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I really enjoyed the article and| I can remember a lovely old picture in your paper of two Of house with a big chestnut tree three weeks ago about the Old out the front at Ellesmere just days in Weston and would like to south of the new Steinberg store, see more of them |about where the "old" Post Of. How about one on the old Eagle fice stands. Does anyone rememâ€" House before it is torn down. ber it? There was a row of stores Gommunists Clarify Stand On Hospitals In one of your election issues truth . Weueweuawu'c'ol the a m :fPP“;N '::;flfll"t‘; need for increased hospital faciliâ€" a radio lca § . sponsored by the Forest Hill Con. °> 2n4 hospital beds. stituency Club of the Communist: We feel, though, that the cost Party of Canada, calling upon of hospital expansion should be the people to vote against the borne by the senior governments. oneâ€"mill tax increase for hospital The taxpayers of this Borough expansion. . are already bearing a sufficiently Your news item left the impresâ€" heavy burden of taxation, and it sion that the above club was opâ€" is for this reason that we called posed to hospital expansion. |upon the voters to vote "no." BARRIBSTERS and $OLICITORS _ Howard G. Ashbourne, B A. Carl W. Caskey, B.A., QC. _ 8077 LAWRENCE avE w. (Just West Of Weston RA4.) | WESTON, ONT. â€" 247â€"6677 Enjoys Reading Weston‘s History Notary Public . Evenings by Appoint: ~1938 Weston Rd. (at John St.) Alfred H. Herman letter The tragic irony of the fat proâ€" fits that pour into the drug houses is that it is often the sick.and the old â€" people who can least afford exâ€" pensive prescrintions because they can‘t work â€" who pay the ridiculousâ€" ly high prices for drugs. Pills which cost a hospital $2 a dozen may cost the patient receiving doctor‘s care at home, $10. In a recent editorial, the Toronto Star said it‘s time for the Federal A little arithematic demonstratâ€" es that the brand name product is priced at 800 per cent more than the unnamed product which the druggist â€" a graduate of the Ontario College of Pharmacy â€" said is every bit as good. A member of the Weston Times staff recently purchased a 100â€"pill bottle of acetylsalicilic acid (aspirin) for 19 cents at a drug store, and yet a little wee brand name tin containâ€" ing a dozen pills of the same product in a variety store costs 26 cents. The prices that thousands in North York, Weston and York resiâ€" dents (and for that matter people all through Ontario) pay for drugs are way out of line with the actual costs of production. Fraser & Simms 1944 Weston Road Opposite jJohn Street ton, Ont. CB 11911 The Weston Times is every bit as "annoyed and upset" as the Torâ€" onto Star at some of the exorbitant prices drug manufacturers charge for their product. CH 45697 9.C. + Solicitor Public Appointment Professional â€" Business Directory _ Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday V, J. McMillan, President and Publisher J. M. Jordan, General Manager B. M. Hoimes, Editor © Telephone CH 1â€"5211 Authorized as Second Class Mai‘, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Ont., and for payment cf postage in cash BARRISTERS Profiteering In Drugs SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada â€" Other countries $6.00 , Editorial Page also the old Town Hall? Nothing is further from the:’ We hope you truth . We are well aware of me\mm, by way of need for increased hospital faciliâ€"‘ of our stand on t! ties, and hospital beds. } Your We feel, though, that the cost| ic athare onl Mt. Dennis George W. Bull Barrister and Solicitor Suite 202 The Westlaw Bidg. 1920 Weston Rd. Weston, Ontario CH 4â€"5547â€"8â€"9 And Repairing ennis RO 9â€"2841 Work Guaranteed Wm" A. Riggs 1230 Jane Street MUSIC The Weston Times suggests that another step which could bring the price of drugs within a sick person‘s ability to pay, would be to set up retail drug dispensaries in every public hospital such as Humber Meâ€" morial and Northwestern. If Mr. John Public wants to buy his wife a mink coat he can afford to pay the going price for doing so. But, don‘t ask Mr. Senior Citizen to pay through the nose for drugs esâ€" sential for health of his wife. This is profiteering of the worst sort. Hospitals buy “arugs at a fracâ€" tion the cost the consumer pays and could sell them at a fraction of the cost that "brand names" sell for in other retail outlets. , We agree wholeheartedly. The abolition of tariffs would force the domestic manufacturers to compete in an open market place and would tend to bring down prices to the level prevailing in the rest of the world. The abolition of trademarks and patents would cut out the fantastic sums paid in advertising and would entitle other Canadian companies to compete in the manufacturing proâ€" cesses. government to call a stop to drug profiteering at the expense of the sick. 4 The Star suggested that this could be done by abolishing patents, tariffs and trademarks on drugs. How about a history of the early days of some of the local churches, . Central United, St. John‘s and the old Presbyterian up on Cross St.? I know this is all contained in the book "History of Weston" just above it that were set back in from the sidewalk and then curved back out again, almost up to Central Church. of our stand on this issue. Yours