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. _ Page 4 â€"â€" THE WESTON TIMES The cries of anguish that can be heard on all sides because of the failure of Prime Minister Pearson to eommit himself on a general electâ€" fon are the greatest compliment he has been paid since taking office. Mr. Pearson, after bumbling around for many months, is playing the game of politics. With typical â€" Weston thoroughâ€" ness, the owner of the land which the Town intends to improve as a centennial project was not consultâ€" ed before the application was made for grants from the Provincial and Federal governments. In the words of the Assistant Diâ€" rector of Operations for the Metroâ€" politan Toronto and Region Conserâ€" vation Authority it was foolish of the Town not to seek the approval of the Authority prior to submitting its plans for Provincial approval. Just imagine if the Town decided it wanted a roof garden on the top of the post office and did not ask the Federal Government to consent to such a proposal. Up to this point, Weston and its plans for the celebration of Conâ€" federation smacks of procrastination and ineptitude. Pictures of what may happen as the project wends its way toward completion by 1987 horrifies the mind. If the MTRCA or the two higher levels of government say no well, it‘s just so much water under the bridge. But if it is approved what sort of facilities are going to be proâ€" wided for picnicking beside the Humber sewerl Unlike some of his bushâ€"league eolleagues who rest their bones on the same side of the house as Mr. Pearson, he realizes that the next election will be no pushâ€"over for any party including the Liberals. He He must take advantage of ever political opportunity he can if he hopes to remain the Prime Minister of Canada. Not the least most important conâ€" sideration is the Progressive Conserâ€" vative Party meeting which is held &f propaganda for M anything hapâ€" Granted, time was short but whose fault was that? 0 The public can view three hours of countdown, watch the astronauts climb into their spaceâ€"craft and take off. If the machine blows up at igniâ€" tion time, or the whole rocket just falls over, it is there for the public to see. It is perhaps the mosft risky in nonâ€"election years. Nothing would give the Liberals a greater advantâ€" age than to stir up the annual ‘Weâ€" hateâ€"weâ€"love â€" Diefenbaker â€" frenzy. The only risk Mr. Pearson takes is The $13,900.000 fund â€" raising campaign for the Hospital for Sick Children which ran $5 millions short of its target will be revived again in September. « More important than the proverâ€" bial space race is now the space face. The Russians usually do it first but now the Americans do it in living eolor for everyone with a television set to view. In this aspect the Amerâ€" icans appear to be ahead. A member of the campaign comâ€" mittee and chairman of the Hospiâ€" tal‘s Board of Trustees, Charles L. Gundy is quoted in the daily press as saying the fund drive by York University had taken large amounts of money away from the hospital Editorials $65,000 Down The Humber Telephone CH 1 â€"5211 Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Ont., and for payment of postage in cash SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday V. J. McMillan, President and Publisher J. M. Jordan, General Manager John Macdonald, Editor Other countries $6.00 The Fund Raisers The Space Face That‘s Politics And if anything worthwhile is goâ€" ing to be placed in Cruickshank Park, will there be a day set aside each year when the townsâ€"people will gather in the park to pray to the rainâ€"gods not to come and wash away their $65,0007 Parks are marvellous things. Even passive parks are wonderful to take a stroll in. But sinking $65,000 into land that lies beside a polluted river which will flood again undoubtedly as it did on the night of Hurricane Hazel, seems a bit wasteful. Easy as it is to get rid of an amount such as $65,000 it would be hard to make the books balance if it was used for lawn cutting and a couple of picnic tables. Just what does the Town plan to do _ with Cruickshank â€" Park? paint all the stones blue so the assorted debris floating down the Humber shows up even more than now? or put up & beautiful eighteenth century pavilâ€" lion which the conservation Authoriâ€" ty will not allow? maybe even stone busts of the Town fathers which the Authority will not allow either beâ€" cause it will cause jams (it would be a bit of poetic justice, though). Perhaps as a beâ€"niceâ€"toâ€"theâ€"people project $1,000 could be spent to manicure the grass and build some picnic tables. that at one of these annual hooâ€"hahs, a large majority of the party is goâ€" ing to get behind one of the younger PC hopefuls and send the Liberals packing from the Ottawa scene. People are constantly saying the Prime Minister should decide and tell the people what he plans to do. The question is, why should he? Anyone treading on ground â€" as thin as he is, is not going to go aâ€" round telling all just to be considerâ€" ed ‘a good guy‘. He has found through painful experience that beâ€" ing ‘a good guy‘ is not a very good way to survive in the political cirâ€" cus. The consistent talk of the public not wanting an election is highly questionable. Although a general election might conceivably force a coalition government upon Canada this