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A happy birthday is wished for Gus Amodeo on his twentieth October 2. Six of his friends called to ex- tend best wishes. Mrs. Jessie MacRae and son Charlie are in Richmond Hill visiting her son Lindsay and his wife Sadie. They also visited a nephew Hughie MacRae and family and paid a visit to yours truly. Mrs. MacRae comes from Maclntyre‘s Lake in Nova Scotia and will be flying home soon. Hope she has a pleasant visit and safe journey home. Crystal szarek is confined to her home under the doctor‘s care. We wish her a speedy recovery. Birthdays it looked beautiful from inside, it was a surprise to me and to a whole lot of others, I imagine. The leaves are so beautiful just now I just had to try to capture the beauty on film to bring us pleasure on snowy, blowy winter days. With the colorful trees and the crisp air, it‘s really lovely along the concession roads at present. Community Notes October 9. novice. 6 to 7.10 pm; bantam. 7.10 to 8.20 pm; midget. 8.20 to 9.30 pm. GENERAL MEETING There will alsa be a general meeting of the Oak Ridges Minor Hockey Association this Sunday from 1 to 4 pm at the Bond October 8: atoms will register from 7 to 8.10 pm; peewee, 8.10 to 9.20 pm; juvenile, 9.20 to 10.30 pm. Neighborhood Notes Who could have guessed it? Snow so early! Although SUN LIFE OF CANADA Any Oak Ridges youngsters still wishing to register for hockey this season may do so one half hour before town representative team tryouts October 8 and 9. > “" while you also guarantee yourself a m monthly, retirement income for life. Mortelliti > Ask me for detailsâ€"I’m with Sun Life of Canada. Toronto High Park Branch - 1183 Finch Ave. West Suite 601, Downsview, Ontario - Tel.: 630-2661 Richmond Hill - 884-5092 Late registration Oak Ridges hockey with host Bill Pranka rd and recording artisOs Marie Bryages and Gwen Prankard Huge stock of instruments and music. Bank ternls, open day and evening. See us. you will be glad you did and take advantage of our low overhead. Shop around. compare. then come and visit us. where you can again compare the pros and cons of 6 different organ franchises. Right in our showroom. Our 28th Christmas Sale is now on. Conn. Lowrey. Wurlitzer. Farfisa. Sclina. Ace-Tone Organs. also Pianos and Chord Organs. at some real genuine savings. 10 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1974 Watch Every Sunday 12:30 pm. "THE 31'.” MASTERS wet; TOUCH" cfiELWnZI LANGSTAFF NEWS Correspondent: Mrs. Ella Richard Telephone 889-4319 895-631 1 ORGANS and PIANOS Straight East of Newmarket. Ont 0N INCOME TAX REGISTERED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN U? to $4,000 a year may be deduct. ib e for income tax purposes from your income if you Invest it in a DON MILLS ROAD Plus â€" Special Guests who tell a! amazing Miracles EST. 1947 The Maple Pentecostal Church has service every Sunday afternoon at 2 pm in the Masonic Hall on Keele Street. There is always a good service with good gospel music. For more information call Alton Dudley at 767-7973 The UCW met last night (Tuesday) and made final plans for the turkey supper to be held October 30 from 4.30 to 8 pm. Everyone is welcome. Put the date on your calendar now for this wonderful meal. There will be all the turkey you can eat and every kind of home- made pie you can think of. McArthur Squigna. The Sunday school is at the same hour and has room for more children of all ages. The teachers have started a special very in- terfestlng program for this 'a l. season‘s Ontario cham- pionship Oak Ridges juveniles. has cast his lot with Vaughan Nationals in the Metro ‘8' hockey league. Coaches for this season‘s town representative teams are: juvenile Pete Jones; midget John James; bantam A] Bestard; peewee Don McQuarrie; atom Nelson Correspondent: Aulda Wood 25 Brightway Crescent Telephone 884-5095 Carrville Road United Church will have a thanksgiving service this Sunday morning, at the regular service time of 9.45. The congregation would like to welcome many new people in the area to their small friendly church. Lenneville. who played last year with the Oak Ridges midge‘ts is with Rich- mond Hill Rams of the Provincial Junior ‘A' loop; and Metcalfe was with last season's Ontario cham- pionship Oak Ridges The ORMHA executive would like to congratulate John Lenneville and Bill Metcalfe who moved up into junior hockey ranks this season. Lake