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OL. 97,. N0. 35. Back on June 4, 1885, Richmond Hill’s Young Canad- ians Lacrosse Team won the Western Division Champion- ship on the local fair ground. Their opponents were from Brampton and the Young Canadians won the championship in three straight games â€" one in 15 minutes, one in 35 minutes and one in nine minutes. Members of the team included: J. McConaghy, goal; W. Wiley, point; W. Mager, coverpoint; T. Young, D. Pugsley, C. Skeele, defence field; F. Powell, centre; J. Piper, M. Palmer, A. Pugsley, home; S. S. Searle and G. Savage, inside home; Mr. Wilson, field captain: were SavagefA. Pugsley and Piper. “The Liberal" account of the game reported that it had rained all day and was still raining when play began at 3 pm and yet the grandstand was packed with ladies Councillor Kay feels the hope for a precedent setting beneficial experiment in joint develop- ment of community services is growing very dim. He fears the public school board may sell much of its lands there, wrecking the community plan. At the same time the highly beneficial. He say South Thornlhiull councillor the public board unilaterall: feels the school board has pulled out of the join left the rapidly filling Ger- schools-town committee las man Mills-New Leslie Street year. The public board wen area, a community the size its own way without consul of Unionville, without any ting the joint committee ant school facilities of its own at adopted plans at variance 0 least until 1975. Area stu- the overall master plan an dents are being crowded into proved by the joint commll portables attached to exist- tee. ing schools in the older part SLAMS TRUSTEE SIM of South Thornhill. Markham Councillor Kn The York County Board of Education is unilaterally responsible for smashing the co-ord- inated local government plan for integration at German Mills in Thornhill of separate and public school facilities, plus municipal parks and recrea- tion, South Thornhill’s Markham Town Ward 1 Councillor Gary Kay of 86 Aberfeldy Crescent, German Mills, charged in an interview with this newspaper last week. The result is that a whole generation from the commu- nity faces -the prospect of proceeding through all its school years in makeshift. portable facilities, he says. BLAMES PUBLIC BOARD Councillor Kay blames the whole public school board (the York County Board of Education) for “letting down" the Town of Markham and the York County Roman Catholic Separate School Board on the joint integra- tion of local government fa- cilities. an aim all rthree bodies and most of rthe citi- zens had agreed would be G. RAWE. l\ll\\lll\\ll\\l“lll\\|llllnlllm““Il1mm“lllll‘llll\ll\\lll\l\ll\\lll Bombs Away It was closing time for the Bank of Nova Scotla, 43 Yonge Street South, practically as soon as it opened for business Mon- day morning. The bank was cleared and police made a thor- ough check but failed to uncover anything. The matter is still under inves- Police said the bank re ceived a call from an In- onymous male about 10 am, saying a bomb had been placed in the bank and would be going off at 10:30. -. Thornhill’s Kay Blasts School Board écoring on that? gloriops_day for the Young Canadians Dec, 0 I885 Sta/warts Were lacrosse Champions highly beneficial. He says the public board unilaterally pulled out of the joint schools-town committee last year. The public board went its own way without consul- ting the joint committee and adopted plans at variance to the overall master plan ap- proved lyy the joint commit- tee. SLAMS TRUSTEE SIM Markham Councillor Kay particularly slammed Marl-:- ham's Public School Trustee Donald Sim of 216 Church Street, Old Markham Vil- lage, for being completely irresponsible in blaming the town council for the Ger- man Mills area fiasco. “For Don Sim to make the statements he did is comple- tely irresponsible. They‘ aren't home out by the facts. He was looking for a scape- goat because the public school board failed to fulfil its res- ponsibility to provide school facilities for South Thom- hill residents," said Kay. In a report in this news- paper of a public school board meeting late last month. Trustee Sim was quoted as saying the attitude of Markham Town Council where the Bayview Summit Subdivision (German Mills- New Leslie Street-Wycliffe Old Town) in Thornhill was concerned was “one of the gremt disappointments I've had in 1973." “YOUNG CANAfiiANs,” 1110mm) HILL, ONT Sim said 'he'd attended many meetings with Mark- ham Town Council trying to get it to put in a swimming pool, arena and ball park in conjunction with the Bayâ€" view Summit School com~ plex site bounded by Simon- ton Boulevard. New Leslie Street and German Mills E c Library, ' a 1 4.; WESTERN DISTRICT CHAMPIONS. 