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. North York council has finallyl They see fit to print a warning > broken down and decided to pay| on a popular seltzer product sayâ€" rent for 10 St. Lucie Dr. families ing "Caution â€" May be injurious currently living in an Ontario if taken in large doses or for a Housing~ project. > {long time." stated the druggist. The families left their homes| There is no reason why a warnâ€" ; earlier this year when warned ing should not be placed on cigâ€" ___________that the houses couldâ€"tumbleâ€"into â€"areiteâ€"packagesâ€"asâ€"wellâ€"White practise Oct. 15. j Alderman Doug Saunders said Several warned that they he would go along with that if couldn‘t pay rent as well as mortâ€" Council would ask Metro to place gage payments on their homes.) billboards ‘hroughout Metropoliâ€" Working behind the scenes, the|tan Toronto with this warning" Ward alderman, John Booth, per. Do not breathe metropolitan air suaded council members to unaâ€" â€" It will kill you." â€" nimously â€" vote rent payments! "We owe to the youth to first until Jan. 15 when their steep| make them aware of the dangers ravine lots should be buttressed/in the use of marijuana and exâ€" to prevent landslides. Work will perimenting with LSD." said alâ€" begin said Booth as soon as the derman Lenard Geary, In _Sudden Switch _ N. York Decides To Pay St. Lucie Rent the Humber River without warnâ€" ing. Since then, the borough has been picking up their OHC rent payments but decided to stop this practise Oct. 15. "We owe it to our youth to warn them against the dangers of cigarette smoking," he said. The government is more concernâ€" to prevent landslides. Work will begin said Booth as soon as the Provincial treasury board reâ€" leases funds earmarked for the project because everyone else is ready to start. Geraid Gallagher is a working ‘ letter man‘s friend and champion of the ‘ ber . underdog. | :::I;'Ste He is also> involved in a 1098 ) mum affair with the radio, lelevisionz‘.o'lun and press corps. icax Almost every day a labor crew calls him up and complains that working â€" conditions are unsafe at site "x". Within an hour, pickets surround the site, Ontâ€" ario and city safety inspectors arrive on the scené and the comâ€" plaint is thoroughly investigaled. Gerry Gallagher guards against "criminal and unsafe" working conditions. A few years ago he organized a union for Ontario Hydro, becoming a professional union negotiator after five men died needlessly in the Hoggs Hollow disaster â€" buried alive when the walls of the subway tunnel project caved in. SEVERAL MEN KILLED During the past couple of weeks, several men in (he ‘Metro area have been killed by faulty Will Be Checking York and North York Soon Afler a campaign to get this problem straightened out so that the risk of loss of life is dropped to almost zero, the business manâ€" ager for Local 183 of the Internaâ€" tional Labourers‘ Union will launch a new project. REACHING INTO N. YORK . Soon his staff, who in the past have been concentrating on raisâ€" ing construction safety standards A meeting held last week to consider a North York civic cenâ€" tre in the heart of Willowdale One report leaked out of the secret meeting to the effect that consultants had proposed a mamâ€" moth government building that would span over Yonge St. with communications towers . would reach 1,000 feet into the sky. tower would be 16 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower, almost twice the height of the Toronto Dominâ€" ion Centre, and only 250 feet less than the Empire State Building â€" taftest structure in the world. "Make cigarette manufacturers mhace a warning 0.: all their packâ€" ages ‘sfi\ing that cigarette smokâ€" ing is dangerous to health" deâ€" mands â€" York ~ controller Phil White. booms and cranes and Gallagher, who registered a complaint with the Ontario labor safety branch, was told that the government safety men are not qualified to inspect this kind of construction machinery. reaching out into the suburbs to check on working conditions in Etobicoke, North York, Scarboro in nature" by Mayor Jim Service Gallagher said the municipalities will be Bid To Label Cigarette Packs ‘Dangerous To Health‘ Fails â€" Civic Centre Structure Would Dwarf Toronto Dominion Bildg. Gallagher‘s Job Is To Save Lives suburban asked by pointment ~to ~Her ~Majéesty ~the believes the ‘department _ of health and welfare must intensify its warnings against cigarette smoking. White‘s motion supported by alderman Jack Gallichan. Chris Tonks and Walter Saunders lost on a four to five vote. Sitting back smoking a cigar. Alderman Walter Saunders said he would second that motion. to the present municipal building but that final plans won‘t be subâ€" mitted for council and Ontarie Municipal Board approval for another 15 months. While members of council lookâ€" ed afound for ashtrays to get rid of" their cigarettes pharmacist White told them he wasn‘t against them smoking, he was strongly opposed to the type of cigareite advertising that is persuasive and seductive, such as: "doubly smooth" and "truly mild" â€" and slogans that make smoking acâ€" ceptable, for instance: "by ap Queen." letter to supply a list of the numâ€" ber and qualifications of their construction safety inspectors. If any employ fewer than the miniâ€" Department of Highways emâ€" ployees who wark on a coniract basis are treated as second class citizens, a DOH employee chargâ€" ed recently. The North York resident was referring to the 119 men curâ€" rently involved with highway conâ€" crete work and other jobs that DOH hires temporary labor to do. First building to be erected in the civic centre complex will be North York school board‘s new be mext spring, the mayor said. Several aldermen â€" particularâ€" ly those in the westend â€" are a $165,000 on consultants to design an unbamn centre. Ward 1 Alderâ€" man John Booth commented that it takes very little imagination to propose a building which would span over Youge St. * mum number required for the volume of construction underâ€" way, or, if the inspectors don‘t have the proper qualifications for Service said the key to the civic centre will be a 9Oâ€"acre site next