truly, Walter‘s Gaoruge FULL GUARANTEE Motor & Automatic Whee! Alignment . s FREE Courtesy Car. Pleli 1778 Jame St _ CBH 165# We hope you will print:this ACCOUNTANTsS Communist Party of Canada 24 Ceril Srteet, Toronto. Ontario. & Mrs. N. Kashtan, Secretary, Forest Hill Constituency Club, Chartered Accoustants Marsh, Goulding Chartered A C. W. LEASK 1730 Weston Road 1960 Weston Road 58 Dixon Road, Rexdale, Ontari unm“‘v'-;m. u.!s" -:‘.!:.fl Member Toranto Stock Exchange SKYLINE ROTEL BRANCB . J. BROOKS & Co. an explanation CB 1â€"1129 [| Scarlat Albright, O.D. _ Speaking of the Post Office, I can remember picking up our mail about once a week when the Post Office was in the old Eagle House and also when it was across the street about where Graham‘s is now. but I understand it is no longer available. photocopying service. . 1970 Weston Rd., Weston Off. 244â€"3516 â€" Res. 244â€"7387 When I was quite small I re B. Arch. M.R.A.LC. ARCBHITECT Complete blueprinting Alexander A. Lasko J. R. Currie, O.D. The result? Throuflmut Metro and pazicularly in older urban areas such as Mount Dennis and the central core Optometrist 1894 Weston Rd., Weston For Appointment Cail CH 1â€"0701 Everyone, single or with a famâ€" ily to look after, needs a place to live and is forced to rent almost any acâ€" commodation he can get. In Metropolitan Toronto, immiâ€" grants and Canadians from other proâ€" vinces are pouring in at the rate of 50,000 people a year. Municipalities such as the Borâ€" oughs of York and North York are getting people faster than new housâ€" ing units are being erected. In England and Scotland, in spite of the recordâ€"breaking homeâ€" building programs, the British govâ€" ernment and town councils are just incapable of erecting enough housing units for the people. ° In Sweden, the situation is much the same. There are hundreds of thousands of families patiently waitâ€" ing for the central government‘s crash homeâ€"building program to bring supply up to demand. It often takes years before the government can supply an applicant with a decent place to live. In Holland, the housing situation is so serious, the government has passed laws forbidding young coupâ€" les to marry until they find a place to live. &sidering that some coupâ€" les have to wait six to seven years before they can acquire living acâ€" commodation (and get married) it is not hard to appreciate the seriousness of Holland‘s housing problems. ARCHITECTS OPTOMETRY Metro‘s Great Housing Crisis This would be 35â€"40 years ago, when Lawrence Ave. was called Eagle Ave. (between Weston Rd. and Jane) and was later called Dufferin St.. I think. member the store you wrote about in your article. It was at Lawrence and Weston Rd., but it was called Hardacre & Cairns and was, I beliéve, a grocery i The part east of Jane. up to Doherty Roadhouse & McCuaig Bros. & _ The future of our community never Jooked brighter, and we‘re extremely proud and happy to be a part of this great realization. As each new day brings its own new challenge, we know we can share with each of you in the efforts that will lead our community on to a New Year filled with everâ€"greater growth and development. Our Best Wishes to you for a New Year full of happiness. 13 JOHN ST. A Very Happy New Vear If Metro council takes this step first, it will be in a better position to decide where the next one should be. Since the Metropolitan Toronto government is the closest form of govâ€" ernment to the people, perhaps it should launch an enquiry â€" leaving no stone unturnedâ€"to seek and find the chief reasons for Metro‘s terrible housing shortage. od will solve Metro‘s housing situaâ€" tion when it has failed so badly in Europe. Certainly the senior governments can "loosen their purse strings" by inâ€" creasing income and sales taxes, but it_is questionable whether this methâ€" Many of the Metro politicians have no answer to the problem except to shout at the Federal and Provincial governments to loosen up the purse strings, and build more public housâ€" ing units. In North York, Weston and York there are many thousands of boardâ€" ers and families living jllegally in neighborhoods zoned sinQe ~ family residential. If the councils of these three muniâ€" cipalities ever ordered the building inspectors to prosecute each homeâ€" owner who violates the zoning byâ€" laws, many thousands would be thrown out on the streets. of Toronto, people are living two, three, four and even five families to a houseâ€"homes originally built for singleâ€"family occupancy. Metropolitan Toronto has a housâ€" ing crisis every bit as serious as the crises in Europe and Great Britain. 3 Members PRINCIPAL CANADIAN STOCK EXCHANGES The Investment Dealers Association Of Canada I‘m afraid I‘m inclined to reâ€" sent all these highrise apartments and office buildings that are goâ€" ing up, as they take away the homey smallâ€"town look to the Weston I knew and loved. However, 1 suppose it is proâ€" gress, but before all the old land. CA 4 and beyond Keele St. was called MeDougall Ave. and had ditches about four feet deep, which overâ€" flowed every spring. ’r\ .‘i 3.