would not necessarily be such a bad thing. And perhaps the people of Canada would like to express their opinion about the country‘s poâ€" litical shambles. drive. He said he could not underâ€" stand people who preferred to give to a university in view of the large amount of instruction to nurses and doctors provided by the hospital. One gets the impression that Mr. Gundy feels people who give to a university fund rather than the Hosâ€" pital for Sick Children is some kind of psychopath. ‘ The Russians, it has been rumorâ€" ed have lost men in space or a man. This new spectator sport of watchâ€" ing space shots live and direct in liâ€" ving color from Kennedy Stadium in Florida has become popular and if the Russjans want to get ahead in the space face and not just the space race they will soon have to give it This is hardly the kind of talk that will spur a campaign on to reach its goal. pens to those men it would hurt the American image more than a person being killed on the streets of New York, every second of every day. AUGUST 27, 1915 Weston is not only doing its bit in assisting the Emâ€" pire to win the victory over German militarism by sendâ€" ing its quota of troops to fight in the trenches but it has also sent some 16 or 17 of its best men to share in the harvesting of Canada‘s wheat crop in the West. The results of the Weston High School at the Departâ€" mental examinations appearâ€" ed in last week‘s issue of the Times and Guide. On the whole it should be fairly satâ€" isfactory. The race is not alâ€" ways to the swift nor the battle to the strong. If one department showed a slight weakness in the results, it is but fair to say that our High School is not the only one in that respect. It should not form any basis for dissatis faction. Our best Collegiates and High Schools throughout the Province have shown disâ€" appointing results in the past. ‘These results have been due to causes which probably could not be forseen during the term, but which subseâ€" quently could be remedied. The other departments have ghown good results, and to be up fully to the average of the schools in â€" the â€" Province. Sometimes students want to have a good time and neglect that _ close â€" application _ to study which is so necessary to success. It is only whcrl they come face to face with failure that they realize they have not been true to themâ€" selves or their school. by John Macdonald What will happen to the historic â€" Town _ of _ Weston when an expected fall ses sion of the Ontario Legislatâ€" ure â€" meets to _ implement those parts of the Goldenâ€" berg Royal Commission Reâ€" port on Metropolitan Toronto which the Government deems advisable? The best bet is that it will become a neighborhond such as Islington, Willowdale or Don _ Mills, / although _ the chance of it ever being as well known as the latter are remote. It is even ‘possible under a new city or borough setâ€"up that the postal district of _ Weston _ may â€" disappear and a more sensible system of postal districts be put into being. However, this is a matter for the Federal authâ€" orities and will not be dealt with as quickly as the reorâ€" ganization of the municipal structure. â€" Shortly after Dr. _ Goldenâ€" berg‘s report was tabled in the â€" Legislature recommendâ€" ing the four city plan which included Weston in the proâ€" posed city of North York, Mayor C. W. Boddington anâ€" nounced that he was forming a committee to study the reâ€" port .with the intention . of 50 Years Ago ding a five or mX From Our Files Place Your Bets AUGUST 29, 1940 AUGUST 27, 1964 Stalled in the path of a MA_J'an‘;tolr) ;: the ‘\fifeslon 5 ; ; unicipal building will pro fost Con. Ne Bellv®y Sll | neably lose his JoLwithin the a 1929 model car, struck with next few days for refusing to terrific force, was smashed 10 _ join or support Local 775 of pieces close to the Malton _ the Canadian Union of Pubâ€" station late Friday night. Its :;c Employees. Cl'?E is the ; argaining agent for Westâ€" pwner and_ e cqmpnnxons on‘s 20 Works Department escaped without injury. For employees. Tony Van Manen ten minutes they had StTUE~ who has worked for the gled vainly to free the car _ Town since 1955 was approaâ€" from the tracks, but the _ ched Monday by a represénâ€" heavy train, bound from _ tative of the local. He was Chicago to Toronto, put & â€" asked to sign an affadavit quick end to their efforts. which stated his refusal to Then one of the men that become a member or pay the had been in the car raced to _ $2 a month dues. This, in efâ€" the nearest garage for a tow fect was Van Manen‘s last truck. chance to back down from The Fish and Chip store the stand he had taken. He sign on South Main Street is â€" Signed the affadavit. The Fish and Chip store sign on South Main Street is much improved and much more legible. Many folks arriving home from summer cottages these days, report that the fear of snow and frozen rads acâ€" counts for the quick return. Weston _ residents _ were much alarmed when the fire whistle blew _ on _ Sunday night, but learned later that the fire was over at Eaton‘s Farm on Brown‘s Line. The sky was lit up so that it lookâ€" ed as if the fire was less than a mile away. Were you one of the dutiâ€" ful parents who took their family to the Exhibition on Monday when the children held sway? Charles Naylor Tamblyn, well known apiarist of Woodâ€" bridge, died