1885. SIM RAPS TOWN Sim alleged Markham Council’s only concern was to put in day care centres as encouraged by provincial le- gislation. He said the school board is holding up the school until it can get a decision from Markham on the co-operative use of land. Councillor Kay was ob- viously incensed over tthe Sim statements and the re- ported public school board position as he reviewed the situation with a reporter. “When I first took my seat on council last year I wasn't made aware there was a joint study committee for the Leslie East (German Mills) anea (of South 'Dhorn- hill),” said Ray. He explained the joint plan was to involve a large block of land in the centre of the German Mills commu- nity. The lands are owned primarily by the public school board, but some are owned 'by the separate school board and a little by the municipality. The public school board lands were acquired for an elementary sabool and high sdhool. There are also some lands owned on the east side of New Leslie Street. The large parcel of public land covers more than 30 acres at the north-east corn- er of Simonston Boulevard COUNCILLOR KAY Blames School Board RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1974 and the fences surrounding the playing field were covered with members of the male sex, but the players found the ground slippery and treacherous. The Richmond Hill Cornet Band was in attendance and played during play stoppages. mm I'l‘vhve abdueflpietu'r'eptake‘n to commeinorate ‘the’great win, was found in Maple Leaf Gardens, and through Doug Moore was presented to Richmond Hill represented by Mayor William Lazen-by. n.‘ Since only 11 players were named in the report of the championship game and the picture contains 12 players and four civilians “The Liberal” and members of council would be most happy if any of our readers could identify any or all of those appearing in the picture with full first names if possible. In an earlier story three other players, Powell, Derry and Brown are named and in another story Mr. Redditt is reported as attending the national lacrosse convention. “in Essentials Unity; in Non-Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity" and New Leslie Street. It includes one acre of Mark- ham Towu land, 10 acres of separate school board land, and the rest is owned by the public school board. LOCAL EXPERIMENT “Because the block is all in public ownership, the idea from the outset was for the three local government bo- dies to jointly plan the site for the benefit of the whole area." said Kay. “1 think of it as an experiment in co- TRUSTEE SIM Blames Markham Council uwlw; auyuug sidents of the area “ 't that moment there were 10 portables (class- rooms) at the Bayview Fair. ways Public School and all the children from New Les- 1-ie Street (German Mills Community) were being transported by bus to Bay- view Fairways. The Bayview Fairways people are com- plaining bitterly and in my opinion have a good reason to complain because their school was planned on the (one room) open plan. Now they see their children (Continued on Page 7) an.» uvu w; . v “We weren't quite at the 300 target. but were very close to it.” said Telephone Committee Chairman Mrs. Marion l-lohener of Dun- can Road. “Many thanks are due to everyone who made the clinic a suc- cess. We’re hoping to hit the 300 target at the next clinic in the fourth week in May." The largest number of units collected previously here at a single clinic was 238 in May of last year. while the largest number of previous donors was 270 in August of 1972. soon as (possvme, sauu. iur. Allen. “I know arbitration isn't the best solution, but we must try. The main pur- pose is to get the teachers back at once. “The full panel of items in dispute will be arbitra- ted," Mr. Allen said. In making his suggestion, Mr. Cnibar said [he wasn't negating the work of the negotiating committee, but after 10 months. a minor change might bring about an end to the impasse. “It has to be more than just a call to go back (with the same people to talk Sean. A]. Inc; AK. ynvr they'll call us." He said the board had to offer the teachers something new. or else soften its po- sition on some points of dfi- ference. Trustee Marvin Hunter said the board, at a special SiX-‘hOUI‘ meeting the day before. had “beat the motion out" and it should be presen- ted Trustee Warren Bailie of Richmond Hill, agreed. “We should proceed and hope for the best." he said. Mr. Allen’s motion was carried. d-lililllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllull“ll\lllllllllllllllillilllWill“lllllllll“lllllllllllllllllllllllI“llllll“\llllll“lllllllllllllllllllllll\lllllllllllllllll\“llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllill“\lllllll“\llll“lllllllllllll“ll“lill““llmill\llllllllumllllllllll\lllillmilillllllllllll\llllllillllllllllllllll[llll“ll“\lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllll4‘ By JIM IRVING York Region may be a long way from the sea, but it’s start- ing to get its sea legs â€" at least its underwater ones in a most convincing fashion. First it was the filmmakers at Kleinburg, who built