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VOL. 96, NO. 31. Although smaller than Richmond Hill’s other secondary schools, Don Head will be well represented in the Snow Queen competition next week. Left to right are Rhonda Lindahl, level 1: Linda Glass, level 2; and Joyce O’Con- A rock and roll dance with music supplied by local musical (groups will follow the crown- ing of the Carnival Queen on February 9, and entrants nominated by Langstaff Secondary are, left to right: Sue Alderton, grade 12; Judges will have a difficult time in select- ing :1 Carnival Queen when they are faced with the bevy of beauties from Richmond Hill’s secondary schools who will be guests at dinners sponsored by _ Richmond Hill Lions and the Legion before the judging next week. The Snow Queen to reign over Richmond Hill’s annual Winter Carnival February 8, 9, 10, and 11 will be chosen at a dinner dance at Summit Golf and Country Club February 8 and will be crowned at the Mill Pond when festiv- ities get under way February 9. The four secondary schools in the area Ricfi WI‘ ubli RICHMOND HILL SNOW PRINCESSES LA NGSTAFF SNOW PRINCESSES DON HEAD SNOW PRINCESSES BA YVIEW SNOW PRINCESSES nor, level 3. The winner will receive a stereo donated by Danforth Radio, and there will be several other prizes, most of them donated by local merchants. Debbie Poulet, grade 10 and Janet Hofman, grade 9. Missing at the time the picture was taken are Lynne Brioux, grade 11 and Lorraine Sherman, grade 13. were invited to nominate a princess from each grade level in the school. Pictured above are candidates who will represent Richmond Hill High School, left to right: Shelley Hutchison, grade 13; Louise Clark, grade 12; Barbara Binkley, grade 11; Cheryl Bailie, grade 10 and Leslie Bunting, grade 9. RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1973 “In Essentials Unity; in Non-Essentials Liberty; in 1Photos by Stuart’s Studio) amnuuuuuuuuuuummun\munuuuuummmmuumuu London Flu Stops Gormley Noise Trial zi-lllllllllllllllllll“l“\ll“\llll“ll“\ll1\\lllllml\\l“mull!“Humlll“llmllllllllllllllll“llmull“lm!l\lllllllllllllll!lllll“llmlllllllllllllllull“llllllllllllllllllll“llllllllll“llllllllllfllllllllllfllllfll'llllll\lllllmllllllllfllllllllulllllllllllllllullllllllllullllll\lllmllll“llllllllllllIlllIll!“lllllllllll“llll\1lllll\lllllll“ll\“Illlunllllllunlmlml“'F At its meeting January 24, council‘s planning committee recommended approval of the applica- tions. development being subject to a site plan agreement with the town. mmmummmImumuummnmnm1uummnmumn\mm General Concrete Limit- ed was charged in August. It has a cement product plant on the Gormley Side- road near the CN railway crossing . With the town lawyer un- able to attend court, Pro- vincial Judge Russell Pearse arranged a new trial date of April 3 mr mvewmarket Pro- vincial Court. Trial of a Gormley firm charged last summer with violating Richmond Hill Noise Bylaw 13-71 was post- poned in Provincial Court Friday morning of last week when Town Solicitor Thomâ€" as Fraser came down with the London flu. Busch said after the verdict he and every po- liceman and prison guard he knows are in favor of the death penalty for mur- der. His daughter’s killer was given a life sentence by Mr. Justice Thomas Berger. The man already had a life sentence for rape and other charges. The trial began Monday of last week and three prisoners testified the killer hated Busch and wanted to get even with him. Busch’s daughter disappeared while on the way to school. The jail guard father of a murdered seven-year-old British Columbia girl Fri- day appealed to Canadians to write to Members of Parliament demanding that dangerous convicts like the one who murdered his daughter be given no more passes to leave jail. Kalus Busch, 33, issued his appeal after a 26-year- old rapist was convicted in British Columbia Sup- reme Court for non-cap- ital murder. Busch’s daugh- ter was‘ killed in June while the rapist was on a four-day pass from the prison where Busch was a guard. The industrial area north of Elgin Mills Road East, where these new in- dustries will be located was annexed to the town from Markham Township in 1968 to provide addi- tional land primarily for industrial development. Reynolds Extrusion Company's plant is locat- ed‘on west side of Ed- ward Avenue. and include sanitary and storm sewers and munic. ipal water and under- ground hydro. Five new industries will be locating in Richmond Hill, according to applica- tions at present before the town’s committee of adust- ment. The applications have been filed by Richmond Hill Industrial Acres (1963) Limited and the new industries will be lo- cated on the east side of Edward Avenue, north of Elgin Mills Road East. Services are‘ already in- stalled on Edward Avenue to the retention of capital pun- ishment and support the propos- ed five year extension of the ban on hanging. I know that many of you disagree with me. This presents an MP with a difficult decision. 