‘} jll 5; s\ marks go, let‘s have a good look at them again through pictures and writeups. A "FAIR" BUDGET Business called Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp‘s "min} budget" extremely good because tax increases to business were exceptionally modest. Labor called the budget terrible. because it will cost the average family an extra $20 a year in direct and indirect taxes. T call the budget fair because tax increases are the best deterrents to production that 1 know of and because Sharp resisted the temptation of taxing another billion dollars worth of production out of existence. And believe me, with all the money hungry politicians in Ottawa attempting to get their mitts on more money io fulfill their November 1965 election pledges, here were a lot of people pressurinz the Finance Minister to increase taxes a lot more than he did. If two per cent is all the food chains return to their shareholders, why then is the cost of food "consuming" an increasingly high proportion of our wage dollars? I think the "United Electrical Bulletin‘ put its finger on the answer when it pointed out that the holding companies associated with the supermarkets, hold the title to the store parking lots and buildings. One Liners Or More If therefore the holding companies charge the chains say $100,000 a year.rent for property that only has a real rental value of $20,000 a year, the holding companies make a fortune by forcing food prices sky high, while the chain stores plead poverty and extremely modest profits at the price probe meetings. s I think the Senateâ€"Commons committee would agree with me that if all businesses only made two per cent on sales. Canada would easily have the lowest living costs in the world. PROFOUND THINKING According to the Toronto Star, Herb Hignett, president of Central Mortgage and Housing Corp., said "one of the biggest reasons for the growing housing shortage is that home production isn‘t keeping up with the formation of families." I don‘t want to steal any of Mr. Hignett‘s thunder, but I think his profound statement would be on par to the Health Minister declatring: "One of the biggest reasons Canaâ€" dians breathe air is that they want to keep alive." Oh wellâ€" WHY HIGH FOOD PRICES? ‘The Ottawa probe on food prices revealed several surâ€" prising facts such as only five companies control 75 per cent of the multiâ€"billion dollar grocery business and that George Garfield )Vestm, born in a little apartment: above the family‘s bak@ store, has amassed a fortune of close to $800 million dollars. (Not bad for a boy of whom his father once ‘predicted would never become a successful business man.) The Senateâ€"Commons committee on consumer credit and prices received several other surprises including sworn statements from the chain supermarkets that their retail food prices netted the companies a mere two per cent or less in profits. But says the business publication "Office Equipment & Methods," within 10 years the ratio will be 50â€"50. Considering the benefits the white collar worker gets today including, vacations, welfare, bonuses, life insurance, pensions, statutory holidays, wage continuance, hospital and medical insurance, car allowances, rest periods and coffec breaks, is it any wonder that the farmer is leaving the land and the miner the hole in the ground? 736 ELECTED TO 35? POSTS ‘These figures won‘t be accurate because I forget the real ones but they will serve the purpose. According to the Conâ€" servative Party, 259 of the candidites who ran in the Dec. 5$ Metro elections, were Conservatives and elected to office as mayors, controllers, aldermen, school trystees and so on. According to the Liberal party, 241 card carrying Liberals were elected. According to the New Democratic Party, 236 of their supporters came out on top. Add these figures up and the total elected (according to Ontario‘s three major political parties) was 756 mayors, controllers and so on. If there were only a total of 357 possible positions being contested Dec. 5 in Metropolitan Toronto, how can the three party total be 736° â€"NO FUTURE FOR CITIES? ‘ According to "Heavy Construction News," a York Univer, sity professor says the city as we know it today wilf have vanished in 60 to 70 years from now. History Prof.â€"Alex 0. Murray believes city centres will eventually be passe and therefore he sees little point in building such huge downtown projects as the T. Eaton Co.‘s proposed $260 centre beside the new Toronto city hall. There are 40 Canadians working in offices and the serâ€" Vice industries to 60 who toil on the farms and oceans and in mines and factories. That‘s The Way ... WESTON Yours truly. A longâ€"time reader by Frazer Cache claims Against the estate of JAMES HART CALDWELL late of 3 Woodward Avenue in the Town of Weston, in the County of York who died on or about the 4th day of November, 1966, are heréby notified to send full partiâ€" culars of their claims to the Ts day of sanuaey: 1960 aE of January, atâ€" ter v:{eh date the Estate will be distributed having r'e"'ud only to the claims of which DATED at Weston, Ontarâ€" i0, this 6th day of Decemâ€" ber. 1966 EUPHEMIA LUNâ€" 9? _Ath'rlphhwr,,by her solicitor, George W,. Bull, !.!!9..'_’0"3!'. Road, Suite 202, MEDICAL BUILDING 2160 Weston Rd. (at Church St. Traffic Light) AND OTHERS In The Estate of James Hart Caldwell, Deceased. ALL _ PERSONS hlv‘m% claims against the estate 0 DISPENSING OPTICIAN Oculist â€" Prescriptions Completed â€" Repairs â€" Duplications & Fittings Shutâ€"In Service NEIL J. MOREAU NOTICE To CREDITORS 248â€"1821