suddenly Monâ€" day when he was stricken with a heart attack while atâ€" tending his bees. city Metro. He intended Wesâ€" ton to become the core and nucleus of one of the addiâ€" tional cities. However this committee has not as yet met, even once. With the exception of the outright amalgamationists, most politicians in the Metro area tend toward a 5, 6 or more city Metro. The briefs and comments made by / the North York controllers and cotuncillors _ bear _ this _ out. And most of the heads of the smaller â€" municipalities | have similar ideas. Mayor Boddington is wary of joining with North York. "All the power is centered in Willowdale," he states, and with justification. Ward 1. Councillior John Booth agrees with the Westâ€" on Mayor and knows from hard experience just how difâ€" ficult it is to get situations rectified in the western part of the Township. Mayor Boddington suggesâ€" ted several different setâ€"ups that would preserve Weston as a municipal entity. One was the Western portion of North _ York _ coupled with Weston. This proposal would place this city at the bottom of the Metro barrel. Lacking 25 Years Ago 4 At the annual meeting of Humber â€" Hospital‘s nominatâ€" ing committee, George A. English, Percy E. Ault and Dr. John W. Hill were reâ€"elâ€" ected _ to â€" the _ Hospital‘s Board of Governors for a three yvear term. Robert Ferguson, Adminâ€" istrator of Humber Memor ial Hospital was recently elâ€" ected to the newly created Council of Regents of the American College of Hospital Administrators. a professionâ€" al society comprised of over 5.700 hospital administrators in the United States and Canâ€" ada. North Italian ulated tended Over 100 students, nearly all Italian, completed a six week course in English reâ€" cently, which was given at C. B. Parsons School in North York. Dr. M. Cappetta Italian Vice Consul, congratâ€" ulated these students who atâ€" tended the evening classes. both population to and assessment to and carry services, posed city would f! the Town of West floundering. Another alternative would be the joining of Weston, York Township and Forest Hill. This has been suggested by many politicians and if there is a definite move to establis _ more â€" cities _ than recommended by Dr. Goldenâ€" berg. this along with a proâ€" posal to join Leaside, East York and a portion of the city of Toronto may get top priority. But even under this suggestion, _ Weston _ would still not retain its position. York Township would be the exfsting â€" municipality under which the organization would be revamped. One _ Weston _ Councillor said â€" confidentially | that he was not sorry to see Weston disappear as a separate polâ€" itical entity. And 'allhnui(h being a councillor in Weston is a good lesson in municipal government, he said, it was more a matter of local pres tige than working as a poliâ€" tician. But no matter how much the politicians at the municiâ€" pal level ery and scream, the 1 Year Ago ation to represent ment to establish services, this proâ€" would flounder as of Weston is now destiny of Metro is in the hands of the members of the Ontario Legislature. And alâ€" though these members will do their task dilligently they have other tasks which will take a large portion of their time. Most significant are the two byâ€"elections being held. Weston‘s representative in the Ontario House, Donald MacDonald will ‘be seeking victory as a test of the Now Democratic Party‘s populariâ€" ty and strength in the provâ€" ince after a session which saw the NDP almost take tha role of official opposition in the house despite their inâ€" ferior numbers beside the Liberals. Mayor Boddington said it would be necessary to win Mr. MacDonald over to the Town‘s side in order to get the local views across in the Legislature. _ But Mr. Macâ€" Donald has already given evâ€" ery â€" indication | that he is more infavor of certain as pects of amaigamation than splitting _ the _ Metropolitan Toronto region up into more units than was recommended in the Royal Commission re port. What is more the governâ€" ment is not likely to toy around too much with a re All the world‘s an ashtray, And all the men and women merely smokers: They have their lighters and their matches; And one man in his time has many coughs, His lungs being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking after his first puff. Then the bigâ€"shot school boy, with his fags, Sneaking under a bridge on his way Unwillingly to school. And then the lover Sighing like furnace, with lipstick â€" scarred Cork tips smoking by the bed. Then a soldier Screaming for a butt with nicotine â€" parched Lungs, jealous in honor, sudden and quick to steal His tentâ€"mates pack ‘of twentyâ€"five, Even in the cannon‘s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly and stogie drooling from the mouth, ‘Teeth stained and fingers yellowed, Full of spittle and tobacco dregs, And so he puffs his part. The sixth stage shifts Into the lean and slipper‘d pantoloon, Pipe always going out and tobacco stale. His matches running out and lighter out of fuel For his trunk tank; and his big manly voice Yelling, ‘My Kingdom for a light, My Kingdom For a puff.