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The bride‘s father, of course, is Peter Tacon, chairman of the Board. And the relatives are the coun cillors and school trustees. The bride is the new adminiâ€" stration building which the North York Board of Education says it has to build early in the New Year. The groom in the marriage can be considered cemetery land purâ€" chased on Yonge St. to be the nucleus of a civic centre and the father of the groom may be thought of as Reeve James Serâ€" vice who dreams of a Willowdale civic centre similar to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. If all marriages were performâ€" ed the way North York Council and Township School Board are attempting to match a piece of ground with a building, there would be very few successful partnerships in the world today. A westâ€"end councillor declared Monday that he would resist the temptation of giving his annual speech on the niggardly manner that North York treats its poor people during Christmas. Ward Five Councillor Murray Chusid was taunted by another councillor when a committee reâ€" port recommending the distribuâ€" tion of $1.000 worth of Christâ€" mas cheer‘"‘ (food hampers to township welfare cases) was unâ€" der consideration. However, when Councillor Wm. Sutherland asked for a list of those whoâ€" had received the *"*Christmas cheer" Chusaid said that this is going just one step too far. "We always decry burâ€" eaucracy for the best of reasons but surely we can do at least this without exposing those and vreducing their human dignity by insisting on knowing who they may be." Chusid Declares: No "Cheapskate" Speech This Year ‘Toronto teachers are expected to want increases of between 23 and 25 p.c. when negotiations beâ€" gin with Metro School ~Board early next year. Etobicoke and York Township teachers may deâ€" mand wage <hikes of 20 to 25 p.c. Now it appears that teachers across Metro and. possibly throughout the province will ask for similar increases. During most of the year, repâ€" resentatives for school board and the OSSTF have been negoâ€" tiating salaries and fringe beneâ€" fits, but failed to reach agreeâ€" ment. ‘The North York Secondary S chool Teachers‘ Federation wants the School Board to boost teacher salaries 23 p.c. This deâ€" mand could increase township taxes $6 million to $7 million a year. UDI asked Board of Control to make the levy $150 until a comâ€" prehensive study has been made (Continued on page 7) Yuill‘s committee suggested that the charge should be $200 but this move was opposed by the Urban _ Development â€" Institute (UDI) made up of a membership of apartment builders and ownâ€" ers. | The courtship Monday took, a Councillor Robert Yuill expresâ€" sed his opposition at Council folâ€" lowing a recommendation by Board of Control that the levy should be changed from $150 per suite. To date North York has chargâ€" ed all the developers $100. for park purposes on applications where property has been reâ€" zoned. J The chairman of the North York Parks and Recreation Comâ€" mittee vigorously opposed a move Monday to reduce a Parks levy of $200 per suite for new apartâ€" ment buildings to $150 per suite. Teachers Want $6 Million In N.Y. Alone Chmn. Won‘t Water Down Parks Levy VOL. 5 Appointed To Represent C anad a Majestic Mink By The Canada Mink Breeders Association. "Choose Your Furrier .... Before You Choose Your Furs." 1978 Weston Rd. If Relatives Refuse To Reach Agreement Civic Centre Marriage May Be Annulled NQO. 50 The application by a Weston funeral home to purchase a 420â€" | square foot parcel of land beâ€" | longing to the town library board ! was refused by the Metropolitan | Toronto Executive Committee. The Ward Funeral Home Ltd. at Weston Rd. and King St. apâ€" plied for the property for future expansion and the request was endorsed by Weston Council and Library Board. Under Bill 81, however approvâ€" al of Metropolitan Toronto is reâ€" quired for the sale of public land used for library purposes. turn for the worse because the bride‘s father said he will have to match the bride to another Wayne Bush, OHC Director of Statistics, said the site will really be larger than six acres because it will only be separated by a 60â€" foot mall from the 10â€"acre Junior High School site on the other side. age needed to build a school and he stated