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Weston Times (1966), 12 Oct 1967, p. 8

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14 H i § * What Can We Do With All That Garbage? â€" Page 8 â€"â€" THE WESTON TIMES â€"â€" Thursday, October T2, 1967 eineration of waste material and A committee of municipal enâ€" gineers headed by North York works commissioner Brian Ruddy has come to believe that the inâ€" role than first considered by Metâ€" nmâ€"dm I-fidz supported by what they to be growing On October 17th, Reâ€"Elect During his term of office Fred He has maintained a constituency Young has been as near each constituent elinie each week where people come to as the telephone. discuss problems and find answers. Voting Fred Young is voting for: FRED YOUNG Fred YOUNG headquarters â€"â€" Lower Auditorium, Crang Plaza Phone 247â€"7855 â€" 6 â€" 7 â€" 8. NEW DEMocratic CANDIDATE â€"â€" YORKVIEW will be open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 12th, 13th and 14th days of October, 1967, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (9 a.m. until 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. Daylight Saving Time). The polling places for the said electoral district will be located at â€" for the purpose of receiving the votes of voterk who expect on the day fixed for polling, to be absent from and unable to vote in the polling subdivisions for which their names appear on the lists. , The ballot boxes will be opened and the votes counted at 7 p.m. E.S.T., (8 p.m. Daylight Saving Time) on the 17th day of October at the said places. | Notice is hereby given that a poll for the Electoral District of For All Polling Subdivisions FRED YOUNG IN HIS CONSTITUENCY CLINIC ADVANCE POLL HE IS A FULL TIME MEMBER A Prices Review Board to curb the rising cost of living A Rent Review Board to keep rents in line. Reform of the tax system to relieve the burden on the home owner. A massive Home Building program to relieve the housing shortage. Dated at Etobicoke this 4th day of October, 1967. | YOUNG is in touch with the people of Yorkview BETWEEN elections as well as at election time. AN AVAILABLE M.P.P. FRED ~YOUNG NOTICE OF HOLDING AN ETOBICOKE He has sent a report to every home in his constituency during each session of the Legislature. epposition to sanitary land fill sites where wasie and garbage is epinion that it may be difficult to obtain local civic agreement in h"-‘ciu Vaughan and Markâ€" T ips t Dlist further land fill areas. city.fi- further land fill areas. City ofâ€" ficials believe that with modern equipment the danger of air pol KENNETH A. RETALLICK. 50. Monterey Drive 24 Tofield Cres. 67 Sunvale Drive 3 Westroyal Road Returning Officer, years "" ner câ€"nt going to i meo-fihcdm gineers believe a 50 year plan of waste disposal is essential. Metro plans deal just with the next 20 Metro‘s study indicates support for a plan that would have 80 per cént of all wastes buried and lution can be. sharply reduced. safety instruction. * Records show that in 1966 out of 19 school children fatally inâ€" jured, only four were killed on school days, going to or coming from school. The other 15 deaths took place while the child was under. parental control. Deputy Metro Police Chief John ! More than 27 percent of all pedâ€" | estrians killed in traffic accidents. \ in Metro last year were school age children up to the age of 14. Almost 58 percent of the ‘ deaths took place during the sumâ€" mer holidays. This is when the ‘child was supposed to be under the full supervision of the parâ€" Metro police department is not. satisfied that parents are giving Murray, in charge of traffic, said itâ€"is obvious that there is a lack of parental controlâ€" and superâ€" vision. ‘‘The child accident rate is higher on weekends than on weekdays," he <claimed. *‘The parents don‘t seem to keep their children‘ off the street." Metro police department atâ€" tempts to maintain a high safety record among children by havâ€" ing a staff of 20 police officers assigned to tour over 500 schools in the Metro area to give lecâ€" tures and show films. The police department‘s trafâ€" Police Urge Parental Control is convinced that teaching of | traffic safety should not be left | in the hands of the schools alone ; if accidents are to be reduced.; ‘‘The parents must take a far | greater role in promoting traffic safety," said Deputy Chief Mur-i ray. With the coming of the winter months Metro police report a general