‘ Last scene of all That ends this strange eventful history, Swallowing radium pills and under cobalt light: Sans teeth, sans lungs, sans taste, sans nicotine. And so it goes, with apologies to the most famous of English bards, Bill Chris Marlow Shakespeare. Everybody is trying to get everybody else to stop smoking as long as they don‘t have to stop themselves. It seems that by this point the recording assumes that you are breathing irregularly. He never says whether you should take prenatal classes in rhythmic breathing or whether you should just have a quick affair. ‘"Third, keep up fluid intake," the record says. This means you will also keep up fluid outgo. By the time you have trotted to the john fifty times in a day you will be too tired to smoke. "This is Smokers‘ Dial, message number nine," a pansy type recorded voice discloses. "What are you going to do when the seemingly irresitible urge to smoke comes along? It can often be trigzered by some small annoyance." (The urge to drink can be triggered by the same thing) "First, resist it by deciding I choose not to smoke. Second, begin rhythmic breathing." SMOKER‘S DIAL If you ever get the feeling that you might as well stop smoking pick up the blower and dial 633â€"6484. This is ‘Smokers‘ Dial‘. It was started in April and they are now up to message number nine. It goes like this: Fourth, why not silently ask for divine aid in restrict ing the craving. The infinite engineering and intelligence that went into designing us never intended us to take into our bodies such an array of poisons, tars and cancer inâ€" ducing agents." There he goes with the old story â€" if the good Lord had meant us to smoke he would have put a chimney on our bodies. Light up and continue reading. You are going to be convinced that you should give up smoking and start drinking. Easy enough for this chap to say but I bet he never smoked. ‘"Then wherever you are." the voice continues, "and the craving springs, quictly pray for strength to resist the craving. This helps multitudes of people break the smoking habit. Then as the supreme craving comes keep rememberâ€" ing that it will weaken and break before long, so hang on, you can make it." "First remember the urge will weaken. If you have questions. contact your own physician" (whom you should have contacted when you first got this silly idea to kick the habit). "He will be glad to advise you‘" (for a fes, of course). $20 TONE OF VOICE ‘‘The next five day plan to stop smoking will be preâ€" sented at the Central YMCA" (so rush girls) "at 40 College Street. October 3 to 7. The place again, the Central YMCA, 40 College Street, October 3 to 7." By this point you feel he is a frustrated salesman making a 10 per cent commisâ€" sion on anyone he suckers into the deal. With your money clutched in your hand, the doctor peers into your throat. "Hmm," he says in a $20 tone of voice. He then tells you to come into his inner sanctum for a confidential audience. The moment you enter you see the carpeting on the floor which obviously was not paid far by PSL "You‘re smoking too much," the doctor diagnoses as he lights up his third cigarette since you came in. He lets you know that the examination is over and it is time for him to get back to work. "But, Doctor," you exclaim, "what can I do about it?" "Cut down on your smoking." he says authoritavily, and all of a sudden you can see an extra five dollars being added to your bill for this piece of sage advice. "But how?" you ask cowering at the thought of the end of the month. "Willpower. Like me." the doctor says pushing his cigarette in your face. "Used to smoke sixty of these things a day. Now I only smoke fiftyâ€"seven. Willpower, that‘s what it takes." Let‘s suppose you really do feel smoking is injuring your health. Being a sensible type of person you go to your doctor complaining of a rare respiratory disease known as "Twopackaday". Shaken, you leave his office and head for the nearest shop where you can buy a carton of cigarettes. There is also the government that has ‘no smoking‘ programs. And if these campaigns are successful enough to cut down the number of smokers your taxes will go up to offset the loss of revenue from tobacco. What is more, if you live longer you will be able to pay taxes longer and with any luck at ali you might hit the booze harder and the government makes far more money from that. So live the easy carefree nicotine way. Get more out of life â€" drop dead from smoke. ‘s The Way ... by Frazer Cache in the province and more to come. It is unlikely the Comâ€" missioners assigned the labâ€" orious task of detailing a reâ€" design of these various comâ€" munities are going to be tos enthused if it appears that their recommendations will just be a basis for a new hassle. port which took two years te And there are recommenâ€" dations in The Goldenberg Report which will be opposâ€" ed with more unanimity than the proposed four cities. Proâ€" bably top on the list is the Board of Education propusâ€" als. That which appears to have grined the least support is the eleven school area boundaries requiring the votâ€" ers to familiarize themselves with an extra set of electoral boundaries. And taking the autonomy _ of _ the _ local Boards _ and placing them with the Metro School Board is also not drawing raves from many. . complete. There are similar studies going on elsewhere If you were a political gamâ€" bler it would appear that your money would be fairly safe if you put it on anyone but Weston, especially if this committee of Weston officâ€" ials carrcs out their study at their present pace.