15 he to re- flect what he feels is the senti- ment of his electors or vote according to his own judgment and conscience? Knowing how interested are many of my con- stituents in this question, I have devoted a good deal of time to studying the pros and cons of capital punishment. After all this study I feel I must fonow my judgement and conscience, hoping my constit- uents will respect my views and judge me accordingly. Let me explain in a few words how I feel. This principal argu- ment in favor of capital punish- ment is its deterrent effect. The argument runs as follows: “If a man is about to kill he will think twice if his own death will result from his ac- tion.” In the face of over- whelming evidence against this Danson Wants The Death Penalty Abolished Parliament is now studying the question of capital punish- ment. Frankly I am opposed Father Says Keep Death Penalty By BARNEY DANSON MP Five New Industries York North There was one murder in 1972. and none in 1971. As- sults were up 480 to 433 rape up one from 14 in 1971. with other sexual of- fences jumping from 78 to 105. All told, there were 7.484 criminal offences in 1972, compared with 7,343 in 1971. Theft over $50 dropped slightly from 1.336 in 1971 to 1,285, while theft over- $50 increased from 1,567 to 1,778. Frauds jumped from 380 to 457, while armed robbery was up f’our from 26 in 1971. He said he thought it would have to be the subject of a “real, determined study to find why.” There has been an in-; Chief Crawford said he crease of 1.9 in criminallwould present a report on occurrences in York Region ; the drug situation in the re- during 1972, Police Chief'gion at a later date. but Bruce Crawford told 'a meet- pointed out that drug ofâ€" ing of the board of police fences were “generally on commissioners January 23. ‘the' decline." Chief Crawford termedi Board Chairman Judge the increase “relativer mi-‘William Lyon. said the nor", and one that had been: “police presence“ was he1p~ held in Check “through the‘ ing to keep break and enters determined efforts 0f the and similar crimes down. police." . Chief Crawford said the Officers were now check- ing properties, going out on steady patrols and making increased arrests. The chief said, however, that he was concerned with the number of violent crimes that had taken place during the year. “I'm not prepared now to say why, but it is a fact," Chief Crawford said. Chairman of the redistri- bution commission was On- tario Supreme Court Justice J. L. Wilson. Members were Roderick Lewis. QC, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly and Chief Ontario Election Officer; Professor Walter Tarnopolsky, York Univer- sity Academic Vice-Presi- dent and Canada Represent- ation Commissioner Nelson Castonguay. Markham, Vaughan and Richmond Hill Towns are to become a new federal riding called Markham - Vaughan with a population of 84,941. Population trends and the changing pattern of the eleor toral map indicate Markham and Richmond Hill town's will probably have to form a federal riding 10 years from now. In 1982 Vaughan appears likely to be joined to areas to the west or north, probably the new riding of Simcoe South. This would put residents of Thornhill in the same riding as those of Wasaga Beach as King City residents are to be now. all things Charity" Federal Redistribution Proposal Violent Wrench To Our Old York Crime In York Up 1.9% Chief Says By HAL BLAINE A violent wrench is given to this York Region area by the recent redistribution proposals of the independent Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario. The decennary report made public December 27 moots an end to a long and important historical tradition, an end to community associa- tions previously existing in federal and provincial elections, and an end to major municipal county-level boundary lines hitherto largely respected during the drawing of federal constituencies. The commission’s propos- simple picture, I must conclude that capital punishment is not a deterrent to murder. Numer- ous studies of murder statistics indicate that most murders are committed in passion and arise from situations in which alcohol or other drugs are used