an ex- otic “undersea” machine for use in the movie. “The Neptune Factor", with Ernest Borgnine and Yvette Mimieux. That was like something out of a science fiction comic book, sleek and powerful and right at home with all the other un- derwater denizens once it de- cided to stray into their midst. And, of course, it wasn't real. Now, however, there's an- other sleek and powerful sub- mersible being constructed in the area; and as they say in a certain soft drink ad: it's the real thing. It’s not for any movie. either. In this case, it’s being con- $3,000,000 Submarine Includes Batteries operation. A joint committee of the three local govern- ment bodies was set up. Pub- lic School Board Architect Ross King was commissioned to do a school ‘plan study for all three authorities. “The flirst meeting I at- tended was in February or March of 1973. We spent a good deal of time I ie'wing reports. At that tim' it was apparent [the most critical item to be dealt with and dispmed of was the agree- ment on Siting of the school buildings. and particularly the public (elementary) school already needed by re- sidents of the area PHOTOGRAPHER structed for various oil com- panies and the federal gov- ernment, who are anxious to see if there's anything at the bottom of the sea besides all those fish and sunken pirate cargo. Putting it in order for them is Access, a manufacturing and service company, which does under-ice and geological work, and Dominion Lngineering and Pipe Limited, both of Maple. Dominion will construct the hull, while Access, which designed the submarine, will do the outfitting and all other appointments. The submarine, when com- pleted in April, 1975, will be shipped to the Arctic. where it will be used to carry out under- ice seismic surveys for oil ex- ploration. It seems that the continental shelf area is covered with ice and the ice cap distorts read- ings. Therefore, a submarine \\l\\l\\l\\\\l\\\\l\\l“\ll“\lllll\l\\l\l\\l\\\\\\“\l\\“\l\“l\l\\ll\\\\“\\l Seeks Suggestions Development Days There is some possibil- ity a major community housing project for 30,000 people may be on the draw- ing boards at Queen’s Park for a large farm site on Steeles Avenue betWeen Concessions 7 and 8 in Markham Town, “The Lib- eral” has learned from a usually reliable source. It is possible some an- nouncement could be forthcoming Friday at an expected news conference of Ontario’s new Housing Minister Sidney Handle- man as the province at- tempts to solve a mount- ing housing crisis shortage. Such a plan would sud- denly almost double the Markham Town popula- tlon in a municipality al- ready suffering from a decade of exploding growth. The announcement, if it comes. is expected to in- voke considerable concern in the town where local community services are already heavily loaded. A Thornhill women would like to see York County pa~ rents write to the school superintendents in their areas with suggestions for teachers on their professio- nal development dayLs, Mrs. Marion Hohener, 216 Duncan Road, said that a re- cent article i-n the York County Boa-rd of Education publication, “Contact,” had first put forth the idea that parents contribute their ideas. Mrs. Hohener said she had subsequently read of abuses of the professional days pro- gram in North York, where teachers went skiing and held political meetings, and she was concerned lest the same thing [happen here. She said new teaching techniques could be studied and exchanges with teachers in different cities could be made. 30,000 More For M arkhamf She said There was so much for children to learn and so little time to cover it all, that she hoped the teachers would take advant- age of the professional de- velopment days to abosrb all they could that would make both their teaching jobs easier and assist in the progress of their students. . Avrea superintendents can be contacted at the area of- fices, 59, Yonge Street North in Richmond Hill. iii“\li“lll“lmill“lllli“Willi“li“Illl“\lii“\lilillllllliiilliill“ Near Miss At Blood Clinic A record high number of blood donors attended the Richmond Hill Red Cross blood donor clinic Thursday of last week at St. Mary’s Roman Cath- olic Church Hall. Local Red Cross committee work- ers are extremely pleased by the attendance. But they’re just a smidgen short of jubilant. That’s just how far short they were from reaching their target of 300 donors. Altogether 295 donors turned out and 277 units of blood were collected. A few couldn’t donate be- cause of colds. HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICTVSINCE 1878 is needed that can be dropped through a hole in the ice at the base of the cap. where it will be taking soundings from a depth of 10,000 feet for three months. Well, not exactly for three months. That is, the sub it- self will stay, but its three-man crew will remain with it for only eight hours at a time. leaving through predetermined holes in the ice ‘at the end of their