Arena. All parents are welcome to attend. CARRVILLE on the Global Televisi "n Network Channel 22 Cable 3 HOVICG Fred Tomorrow (Thursday) the family, now with the second generation very much in- volved, will open its 12th store and it will be here in Hillcrest Mall, Yonge Street and Carrville Road in Rich- mond Hill. It is, says Arthur Gibson, chairman of the board, the largest family- owned appliance business in It was in 1923 that Harold, Arthur and Tom Gibson opened the first Danforth Radio Store at Dantoth and Woodbine Avenues in Toronto. The Gibson brothers were not born in York Region. but they like it and three of them live here. Now they are bringing their business, probably the largest of its kind in Canada, to our municipality. Local family’s Danforth Radio opening store at Hillcrest In the comfortable lounge of Thornhill Golf and Country Club. Arthur Now Arthur lives in Thornhill, as do Tom and Wilfred, the fourth Gibson brother, who joined the firm in 1933. He raised Hereford cattle. and the first polled Hereford cattle sale in Ontario took place on his farm. In 1954 his prize bull carried off top honors at both the CNE and the Rova] Winter Fair. THORNHILL RESIDENTS Arthur is a long-time resident of the region. In 1946 he bought Summit Farms on Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, in the community known then as Jefferson. Ontario â€"â€" prob largest in Canada probably the recalled the early days of Danlorth Radio for the benefit of a reporter from “The Liberal”. With capital of about $100 they manufactured everything they sold â€" crystal sets, one and two tube radios . . . There were no loudspeakers, just earphones for listening. and it was difficult to tune into a Toronto station. The city‘s first station. CFCA‘ owned by the Toronto Star. broadcast for only one to two hours a day, However radios were b e c o m i n g m o r e sophisticated. More stations were in operation in and around Metro and the company was expanding. EXPANSION SURGE After a period of dor- Harold Gibson was president of the company until his death in 1946. He was succeeded by brother Arthur. and when Arthur became chairman of the board in September, he in turn was succeeded by his The company grew with stereos. household ap- pliances. and a major ex- pansion in the early ’605 when it entered the fur- niture situations. mancy in the ‘305 came another surge of expansion. Danforth Radio was selling television sets before Canada had a television station. It‘s first installation was in a downtown tavern, then two demonstration sets were installed in the then new and magnificent Odeon Theatre on Carleton Street. son. Bill‘ a graduate of the University of Toronto in industrial engineering who received his earlier education at Richmond Hill High School and Thornhill Secondary. COMMUNITY SERVICE The senior Gibsons are a very active and busy group. Even though they have spent some 51 years in the business, they have still had time for community service. Arthur served as a trustee for the old Jefferson School Board. is a keen curler. a member of Richmond Hill Curling Club. and an avid sports fan. He is also past president of the Danforth Lions Club. Tom Gibson is one of the moving spirits in the Thornhill Lions Club. Vice- president and sales manager of the company until 1972, he now serves as a consultant. In Thornhill he was in- stigator of the Lions' very popular and profitable annual auction sale. He is now involved in planning the Lions‘ community centre activities. The Gibsons, including Wilfred ‘5 son Barry. and Arthur's younger son Hank. a graduate in business administration from Humber College. laughingly dub Danforth Radio as an “All In The Family" business. JOINED FAMILY There are others. however, who have been “ex officio“ members of the family for many years. For Yes. the Gibson “boys” believe in going to where the people are. and as things are going. the people they want to meet now are those in their own home territory. as manager of the new store at H.illcrest Mall. OPENING CEREMONY Richmond Hill‘s Mayor William Lazenby will of- ficiate at the opening at 1 pm. tomorrow, and customers will be eligible for some $4,000 worth of merchandise in an opening special draw. example, Fred Warburton. a vice presi- dent and an employee of the company since 1933. Then there is Ed Robin- son, superintendent of the 12 Danforth Radio stores, who is coming to Richmond Hill