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Historic manse may be wrecked The authority is inâ€" terested in having such a building but doesn’t see any way to having the funds or ability to do anything about it at least for 10 years. That isn’t soon enough for the Presbyterian Church, said Fayle. Unusual construction The building is of unusual plankâ€"on-plank Mr. Gibson was a founder and retired viceâ€"president of Gibson Danforth Radio Ltd. He was instrumental in forming the first radio and appliance dealers association in Toronto. He lived in Langstaff for a number of years and for the last eight on Riverside Drive in Thomhill. The manse, north of Major Mackenzie Dr. is more than 140 years old and only one building in the town is older, Chairman David Faer of the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee told town council Chairman F'ayle said the church favors a new building on a site further back from the street. The manse would have to be renovated inside for offices and a boardroom at town, community or other public expense if it is to be saved in its present vicinity. Move possible An alternative would be for it to be moved to the Metro Conservation Authority’s Pioneer Village on Steeles Ave. RICHMOND HILL â€" The town‘s ar- chitecturally interesting and oldest Yonge St. building, the old Presbyterian manse, is in danger of being torn down. M a r k h a m f i r e department attended. Hill hostage drama After an exchange of words, he left only to return later with a shotgun. He held the woman at gunpoint and when a friend came to visit, held him as a hostage, also. He was an instigator of the Thornhill Lions Club annual auction and involved in the byilding of the Thomhill Com- munity Centré The building was owned by Thomas Heinz, RR. 1, Unionville. THORNHILL â€" Thomas Gibson, 72, a well known resident of Thornhill, died Su_n_da): gt York CentralAI-Iospigal. AURORA â€" Damage was estimated at $75,000 in a fire in a building at 31 Yonge St., Feb. 23, about Thomas Gibson dies According to police, it all began when a man appeared at a Zelda Cres. ad- dress to confront his wife and her common-law husband. $75,000 blaze AURORA â€" There’s a change in management at the Kinney shoe plant in Aurora, and it looks as if they’re off on the right foot. RICHMOND HILL â€" Richmond Hill had its own hostage drama last week. The plant, which was bought from the Sisman Shoe family heirs in 1967, not only has a change of personnel at the top, but is back bearing the Sisman name as Sisman’s of Canada Ltd. $74 million school budget challenged Last November, however, it didn’t look as if it was going to bear anybody’s name. Notice had been given to its 110 employees. The' plant, with its manufacturing operation, was being phased out in two month’s time. MP interested That’s when the change started to come about. According to Ted Rowe, son of former Richmond Hill Councillor Gordon AURORA â€" A motion by Trustees Don Cameron of Vaughan and John Denison of East Gwillimbury, to approve a $74,100,000 budget at Monday night’s meeting of York County board of education has since been c h a l l e n g e d b y Markham’s Bob McMonagle. New local style for Aurora shoe plant In a press release By Jim Irving By Jim Irving construction Keeping it in active use at its location is im- portant to the character of the townscape if the town is interested in preserving the Yonge St. character, Faer said. “The budget meeting has been almost totally devoted to staff presentation, leaving inadequate time to question the large in- issued the next day, McMonagle said the motion to approve “reflects, in my opinion, the way the majority of trustees have been ‘flimflammed’ by the budget presentation. Rail Passenger Service between _ Toronto-Barrie Regional Councillor For further information please contact VIA CN Passenger Sales Offices Train 169 1715 1728 1747 1754 Schedule Maple King Aurora Newmarket Bradford Lefroy Barrie Fares to and from Toronto and St. Clair Ave. NOTE: Trains will not operate Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. 811 Liked golf An ardent golfer, he belonged to the Thomhill Country Club at Port Bolster. He is survived by his wife, the former Hilda Wood, daughters Mrs. Ronald (Ruth) Taylor of Richmond Hill, Mrs. Stewart (Joyce) Fisher of Oakville and sons, Bob of Markham and Rusty of Thornhill, and eight grandchildren. Distant management In fact, the company readily ad- mitted it had been trying to manage the operation from its offices in New York, when approached with an offer to buy, Rowe said. Kinney' had one-quarter million dollars in stock; that’s what was killing them, Rowe said. _ From there Stevens turned to Rowe who has acted as his campaign manager. It was Stevens’ contention Rowe “might be able to pull it off.” Rowe said that, in a meeting with three men from the plant, all cited mismanagement. 