exces- sively. There. most persons who commit a murder are not thinking of the consequences and the fact that consequences are not in their mind negates the deterrent effect of capital punishment. This is difficult for people such as ourselves to grasp, for we all try hard to think about the consequences of our actions. But this is not the case with murderers, as studies conclusively demonstrate. Nevertheless. one might reply. “If we brought back capital punishment wouldn’t that force potential murderers to be aware of the consequences. After all. murder rates have risen since we suspended capital punish- ment". Some states in the 15.8. have abolished capital punish- ment. No appreciable rise in their murder rate has resulted. States like Maine. Rhode Island. Michigan, Minnesota and Wis- consin show the same and, in some cases lower. murder rates than neighbouring states. The following countries have abol- HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 Chief Crawford said the slight increase in crime could be attributed to “every member of the force work- ing very hard." ed new riding of Simcoe South will combine the York Region Township of King with the southwestern part of Simcoe County to create a voting area of 69,953 peo- pie. Board Chairman Judge William Lyon. said the “police presence" was help- ing to keep break and enters and similar crimes down. The new York Simcoe Federal Riding is to include the Simcoe County municip- alities of Bradford Town and West Gwillimbury Township with the York Re- gion municipalities of Georâ€" gina Township, East Gwill- imbury Township, Aurora Town, Newmarket Town and Whitchurch-Stouffville Town. The report also lists for in- clusion in York Simcoe the non-existent North Gwillim- bury Township t‘hat is now part of Georgina, an appar- ent mistake. York Simcoe Riding would have a popu- lation of 74.928. .mmm\mmuumuumunmuuml\muuumumunmumuu The commission appears to have used its freedom to vary riding populations 25% from the national target norm of 86.650 to create a sort of double standard for rural and metropolitan con- stitutuencies. The metropoli- tan average seems to be The meeting will show how the budget is built up from its starting point at the schools. to the area offices and finally to the board offices. In making the meeting public, the board is con- tinuing a practise it start- ed two years ago. Taxpayers in the Re- gion of York concerned about how their money will be spent for school purposes, will get a chance to see what hap- pens to it at the York County Board of Educa- tion offices in Aurora, February 7. Monday night, the board announced that its Feb- ruary budget meeting would be open to the pub- lic, starting at 8 pm. Public Invited Budget Night Similarly, we must recognize that despite the excellence of our legal system. mistakes can be made and the innocent found guilty. At the famous Sing Sing Prison in San Francisco, for example, a study showed more than 12 per cent of the inmates to have been sentenced in error. This very real possi- bility, that of executing an in- How about Canada? What about our own crime rate? The plain fact is that we do not know what effect the suspen- sion of capital punishment has had. We cannot tell if murder rates have so increased to prove, for the first time, that capital punishment does, in fact, deter. We have only three years of figures to go on, since statistical evidence is 18 months behind. These sketchy figures do show murder increasing, but at a slower rate than all other crimi- nal offenses, except assaults. We require another five years to test the validity of the capital punishment deterrence effect. ished the death penalty, in some cases many years ago: West Germany, Denmark, Switzer- land, Norway. Holland, Bel- gium, Portugal. Austria, Italy, Finland and several Latin American states. THREE-YEAR VETERAN Three years ago Ives was asked by a friend on the old Markham town council to serve on the smaller area board of that time. Then two years ago when the new regional town of Markham was organized from the for- mer town and township, he Chairman Ives said he has always had a great interest in books and enjoys doing what he can making more and better books more avail- able to more people. The library board job gives him a welcome change from his work at Connaught Labora- tories. NEW APPOINTEE Vice-Chairman Gray was newly appointed to the board this year for a three- year term by town council. The other town appointees are Schaefer and Ives. Pub- lic school board appointees are McClennan, Mudie and Cattanach. Separate