0. ~ a--." u “- uuu 1 (IUl‘l ‘ MAI! {big poigtswl‘i‘p the need £61: enlarged facilities. The commissioners recewntly adofi- ted, with little public discussion, a The situation begins to make Us feel uncomfortable. If the aim of the new York Regional Police Com- mission is to impose new standards for its officers, then surely suitable positions can be offered to existing officers of proven capability. Offic- ers with long service shOuld be able to continue in a suitable job without being made uncomfortable to the point of despair and resignation- Unfortunately there is some cause for worry in this regard. Along with the resignations of young and junior officers during the new regional force’s first months. there also have been resignations by some very sen- ior and long term policemen. TWn of York Region's tor) 10 pre-197l police officers are gone‘ the second -â€"â€" just. recently being former Richmond Hill Deputy-Chief Joseph Rainey. a young well-liked officer aged 45 years and anAinspector in the regional force. As we see it. the aim of regional- ization for our local police was mainly to provide a more efficient and effecâ€" tive unit of operation than existed before with the small local police departments. But we don’t think the intention was to drive out any of the tried and true, relied upon, faithful and respected senior officers of the existing forces. The 18-month-old York Regional Police force is having some organiza- tional pains. Whether this was in- evitable or not, we couldn’t even venture to say. But the painfulness of the process is evident. a--- _-__.Vr7"_.7~_V Venq/ r _--,._..-_-.v.. -vn‘, , ‘ U L A‘ Subscription Rate $6.00 per year; to United States $7.00; 15¢ single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Pubh'shing Co. Ltd. ' W. S. COOK, Publisher “Second class mail, registration number 0190" {EMA 013m liberal THE LIBERAL. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, July 27, 1972 Your Help Is Needed YRP Growing Pains An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 on the wealth of parents and neighbors. To allot more educational dollars to the children of one district than to those of another merely because of the fortuitous presence of such property is to make the quality of edu- cation dependent on the location of private. commer- In the United States 52% of the money collected for running the schools comes from local property taxes. The rest is divided 41% from state sources and 7% from the federal government. In that country also. the California State Supreme Court has ruled that reliance on the local property tax to finance education is unconv stitutional because. “it makes the quality of a child's education dependent land's 19%. Sweden's 60% and Denmark‘s 65%. If you are looking for a memorial gift for lost loved ones, or a gift to Richmond Hill in its Centennial Year. what better project could you select? This applies to groups and clubs as well as to the individual. Rooms can be furnished for $1,000. $2,000 and $4,000, other rooms and equipment can be paid for. up to a maximum of $100,000, with a wide range of prices in between. Other youngsters have raised money through walks and other proâ€" jects and the hospital has received more than $5,000 this year from them. This is the spirit that will make the enlarged hospital facilities available with the “best for every- body.” and equipment have made the gap between these funds and the actual co§§ a very large one. York Central Hospital has oper- ated on the expressed intent of pro- viding the very best for everybody. But to provide the equipment to make this possible is very costly. For instance, a new x-ray room for special procedures will cost $100,000. Young people of the area appear to be well aware of the service rendered by the hospital and of its needs. An active corps of Candy Stripers assists in the hospital throughout the year, but particularly in the summer months their help is invaluable. Along with the police commission- ers and the officers of the force, we, are sure the public is hoping for great things from the YRP. We wish the force well and an exemplary future. May its growing pains be not too Severe. If there is even any small degree of merit in these charges against the RCMP, then here in York Region we should feel ourselves lucky to be warned at a time when we are form- ing a new regional police force. Undoubtedly the new YRP will have its successes and its failures, its knotty problems and its fine solu- tions. In this national criticism of the RCMP the nub of the matter seems to be whether or not the police officer is brutalized by an entwining, stifling and impossible set of rules, regulations and discipline to the point where he takes out his troubles mind- lessly on the public. There is crit- icism of what might be described as policing by statistics, where the all- consuming aim is to get more and more convictions on the record, re- gardless of other crime prevention considerations and all else, including strict honesty at times. The importance of this handbook and the policies determining the future traditions of the York Regâ€" ional Police cannot be overestimated. The police issues before the com- munity here just happen to be brightly illuminated by a rather warm controversy generated recently over the same sort of things in our national police force by highly crit- ical articles published in the current issue of our largest national mag- azine by admittedly disgruntled former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers. Already there have been a few squalls in Parliament as a result. The articles might be read with profit here. handbook called “Rules and Regula- tions, York Regional Police". The guidebook for the working life of our local policemen is now being tried in the flame of experience and we will soon have an impression of the police entity that is to emerge. The National Educational Association with 1.1 million members has gone on record as supporting a proposal for one-third federal financing of education to provide poor- er states with the means to raise their per~pupil expendâ€" itures which range from a high of $1.468 in New York to $543 in Alabama. cial and industrial establish- ments. Surely this is to rely upon the most irrelevant fac- tors as the basis of eduoa- tion. . i . affluent districts can have their cake and eat it. too. They can provide a high quality education for their children while paying lower taxes. Poor districts. by contrast. have no cake at all.