working shift and return- ing the next day. The name to be given to the submarine when it finally rolls down the ramps. is Narwall 11. That. according to Access pres- ident, Peter Berry, is a mis- spelt name for an underwater mammal, with a long snout. that lives in the Arctic. The underwater craft will be about 40 feet long. will cost some $3,000,000 for the first working model and will gper- Won't Negotiate PTR If not, the brief went on. the present trustee negoti- ating committee should be changed, and Trustees Craig By JIM IRVING Negotiating with teachers on the question of pupil-teacher ratio was something he as a mem- ber of York County Board of Education would never do, Trustee Ross Jolliffe of Vaughan, told a meeting of the board Monday night. Mr. Jolliffe made his comments in reply to a brief from WEB, (Watchers 'of Educational Bureaucracy) read by Toronto lawyer, Barry Swadron. .- .‘ ‘ - n 1.7””, Cribar, Newmarket; Norm Weller, Aurora; and Warren Ba-ilie, Richmond Hill; be named as replacements, with Ron Hall, acting education School Board, OS‘STF Dispute Each Other's Ratio Figures N" uunvu- One of the main points of the brief from WEB, which is made up of independent groups of citizens, was that it was “absolutely vital" that pupil-teacher ratio be negotiated. When asked at a press conference Monday as to why were was always a dis.- crepancy in pupil-teacher ratio figures released by York County Board of Edn- cation and the Ontario Se- condary School Teachers R- derartion, Vince Mathewson. chief negotiator for the OSSTF. said the trustees padded -tJhe figures by in- cluding people Who were not certified rteachers, but who assisted. in some other in- structional capacity, such as at Don Head Secondary School Mr. Mathewson said the York ratio was 18.5, while the teachers wanted a 17.4:1 ratio. the provincial average. He said, too, that in Fron- tenac County, which includes Kingston, where 71 percent of the budget is spent on classroom teachers, the ratio was 16.1. He said York spent only 57 percent of its operating bud- get on teachers' salaries. At a meeting in Richmond Hill Friday night, however. Trus- tee liougi'as' Allan said Cribar Asks For Change In School Board Negotiators Trustee Craig Cribar of Newmarket, at a meeting of York County Board of Edn- cation Monday night, res- ponded to a motion by Trus- tee Douglas Allen of Rich- mond Hill to press for vo- luntary arbitration with the striking York County secon- dary school teachers, with a suggestion of his own that the board make a change in the present trustee negotiat- ing committee. Mr. Allen’s motion would have had the two sides re- sume negotiations immediate- ly and then go to arbitration, if no agreement could be re- ached by February 27; re- turn to school for the teach- ers was set as March 1. “We hope that the teach- ers will respond to this as soon as possible," said Mr. Allen. “I know arbitration isn't the best solution, but we must try. The main pur- pose is to get the teachers back at once. In making his suggestion, Mr. Cnibar said {he wasn't negating the work of the negotiating committee, but Term Misleading eâ€" Jolliffe by MOTOROLA Q9 Make it your fist color TV YORK HOME TV 306 BAYVIEW PLAZA - ate on batteries Access. which has only been in business for a couple of years, built its first sub â€" Tud- lik â€"- Eskimo for loan or great northern diver â€" in 1972 for Ontario Place, and won a com- petition to get its present con- tract. When Narwall 11 is com- pleted â€" the final assembling will take place at Dominion Engineering. where Access also has its offices at present â€" it will be tested in the warm waters of Florida first, and then it's on to Great Slave Lake in the winter of 1975. So there you have it. If you want your own private submar- ine. you won‘t have far to go to get it, providing. of course, you're able to pay the going price for subsequent models, which Mr. Perry says will be about $1,000,000. Battéries included director, as consulting staff member. ‘ Pupil-teacher ratio was the most misleading term there was, Mr. J‘olliffe said. lit had nothing to do with what the delegation felt. and should be eliminated. board spent 66% percent on salaries Monday night, at a regular meeting of the board, the latter released its own se¢ of figures on the pupil-teacher rabio. The board safid that the York ratio as of September 30, 1973 was 17.9:1 and not 18.4 as claimed by OSSTF. Also, ‘with dropouts, fihe figure was 17.221 as of De- cember 31, 1973, while the secondary staffing com-ple- ment was 827.13. 