38, of Keswick He is also survived by a brother, Arthur, of Thomhill. There was a private, family service Tuesday with burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Rowe, it was Sinclair Stevens, MP for York Simcoe, who decided to look into the matter. He checked with the plant in Aurora and the employees there, who told him that, “with proper management”, the plant could be saved. The two, however, managed to get away and called police. The gunman tried to retake the woman as hostage, but she fled once more, police said. Facing charges Bf having a weapon dangerous to the public peace and ppinting a fi‘rgarmbis William Phillips, The gunman was about to drive way when he was stopped by Constable Karl Mgler of York Regional Police. Ar. $1.10 Single Fare 1.70 Lois Hancey said there would be something to be said for moving the building to Pioneer Village where many thousands of people could enoy it. The problem is to be studied. Surplus money McMonagle said that, under the “urging” of former Trustee Joy Horton of East Gwillimbury, the 1976 budget request was trimmed from $72 million to $68 million. Even with Afpresént, the board is considering a budget of $74,359,872. crease, or seriously negotiate a responsible budget figuret” he sa_id. Toronto Union St. Clair Ave. Maple King Aurora Newmarket Bradford Lefroy Barrie $ 8.30 10.80 12.00 15.30 19.40 23.10 10 Ride $32.00 “It was very cmoperative and wanted someone to continue on in the plant.” Rowe said 26 of 50 employees were offered a chance to buy into the business and signed a pledge that they would each put in $1,090: However, Ehe union objected and the offer had to be withdrawn, Rowe said. “But it showed me they were here to stay.” He said he hoped that eventually the company may be opened up to them with some kind of share program being instituted. Worker support Rowe said some employees have already taken a drop in salary. Other salaries, which were “away out of line”, have been reâ€"adjusted, so that they are more equal. Another thing' that has been re- adjusted are the number of lines of Correction RICHVALE - Due to a typographical error on the front page of the Rich- mond Hill Edition last week, the amount of money raised in the Richâ€" vale Lions Majorette Corps Skate-a-thon was incorrectly reported. The ainouht raised actually was $1,000. The Liberal regrets this error. 41.00 He was concerned that the children’s education should not be reduced as a result, but he felt the cost of administering the system was “out of step” with boards of com- parable size. McMonagle said he and Trustee Norm Weller of Aurora would propose a motion at the next budget meeting, Thursday, March 3, that a “total expenditure of $72 million, with extensive cuts being made to proposed increased ex- penditure in ad- ministrative, consultative and promotional func- tions.” At Monday night’s meeting, Cameron made his motion following a brief discussion by the board on the budget. Most of the time was taken up by Director Sam Chap- man defending staff’s approach to the draft budget. Monthly Flash Card 74.00 Budget statement Referring to a typed statement, copies of which were released to the press, Chapman said staff sought to put together a proposed budget according to the board‘s directions. that cut of $4 million, the board ended up with a surplus. Staff had never looked at the budget as something to be negotiated between it and the board, where staff asked for more than was required “in the knowledge that the board would then proceed to cut it back to what was needed in the first place.” “If, in fact, there is some reason, political or otherwise, for this kind of ritual to be danced, then it is your staff, not Dr. VIII Train 168 Ar. 0820 0805 0746 0739 0729 0722 071 1 0700 Lv. 0645 Student Monthly Flash Card $17.00 18.00 24.00 31 .00 Denison (Trustee John Denison of East Gwillimbury) who have been naive in not per- ceiving that this need existed,” Chapman said in his statement. He was referring to remarks by Denison at a spending authority to exercise it responsibly,” Chapman said. Speaking to the meeting later on, Chapman said that, by using the reserve, they could lower the proposed mill rate in- crease from 10.2 to 7.2. He was referring to remarks by Denison at a previous meeting, which expressed some concern on that point. Speaking to the matter of surpluses, he said that, for two years in a row the board asked that discretionary accounts be “virtually