“ (This decision along with similar ones is at pres- ent under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.) . Inthe Spoflighi: Four hundred miles northwest of Thunder Bay (the doctor and his companion had to be flown to the outpost), they met with Objibway Indians. They also visited Kenora and Sioux Lookout. In Moose Factory area they met communities of Cree Indians. To remedy the situation â€" at present â€" Dr. Martinelllo said, “We cannot subscribe the whole amount (of correction) with the first visit. Maybe we give them about half the prescription needed, and when the next test is done, six months or even a year later, we increase to the full amount of cor- rection needed. This is the most common error in the present program”, he told me. “Some of the Indians. such as a mother from Round Lake, are very health-orientated”, he exâ€" plained; for this mother had brought her seven- month-old child to him for examination. He also told me the only problem with the pm- grann as he sees it,is the thne lapse (at present) in re-checking of the patients. He believes eye examinations should be made more frequently than every six months or even once a year. But he added he is hopeful this fault may be rectified in the future. Answering our query as to the co-operation of the adults and children, he said, “They are all appre- hensive at first. However when the children realize we are not there to give ‘needles’, they react very cheerfully! (Statistics on the various clinics are being com- piled now for release at a future date.) In answer to our question as to why more fre- quent checkups are needed, Dr. Martinello explained that due to the high degrees of astigmatism-prob- lems found in these Indian children, changes in pre- scriptions should be available at more frequent inter- vals. ' But. according to Albert Shanker. president of the United Federation of Teach- ers. writing recently in the New York Times. people are beginning to realize that the attack on the property tax has gone too farâ€"“that it is This year, folloWing' graduation in May, Dr. Martinello returned as a supervisor, accompanied by one student. They left this area June 1, returning at the end of that month. Again the program had been re-organized and they saw approximately 450 patients. Mostly school children. “Between 40 and 50 per cent of those tested for eye problems required a prescription”, he told this amazed listener. The NBA Executive Secreâ€" tary Sam Lambert advocates transfer of the cost of edu- cation from the local prop- erty tax to the federal in- come tax. Then he would make financial support for the defense department de- pendent on the property tax â€"-which in 47 states is sub- ject to voter approval. “The results." he predicted. "will be less war and more educa- tion." President Nixon has also proposed to relieve property taxes by imposing a national Value-added sales tax. During their stay, they managed to see and test 1,500 patients. They returned to classes in the fall, vowing it was “a marvelous and satisfying exper- ience, all ’round.” That same summer. Peter Martinello, along with a group of six other student optometrists and two supervisors, took part in an extension of the original program. In the winter of 1971. through the auspices of the Department. of Na- tional Health and We]- fare, Dr. N. E. Woodruff (University of Waterloo â€" where Dr. Martinello was a former student), instituted a two week program for eye care of our Indian children and their parents. The first program was held during the Christmas break from university classes. Dr. Peter Martinello I had gone to Dr. Mar- tinello’s office to hear about his recent trip among the Ontario Ind- ians, in the outposts north of the Sioux Look- out. Only to learn that during the past two sum- mers Dr. Martinello had also visited outposts north of Moose Factory and James and Thunder Bay areas too. “No child should be denied a complete “Visual assessment" â€"â€" between the ages of two and three years â€" and again before starting kindergarten”. Dr. Peter Martinello told me, on a recent visit to his Thornhill office to diseuss with him his work among our Northern Indian children. “This is the stage when visual components (in the eyes) are developing”, he explained. “Of course, such things as crossed eyes, or deviation. or eye disease, should cause parents to take a, child to an optehdomologist as early in life as possible", he ad- v1s . By MONA A. ROBERTSON They Have Eyes To See . Mr. Shanker notes that this point was argued by Dr. Mason Gaffney. in his paper. “The Property Tax Is A Progressive Tax.” presentâ€" ed last September at the an- nual conference of the Na- tional Tax Association. "A local income tax similarly lets tax havens attract the rich by low rates." He then claimed that whether a prop« eI'y tax is regressive or pro- gressive depends