that he failed to see why OHC should be exempted from the rules. Metropolitan Toronto, said Conâ€" troller Paisley, has a definite formula for the amount of acreâ€" Controller Paisley said the OHC request is "completely contrary‘" The Board discovered that the Housing Authority would like to build a school in its housing proâ€" ject at Jane and Steeles on a sixâ€"acre rather than an eightâ€"acre site. The tests. performed by suckâ€" ing out a small quantity of air from the car interior while motor is running aud. windows and doors are locked up tight, indiâ€" cate that the majority of leaks stem from faulty gaskets in the exhaust system rather than deâ€" terioration of the piping and exâ€" Outâ€"going _ Controller _ Irving Paisley complained at Board of Control last week that the Ontarâ€" io Housing Corporation is renegâ€" ing on promises it has already made. is well above the permissible safety and health level set by air pollution experts. Engineer David Peterson, manâ€" ager of the Technical Products Department of the company, said 25 per cent of the autos tested had carbon monoxide counts of 40 to 50 parts per million which OHC Backtracks On Promise To Janeâ€"Steeles Residents If scientific tests conducted reâ€" cently may be used as a guide, there is one chance in four that deadly carbon monoxide from the motor and exhaust system peneâ€" trates or leaks into the interior of your car. This is the finding of a Downsâ€" view safety device company, which made a carbon monoxide count of its employees‘ automoâ€" biles â€" most of the vehicles beâ€" ing of recent vintage. Metro Vetoes Sale Of Land 241 AUTO GAS TEST CENTRE: Man on right runs rubber pipe into "air tight" interior, while man left calculates carbon monoxide count on C.O. tester. 8091 Poisonous Carkon Monoxide Leaks Into Every 4th Auto Aleston Times‘y One of the relatives, Controller Irving Paisley, who was defeatâ€" ed in the Dec. 5 elections, made a passionate appeal for the other relatives to patch up their difâ€" ferences and get on with the marâ€" riage. Another â€" relative, â€" Councillor Ian Rogers, said he has heard that the present administrative quarters of school board are so cramped that secretaries are alâ€" most sitting on their bosses‘ laps. groom, a ‘site at Bathurst and Finch, if the groom‘s father, Reeve Service, doesn‘t hurry up and reach agreement on the dowry. The dowry is the million dollars that the Board of Education has at its disposal to build the adâ€" ministration ‘centre. But the milâ€" lion dollars will revert back to Metro if it isn‘t used this vear. Councillor Walter Cassels then complained that Council had spent threeâ€"quarters of an hour New Deadlines For Christmas Board of Control decided to iron out the problem with OHC before giving the application its final blessing. He did point out however, that safety experts are taking a greatâ€" er interest in the problem, and that the Crown Attorney of Hailâ€" ton County recently ordered an investigation into a fatal collision where the driver had blacked out for no apparent reason seconds before the crash.â€" The Crown Atâ€" tormey hopes to find out if carâ€" bon monoxide poisoning was the cause. to commitments made to the people facing the public housing project and living in the Janeâ€" Steeles area. Despite preliminary | findings, more tests will be made by Mine Safety Appliances before the company can arrive at definite conclusions, Peterson said. Asked by the TIMES where the motorist may have his car tested, Peterson replied that to his knowâ€" ledge, nowhere. The safety design engineer said on a long trip with closed windows, a driver in poor health or tired, would feel the effect of carbon monoxide poisoning, but a healthy, normal man should be able to withstand it. bhaust system, said Peterson of the Mine Safety Appliances Co. of Canada Ltd. Next week‘s issue of The Times will be delivered to homes and put in the newsâ€" stands Wednesday _ morning, December 21st instead of Thursday, Dec. 22nd duve to the holidays. Deadline for Classiâ€" fied Want Ads will be 12 noon, Tuesday, December 20th. Copy from columnists must be in this office by 5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 18th. For the Thursday, Dec. 29th edition, normal deadlines will resume. in debate "when all we are askâ€" ing for is parental consent.