upswing in fatal traffic accidents among elderly pedestâ€" rians in the over 65 age bracket. Last year 22 pedestrians in the over 65 age bracket were killed in traffic accidents and 68 perâ€" cent of these met death during the winter months. Perhaps through confusion, 63 percent of the elderly persons who were killed committed an offence against the rules of the road by: crossing the road through movâ€" ing traffic; crossing the road at other than an intersection; crossâ€" ing at an intersection improperly Metro police consider the peâ€" destrian the major cause of conâ€" cern in the traffic accident rate. Over 55 percent of all fatal trafâ€" fic accidents each year involve pedestrians. In‘ury Riddled Weston Last Tuesday, George Harvey‘s senior football team defeated }Yesmn 35â€"8. The ‘Weston team has been weakened by injuries to seven key players. Two players are in hospital with injuries sufâ€" fered in the first two games of the schedule, one player is out for the season, and four other‘s are on the sidelines. Don Schiraldi. a slick runner. pass catcher and kicker. paced | the Harvey seniors with one| touch down. two conversions and | a single from a midfield kickoff | for a nine point performance. and ; also set up another touchdown. | IN YORKVIEW ON OCTOBER 17th VOTE TO ELECT JACK HOLLEY Progressive Conservative candidate talks politics with futufe voters. At a meeting held at Silverthorne public school Tuesday night, Holâ€" ley said the only choice is the Robarts government because it is responsible for and is equipped to maintain prosperity and the high standard of living. Child Fatalities Can be Reduced So far this year over 21,500 trafâ€" fic accidents have been reported to Metro police with over 10,000 and crossing against a traffic light. killed. If the current trend preâ€" vails for the balance of the year 18 p.c. of all accidents will take place in North York and six p.c. in the borough of York. Almost 20 ‘p.c. of the traffic accidents involving injury this year can expect to take place in North York and another five p.c. will take place in York. An estimated 16 p.c. of all traffic fatal accidents in Metro this year will take place in North York with another four p.c. listed for It is expected that seven p.c Reâ€"Elect DONALD C. MACDONALD have an ombudsman appointed to guard the able conduct of Donald C. MacDonald conâ€" rights of individual citizens but if the laudâ€" tinues we may not need one . . . tice wherever it arises and then to fight it until it is licked." ‘"There has been an increasing clamor to "His approach is simply to seek out injusâ€" THE LEADER FOR ONTARIO 7162â€"8555 THE MAN FOR YORK SOUTH CAMPAIGN OFFICE: 1016 WESTON RD. AT DENNIS AVE: (SOUTH OP EGLINTON) of the motorists in Metro today will by the end of the year have been involved in a motor vehicle accident. Aside from the over 100 persons killed each year and over 14,000 injured in traffic acâ€" cidents the property damage will exceed $13â€"million this year. youth cannot always be blamed out of 57,000 motorists involved in accidents only 12 percent were in the teenage bracket. Perhaps one of the most startâ€" ling factor about traffic accidents in Metro is that the majority took place under the most favorable driving conditions. In 74 percent of the cases there was clear weather and in 62 percent is was daylight. â€"ROBERT NICOLSON, Canadian Register. FOR CARS OR INFORMATION Phone sidered. York‘s Traffic coâ€"ordinaâ€" tor J. Price, suggests that the "highway type" sign 30" x 30" will be seen more easily ind would help cut down accidents in the borough. 7 At present 24" x 24"" signs are in use at most of the stop sign Several locations for these larâ€" ger 4gns are recommended for traffic entering the following streets: Scariett Rd., East Dr., Church â€" St., Beechborough Ave., Castlefield Ave., Roselawn Ave., Caledonia Rd., Rogers Rd., Lyon Ave., Oakwood Ave., Winona Dr., Baby Point Rd.;, Silverthorne Ave., and St. John‘s Rd. Bigger stop signs in Bigger Stop Signs To Reduce Accidents Buy a Bond at Bank of Montreal 22:50° ‘5041000" Bank of Montreal Buy yours now for cash or by instalments. ' Only 5% down â€" balance in easy payments over a year. | Now available at all branches.\ Canada Savings Bonds| 1967/68 Series Canada‘s First Bank 762 â€" 8281 ‘These streets were chosen basâ€" ed on the amount of traffic and the number of accidents recorded at the intersections.

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