on its ad- ministration. "But all taxes are applied regressiver and not. the property tax as such which is the problem. but the Balkanized local property tax." He notes that local income taxes would have the same Balkanizing effect as local property tax- es. Funk 8: Wagnell says that Balkanizing means sep- arating into small. dissenting political units. The injury-prone Mr. Fred- erickson. long troubled by bad knees. said that he was retiring because he can’t. play the wa}l he would like. “I leave with fantastic memories and the friendship of a lot of great people, including the Maras (who own the football Giants) who are super." he said. “Many fine things happened to me as the result of my association with the Giants and I'm thank- ful. believe me." In recent years a trade or retirement was usually the sig- nal for another book explaining how athletes are little more than exploited chattels. And the more seamy the charges and revelations about one's for- mer teammates or owners, the greater the chance of the book‘s success, frequently opening the door to new careers as TV com- ‘mentators. social critics. even lpolitical pundits. “Things just didn't work out in Atlanta." he explained simp- ly. “I don‘t want to be like some other players who knock the club when they leave They were good to me. They took care of me last year when my knee had to be operated on.” Then there is the case of Tuc- ker Frederickson. New York Giant running back who recent- ly announced his retirement at age 29. In an age when athletes and exâ€"politicians are falling all over themselves to detail everything that ever went on behind the scenes, and when every scullery maid who ever peeled a potato in the White House is bursting to give us the inside story of the Presidency. it soun d5 strange to be reminded of lay- alty. It also sounds strange to hear star athletes blame their fortunes not on unenlightened management and a corrupt sys- tem. but on their own luck and circumstance. ‘ When slugging First Base- men Orlando Cepeda was traded to the Oakland A's recently by the Atlanta Braves. he refused to criticize his former employ- ers or fans. The motion was put forward by Trustee John Honsberger of Markham at the July meeting. following discussion of a letter from John Roberts MP, York Simcoe. asking if there were any regulations against the clubs. and the board’s new policy will be circulated to schools and other interested groups for discussion before coming back for decision. dill“!ill“IlllllllllIllllllllllulu“ll“llllllllllilllllllllllIllilllllllllllllllw Old Fashioned Words Consider Political Clubs York Schools York County Board of Edu- cation has agreed to draft a policy regarding the formation of political rlub: in the sec- ondary schools. providing they have a staff sponsor. By their actions these stu- dents must give up such words as honorable. fair, right, just, equitable, square, above-board. and a host of like descriptions when assessing their personali- ties. If the. nurnose of am Pdnna- If the. purpose of our educa-i tinnal system is to prepare our young folk for the cold cruel world of business where to take any advantage for personal gain is accepted. then this particu- lar group of students have Iegrned their lessons well. I write this letterinotvtit‘) up- set our educart97rs,ror the par- After 13 years of training and‘ guidance a graduation class has‘ accepted the easy. unethicaii way of passing from high school by using a circumvention of honesty. “If the property tax were really regressive. one would expect the wealthy to prefer it; instead they have pressed for sales taxes." Dr. Gaffney pointed out. “It is the rich who have second homes, hobby farms. summer re- sorts. tax shelters. ski hous- es, Caribbean hideaways. (Continued on Page 14» "A common argument for sales and income taxes over property taxes.” according to Dr. Gaffney. their broad base. discouraging the poor from voting for public extra- vagance.“ income tax may be the worst administered of the lot.” Dr. Gaffney maintains that "to own .property is to be rich in the measure that one owns. and tp tax the quality of richness should not be presumed to burden the poor more than the rich." (Wall Street Journal) . , . g if mg and Village 5 Pioneer 1% FOR FURTHEF class has ‘ :36“3fgii;L‘f§k W?” 3* Kept 389=0464 .. . . _ _ A . _ . _ on an economic and ecological basis. as well as technical basis. will be necessary before any definite recommendations can be made. Council agreed to inform Markham Town Council that no commitment had been made by the Regional Corporation on the future of the road. but it would be kept fully advised of any upcoming plans. Full consideration will be giv- en to maintaining the pioneer character of Kennedy Road in Unionville in any future devel- opment. it was agreed at the July 13 meeting of the Region of York Council in Ne-wmarket. following a report of its engi- neering committee chaired by Mayor Anthony Roman of Markham. ’ Council was informed that in- creasing traffic on Kennedy Road South. possible change in traffic patterns due to the pro- posed airport and development in the Unionville section wnuld no doubt mean additional arter- ies in the area. In its report. the committee said that residents of the vilâ€" lage had been concerned about any future plans for the road. especially in\the Main Street area of the village. This concern of the people has been recently magnified by rumors of construction to four lanes through the area.” the re port said. However, further study. both Your Workmen’s Compensation Board and The Safety Associations, Ontario Your handsk ou in touch with $30M. 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