frozen in order to generate the largest surplus possible.” Prudent punished “In retrospect the 1975 motion was wise,” he said. Because of increased costs in 1976 and little increase in grants, it was necessary to contain the 1976 mill rate. However, he thought the 1976 motion was in error, because, while it had increased the surplus, “it has had the effect of punishing those who have administered their funds most prudently. “This is not Van attitude we can continue to show if we expect thgse who have STARTS AT 10 AM WED. MARCH 2ND OUR 25% OFF ENTIRE NOBLEI'ON NOBLETON GENERAL STORE shoes. These lines have now been reduced to safety footwear, which in- cludes work boots and fancy-dress oxfords. The latter are used by management when on the job in various factories. One of their specialties in that line is a “monstrous” boot, which will take a 25,000-volt charge. Police boots The company has already completed 6,000 pairs of boots for Metro police, with written orders for 15,000 more. He said the company is anticipating 540 to 590 work boots a day and “won’t hale troubl_e_ hittin_g__700. " “They (Kinney) were forever fighting style changes,” Rowe said. “That’s why we got into the safety shoe business." Viceâ€"president of'the new company is another Rowe, 39-year-veteran Fred Rowe. No relation to Ted, he is vice- CONSISTING OF: Approximately $60,000.00 complete retail inventory of - Paint, Plumbing and Electrical Supplies 0 Tools and Hardware 0 Home Hardware and Appliances, Giftware, Amerock 0 Lawn, Garden and Pool Supplies 0 Hunting, Camping and Sporting Goods, Rifles, Archery, Fishing Equipment, Outdoor Clothing, Etc. 0 Including: All Store Shelving, Display Cases, Furnishings and Equipment, Cash Register, Paint Mixer, Glass and Key Cutters, Window Shade Machine, 2 Storage Vans, Etc. 0 EVERYTHING MUST BE SOLD 1n presenting his motion to reduce the budget from $74,359,872 to $74,100,000, Trustee Cameron said he had studied it carefully and was “satisfied basically it is a sound budget." Use of reserve If the board approved it, they could then discuss methods of financing it, and investigate the possibility of using some of the reserve. The suggested cut, along with the reserve, would bring the mill rate ANNOUNCEMENT GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA WENDYL N. GIRARD Guaranty Trust Company of Canada is pleased to announâ€" ce the appointment of Mr. Wendyl N. Girard to the posi- tion of Manager of our Richâ€" mond Hill Branch. Mr. Girard joined Guaranty Trust Company in October, 1974, as Loan Officer at our 2488 Yonge Street Branch in Toronto; was appointed Loan Officer of our Richmond Hill Branch in December, 1974, and became Manager of our Stouffville Branch in Septem- ber, 1975. He replaces Mr, Glen Paton who has been appointed to the position of‘ Assistant Manager of our Ottawa, Bank Street Branch. HIGHWAY 27 AND KING SIDE RD. down to 71/2 per cent, he said. Peter Hubert, who was with the former company for 13 years, is vice- president of production. Three-year man Ralph Kunitzky, is secretary. Starting day Monday, the new executive and staff saw the operation officially come into business, with the first shoes rolling off the line. A host of dignitaries were invited. Among these were Aurora Mayor Gecrge Timpson. York Region Chairman Garfield Wright, and Claude Bennett, minister of industry and tourism. It was an impressive array of shoes they saw, but one shoe that was missing was the 071d, Sisman Scamper. The Adidas of its day, as Rowe . . described it, the Sisman Scamper was WI“ 1t eyer make a comebBCk'? once the most popular summer shoe of Rowe didn’t know: But he’s pI‘Etty all for young boys throughout Canada. sure the company W111- Trustee McMonagle said he found the idea “totally unacceptable." The cut was small, “especially when we haven’t looked at many president of sales * SHOP'N SAVE AT ' , WHITE SUGAR 232%69‘; â€"_â€"__________..____‘ AVAILABLE'ON’LY'AT"""'"" ALLENCOURT BayVIew & Markham Rd., Richmond Hill we Resgnvgmgmgm TO LlMITfiQUANTITIES. @fleflhlxes {V/VALL BRAND§â€"REG.OR KING SIZE CIGARETTES gs CHICKEN, LIVER OR BEEF PEP DOG FOOD BRIM DECAFFENATED INSTANT COFFEE CAMPBELL’S CHICKEN NOODLE areas in which we can reduce.” Richmond Hill’s Eric Baker tried to suggest an amendment to the motion, which would bring the budget down to $73 million. THE LIBERAL. Wednesday. March 2, 1977 â€" STOCK AM PLE FREE PARKING Ted Rowe . . . filling Kinney’s old shoes 25 OZ TIN 2 OZ. JAR 10 OZ. TIN CARTON OF 200 However, time ran out on him, the board refusing to go past the 11 o’clock deadline it had set for: the meeting. Baker’s moti'on will be first on the agenda at the next meeting 21¢ 629