'I‘he boa-rd said that. “the greatest discrepancy lies in the fact that OSSTF ‘has used an incorrect enrolment figure as the {basis of calcu- lations." For example, the OSS’I‘F listed York secondary enrol- ment as 15,821, instead of 14,824. The difference is ac- counted for by the 997 grade eight students "who, while accommodated in certain secondary schools, are in fact instructed by teachers whose time is a charge against the elementary staff complement and not the secondary com- plement.” In an interview afterwards, about the same i-tems," Mr‘ Cribar said. NOT ENOUGH TIME Trustee Margaret Cobum of King, although agreeing that Mr. Cribar had a “valid idea." felt there wasn't time -to train a new group to handle negotiations. Trustee Robert Houghton of Richmond Hill felt a couple of changes might be in order, while Trustee John MacKay of Markham felt that, if any changes were to be made they should be made on both sides. Trustee Don Sim of Mark- ham said he would be very much surprised if the teach- ers accepted the idea of vo- luntary arbitration. “The teachers know we are prepared to do that," he said. "If they're prepared to. they'll call us." He said the board had to offer the teachers something new. or else soften its po- sition on some points of dfi- ference. Trustee Marvin Hunter said the board, at a special SiX-‘hOUl' meeting the day before, had “beat the motion out" and it should be presen- Quésan See Sweetheart Peter Mr. Jolliffe said rthe board would lose control of its budget if it let the teachers decxde the ratio. He said it wasn't a matter of having so many teachers per pupil, but hiring a spe- cified number of teachers and having to stick to that number, no matter what kind of a drop in- students there might subsequently be. PRICE 15¢ PER COPY He said the OSSTF was anxious to have that aspect decided, as it gave them a certain number of guaran- teed members. MISLEADING TERM Mr. Jollifi'e said that pu- pilateacher ratio had moflfing to do with the number of ’students in a classroom, which is why the term was misleading. Pupil-teacher ratio was obtained by taking the total number of students - 14,824 divided by the num- ber of teachers â€" 827.13, which came out to 17.9. Having a pupil-teacher ratio of 17.9 or 18.5 as claimed by the OSSTF didn't prevent having some classes with 37 or more pupils in them. Mr. Jolliffe said that one OSSTF's charge that line board included teacher__alds BQYWES true. There were 13.2 teacher aids, but these only amounted to 6.8 fulltime teachers. 7 _‘ _ Trustee Douglas Allen of Richmond Hill said ’chat ne- gotiating the ratio would take away from the bond support in setting its own budget, and would give more power to the ministry. ."un _-l .1 rv'-~- -~' ~77 _ The brief from WEB said the board had mislead the public in numerous ways since the strike began: say. ing it would submit to vo- luntary arbitration, but didn't include pupil-teacher ratio; saying all teachers could be replaced, but it wasn't an easy matter to; saying night classes would be held for grades 12 and 13. which only stalled plans of OSS'I‘F to establish tutorial programs. .u,, . ,_A_1 r. v°- .....-. The brief urged «he board to reduce the size and power of the senior administration. The morale of the teachers was low and the board was urged to take immediate ac- tion. The brief also took a swipe at th e board's proposed “multi-mfillion" dollar (tenta- tive cost, $1,300,000) admi- nistration building, with me query: “Wouldn't it be a higher priority to get the teachers back?" Mrf-S’wz‘adi'on presented pe- titions with 3,800 signatures urging the board to end the dispute. - - --,,1re_. Said Trustee John MacKay of Markham: “It’s intimated because we make statements in facts, we're misleading mhe yuan- Trustee Jolliffe suggested WEB go before the 0551’]? with a similar kind of brief it its intenkion was to be Trustee Donald Sim of Markham said the board ac- cepted some responsibility for the low morale of the teachers and its main con- cern was to get them bac}: in the schools and restore men- mora 1e. um\mmlmm1mummuml\mum\u\\\m\\mn\ummm\\m See Letters Pages 2, 5 More Stories Page 12 public" It all depends on whose side you’re on. A telegram of support for the York County Board of Education has been sent from the Markham area, with the backing of 20 par- ents, while another one from Thornhlll, backed by 16 parents, has been sent of! in support of the teachers. Margaret Lucas. who help- ed organize the first tele- gram, said it was to urge the board “not to be intimidat- ed by unjustified demands of the teachers who we feel are most unreasonable and unrealistic." Specifically she pointed out the teachers' demand for tenure and agreement on a pupil-teacher ratio at the 1972-73 levels. The second telegram was organized by Mrs. A. H. Rich- mond, 22 Almond Avenue. Thornhill. and has been sent to the board. the Ministry of Education and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation. Mrs. Richmond said she had called 14 parents in the area. including one in Rich- mond Hill. asking for their support and hadn't been re- fused by one of them. She said the teachers work- ed under appalling condi- tions. These included poor electrical switches in the school gym. The telegram was also signed by her husband, Dr. A. H. Richmond. 2 Telegrams 884-4165