school board appointees are Mallon and Duke. about 95,000 people per riding and the rural average about 75,000 people per rid- ing. Thus theindependent commission hasn't overcome the long debated rural-urban representational disparity it was supposed to eliminate. AMC G'r'émliui Javelin The other members of the 1973 board are as follows: Vice-Chairman Robert Gray of RR 1, Unionville; Secre- tary Mrs. Pat McClennan of Cedar Grove, RR 1. Mark- ham; David Mudie of 7 St. Andrews Court, Thpmhill; Mrs. Isabelle Cattanach, 4 Savannah Crescent, Mark- ham: Mrs. June Mallon of 53 Limcombe Drive, Thom- hill: Larry Duke of 17 Ma- ple Street, Markham; Mrs. Shirley Schaefer of 182 Grandview Avenue, Willowâ€" dale; and Mayor Anthony Roman. The first non-political re- distribution commission was established in 1964 and was headed by Ontario Supreme Court Justice E. A. Richard- son. Members were Professor Grant Crawford of Queen’s University in Kingston, On- tario Legislature Clerk Lew- is, and Canada Representa- tion Commissioner Caston- Ives Succeeds Thornhi‘ll Man Heads Markham library Board Dr. David Ives, 43, a re- search chemist and eight- year resident of 88 Drake- field Road, Markham, has been elected 1973 chairman of the nineâ€"member town library board. He succeeds Ken Bourrie of 42 Donal- bain Crescent, Thornhill. Markham Town includes the portions of Thomhill and Willowdiale postal areas east of Yonge Street and north of Steeles Avenue. 9144 YONGE ST. BAKER SALES & SERVICE Ambassador Matador 0n the other hand. citizens require the maximum possible amount of protection. This the government must provide. Therefore, I am interested in a proposal made to the House by two Liberal colleaguesâ€"J im Fleming (York West) and Mar- cel Prud’homme (Saint Denis). They have suggested that any- one convicted of capital murder must wait a mandatory 25 years before parole eligibility. I think this might allay fears that parole and leaves are setting free dangerous persons against whom society must be protected. As one MP stated, people are opposed to over permissiveness in general and they do not separate the question of capital punishment from leniency of parole. I think the amendment of Fleming and Prud‘homme would help clarify this distinc- tion. I have indicated quite frankly how I feel about this complicat- ed subject. I hope I have your respect. if not your agreement. I would be happy to send you some of the material upon which I based my judgement. nocent person, remains a prin- cipal reason for a further exten- sion of the capital punishment ban. guay. Thus ‘two of the present commission's members are serving for a second time. Before the 1964 commission carved it up, the federal rid- ing of York North included all of what is now York Re- gion from Highway 7 north to Lake Simcoe._York North in 1964 was then the complete northern portion of historic York County. It included lulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll King Township Council Opposes Federal Redis- tribution. See story on Page 5 this issue. lllllulllllllll“llllll“llllllll“lllllllllllll“lllllllllllllllllllllIll“!!! most, if not all, of the land area once represented in Parliament by two of the five or six most important figures in our nation's hisâ€" tory. William Lyon Macken- zie and his grandson W. L. Mackenzie King. of the estate and possiva the York Region Municipal Council if it chooses to be- come involved. NEED MUCH STUDY Thus the Gallanough be- quest is enough to pay about 10% of the cost of a simi- lar library if one of the same sort is found to be best suited to Thornhill with its exploding population. This will require a lot of study and work to get an accept- able plan. A native of England, he came to Canada from Lon- don with his wife in 1955 and they now have three children. He lived in Etobi- coke for five years before moving to Markham. The new boundaries be- come final unless changed (Continued on page 22) was invited to serve 'an ad- ditional three years. He was vice-chairman for two years. Commenting on the recent $200,000 Gallanough bequest to ’I‘hornhill for a library, Ives says the gift is at the same time a happy and com,- plicated matter. Investiga- tion of recent costs of li- braries shows the last li- brary built in the Metro area had a $1,000,000 build- ing and held about $1,000,- 000 worth of books. Involved will be the li- brary boards of both Mark- ham and Vaughan Towns, the successors to the Police Vil- lage of Thomhill. both the town councils, the executors PRICE 15¢ PER COPY Heads Library Board DR. DAVID IVES 889-1189