‘"" The terms as to how the house will be built, the number of bedâ€" rooms, and means of support should all be settled after the marriage, he contended. It was finally agreed that North York would sell the three acres of civic centre property for $125 per acre to the Board and that negotiations between the relatives would continue. "For better or for worse let‘s hold the vote right now," added William Sutherland. His message today includés a number of excerpts from the past with a final windâ€"up in a true Christmas spirit. Judge for yourself. The Retailer is Ken‘s John or is it Ken Johns on Page 5 of this issue. We are calling attention to a Retailer in the Town of Weston who‘s furrowed brow appears in this newspaper about fiftyâ€"two weeks in the year with his own brand of humour . that leaves many of our weekly subscribers weak. According to the protocol of newspaper publishing it is more or less against the rules and regâ€" ulations of editing to call attenâ€" tion to any Advertiser‘s message on the inside from the front page. However his Christmas hu-i mour has got us and in all probâ€" ability will cause you a laugh or two when you read it. \ On January 1, the Borough of York planning board will have control of planning and construcâ€" tion in Weston. Schemes already approved by the Municipal Board, Lawrence said are: @ Cargadesh Holdings Ltd. â€" a 17â€"story apartment dwelling at 2053 Weston Road. @ Mortex Corporation Ltd. â€" a 23â€"story apartment building at the north east corner of Wesâ€" ton Rd. and Lawrence Ave. @ Cerom Developments Ltd. â€" a 12â€"story apartment at the south east corner of Weston Rd. and Coulter Ave. Town â€" planning _ coâ€"ordinator Donovan Pinker told council that the Lionstar plan has been deâ€" signed to compliment rather than conflict with the main shopping strip along Weston Rd. between King and Lawrence. A meeting will be held between the merchants and the developâ€" er, Gordon Singer, so that there will be a full degree of coâ€"operaâ€" tion, the planning . consultant said. Councillor Wilbert Perry, who earlier at the meeting criticizes counmcil for failure to. adopt an official Weston zoning plan preâ€" pared in 1962, cautioned that those who will be affected by the proposed and ratified Lawrenceâ€" Weston Rd. complexes should be kept informed on the latest deâ€" velopments. These avre: the Bellevue Mall commercial apartment complex, the several tower Lawrence Ave. W. apartment projects, and the massive Lionstar® Development, a scheme to erect apartments, commercial space and an indoor shopping maill on the south side of King St. When these projects are approvâ€" ed. by the Ontario Municipal Board, the developers may start construction. 3 MULTI â€" MILLION $ PROJECTS TO DOMINATE TOWN SKYLINE In his very last report to council, F. A. Lawrence, chairman of the Weston Planning Board stated that three â€" multiâ€"millionâ€"dollar projects within the central area of Weston have reâ€" ceived approval of planâ€" ning board and council. FREE 1967 CAR TO WESTON CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS WESTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1966 Christmas Humour DETAILS PAGE 6 Mrs. T. E. Dougherty requested the return of her family‘s sterling silver spade used by Prince Arâ€" thur on Oct 5, 1869 to turn the first sod. for the Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway. The spade was donated to the now defunct Weston Historical Society and enâ€" cased in glass in the town hall‘s main lobby. Many of the older townsfolk, born and raised in Weston, are at least a little disturbed that their town will be absorbed by York in the new year. She asked Weston Council Monday why her application is being refused when other peoâ€" ple on King St. and other streets in the town have as many as four families living in a singleâ€" family home and yielding single famly municipal taxes. When Weston broke away from the Township of York in 1882, it took nothing, said formâ€" er Mayor Ken Thompson at the town‘s "last supper." Mrs. John Osborne would like to build a twoâ€"room addition to her King St: home but says she can‘t because of red tape. Mayor Wes Boddington reâ€" plied: "Some people get away with it for a while but when it "And upon our return (to the Borough of York), we are bringâ€" ing our fatted calf with us." "Weston Sad But Gan Look Back With Pride" Addressing over 200 Wesion Widow Of Former Mayor Won‘t Let Silver Spade Go To York OLDE TYME COUNCILLORS participating in the last Municipal Dinner to be held in Weston are: (from 1.) James Weir, Ken Thompson, ‘Mike‘ Harâ€" PAST MAYORS OF WESTON are: (from 1) C Wesley Boddington (1965â€"1966), George Bull Harry Clark, Ken Thompson, S. Gordon (Mike) Mrs. Osborne Questions Toothless Zoning Bylaw patriots, who, throughout the years, have served the townr in numerous ways, Mr. Thomson numerous ways, Mr.\ Thompson noted that Weston‘s total revenue in its first year of existence amounted to $1,183.81. "Our esâ€" timated revenues for 1966 are in excess of $2,000,000." Councillors, at their last meet ing ever to be held in the town readily complied with her wish. Mrs. Dougherty promised that in the event of the formation of a new Historical Society, the spade could again go where it would be appreciated. Mrs. Dougherty, widow of a colorful former Weston mayor, said that now Weston and York are consolidating to form . the Borough of York, she felt that the spade should be returned to the family so that it wouldn‘t go astray. The mayor suggested that Mrs. Osborne should retain an architect to design an addition which would be permissable under the town‘s zoning bylaws. is brought to our attention we have to do our best to uphold the bylaw." Mrs. Osborne said some peoâ€" ple even run businesses such as hairdressing salons in residenâ€" tial neigshborhoods. When this step is laken, h° added, she can then go to the building inspector and obtain a puilding permit. He said Bill 81. which conâ€" solidates Metro‘s 13 municipaliâ€" ties into six at the beginning of the new year, calls for an amalâ€" gamation of municipalities raâ€" ther than the takeover of one by the other. For another story and list of those who received Certificates of Appreciation for their contriâ€" butions to Weston, see Page 9. "All of us are naturally feelâ€" ing rather sad about the demise of ~our town," said Mr. Thompâ€" son, "but. we cannot help but look back with a great deal of pride to the community spirit which has been so evident over the life of. our municipality. There is no doubt that our contriâ€" butions over many years to the County of York and latterly to Metropolitan Toronto have far The man who has maintained law and order in the animal kingdom of the Town of Weston for the past two decades accused York Township Monday of givâ€" ing him the short end of the stick. Dog catcher and pound keepâ€" er Mel Mortimer complained to Weston Council that the York administration has failed io ofâ€" fer him a job in spite of the fact that be has been a faithful town servant since 1947. ris, Ernest (Doc) Banting, Herb Ackrow, T. Ray Simpson, Jack Petrie, H. Foster Rowntrse. Photo by W. H. Henderson Harris. The banquet was held to honor those who have served the town. The story and their names appear on Page 9. After 2 Decades As Keeper Of Town‘s Animal Kingdom, Mortimer Quits, Blasts York Mayor Wes Boddington told Mortimer that he could have a job if he had only applied as the Mayor had recommended. Mortimer said that he would have accepted the job but only if York asked him to take it. Mayor Wes Boddington who was the other speaker at the Municipal Dinner in the Weston Legion Hall, pledged_that alâ€" though Weston will cease to exâ€" ist as a municipality the area will continue to be known as Weston. Mr. Boddington said that as Weston‘s last mayor, he would assume responsibility for the Town Chain of Office until ar rangements are made to preâ€" serve the chain in a permanent location. After airing his grievance, Weston‘s last canine officer praised the town and its council, stating members had done a fine job in looking after the people‘s interests. resignation to C ouncil, stated that during his 19 years as the canine officer, there has been 24â€"hour, 365â€"day emergency serâ€" vice. He took only seven days‘ holiâ€" day, and never during that time did the Humane Society in Torâ€" onto have to take over because he had failed to do his job. In York, he said, canine officials work from 9 to 5 with a telephone answering service for after hour complaints. outweighed our little area of one square mile." SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS 241â€"6951 241â€"5261 O W E R S Occasions Delivery