ed about tax revenue he charged than in the health of the indiâ€" vidual. DOH Treats Contract Help ‘"As Second Class Citizens‘ This man‘s chief complaint was that a number of contract workâ€" ers were asked last year to join First N. York Plaza Built In 1952 The shopping centre: A place for .weekend shopping or buying a few groceries during the week. A place where children gather when they have nothing better to do. The shopping centre came to Metro Toronto in 1952; That was the year that North York receivâ€" ed its first shopping centre. It covered 20 gcres and had 39 stores. The borough of York ob tained ifs first shopping plara. a seven store combimation, in Shopping Centres Are Springing Up Like Toadstools There are so many obstacies in the way of using Downsview Airâ€" port for the 1976 Olympics, a serious attempt to land the inâ€" ternational games on this locaâ€" tion would be like "‘tilting at windmills," said Mayor James Service yesterday. on ftaxable property zhroughoud the borough of York next year| to be used for expansion of| Northwestern and Humber Memâ€" orial hospitals. : The request was made by Robâ€" ert Ferguson, administrator of Humber _ Memorial. Controller Philip White said there is a three nth waiting list for surgical) operetions at the Weston hosâ€"! pitall and patients often have to | be bedded in the halls at Northâ€"‘ western. The one mill levy was overwhelmingly approved during the Dec. 1966 municipal election#| Over a five year period Mr. Ferâ€" guson said, the levy will generate $1.4 million for the two hospitals.! Like Tilting At Windmilis There are better places than the airport for the games, said the mayor, but the real problem would be to convince the Canaâ€" dian Olympic Association, a Monâ€" treal based organization, to let Metro obtain the Olympics, when it is already on record in favor of a Montreal location. Another problem Service said is that the previous and present Federal governments have stated that the airport will be used in the forseeable future for its preâ€" sent purposes. ‘‘On fop of that, you would have to turf out North York‘s largest employer" _ â€" Douglas Aircraft â€" which has a long term lease on the airport property. Service..predictedâ€"thatâ€"Toronto airport will eventually be located 60 to 100 miles outside of Toronto and â€"Downsview will serve as a helicopter shuttle centre. 1 m hormmynp mm qo e C 0 e nE 0C said, but joined the group plan| ganist" ahd choir master, who when invited. | earlier held the same positions at DOH employment supervisor| Westminster United, died in early Tan Cowan said last week that, January. A nominal fee will be contract workers are informed charged at the door. The band that they can‘t join a group has earned scores of firsts in (Continued on page 7) Jcompelilion across the Dominion. ~~Councit voted unanimously on Monday to levy one mill exira THE LAST RESORT Picket lines and strikes are used only as the last resort when (Continued on page 5) a group medical plan set up for highways employees and then were laid off six months later leaving them without sick beneâ€" tits in the event of becoming ill. Many of these employees'had private plans such as PSI, he} the job, the union will ask the municipalities to beef up the staff and or improve their safety qualiâ€" fications. MOVE LAUNCHED TO USE DOWNSVIEW AIRPORT FOR 1976 OLYMPIC GAMES Olympics Here? JAMES TRIMBEE SR A @&Sl F L O W ER S MestonTimes K NK ""zmarâ€"cos: Hospital Levy _Will Produce $1,400,000 Today 75 percent of all retail stores in North York are found in shopping plazas and 15 percent of York‘s retail outlets are also in shopping centres. A study by Metro planners shows that over 36 percent of all retail store out» lets are to be found in shopping lined up block after block along a main traffic route. still in the old style strip comâ€" The borough of York has 10 of the old style strip commercial The recital. sponsored on beâ€" half of the Jean Harper Memâ€" orial Fund by the Beverley Hills church choir, will be held in the church auditorium, 60 Mayall Ave., 8:15 p.m.Stomorrow. _ Mrs. Harper, the church orâ€" Conductor B. J. Robbins plans a whole array of numbers rangâ€" ing from popular and band pieces to Broadway musicals. The public and members of Beverley Hills United Church will have the privilege tomorrow night of hearing one of the most famous bands in Canada, the Metropolitan Silver Band. Some 250 Swift Workers Laid Off Some 250 to 300 Canadian Swift inghouse Food and Allied Workâ€" Co. workers were either pensionâ€"|ers, said many of the senior emâ€" ed. paid or laid off as a result of | ployees have been pensioned off theâ€"company â€"closingâ€"down ‘its.’bmre" ‘the ~normal retirement Plant Shutdown slaughter ‘ouse, and meat packâ€" ing plant at St. Clair and Keele St. Sam Hughes, assistant Cana dian director of the United Pack Beverley Hills United Sponsors Band Recital WESTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1967 RING AROUND THE SYÂ¥MBOL captures the mood of a mural displayed in the children‘s centennial art exhibit coming on strong in libraries throughout Borough of York until Nov. 24. The first showing in the sixâ€"part series took place on Sept. 29. Over 1500 works have been contributed by Kindergarteners and students in Grades 1 to 8 of the borough‘s 27 schools. At right, York schools‘ art supervisor, Roy Hughes, jots down something of interest as photographer snaps the shutter. and Jane St..North York has 13 strip commercial areas, the langâ€" est being in North WiBowdale. The city of Toronto in 1953 had T3 percent of all retail shopping outlets. This has dwindled over the years to 46 percent. Less than four percent of the city‘s retail stores are in shopping centres. There are 173 shopping centres acres of land and providing 57.000 aveas. the largest being in the Eglinton â€" Dufferin â€" region _ with smaller ones along Weston Rd. For a year rumors had been spreading around the plant which employed 650 workers and an office staff of 200 that it would eventually close down. Hughes said the faâ€"ilities were allowed to deteriorate during the past 10 years while the plant next door, Canada Packers, spent $8 million on a modernization program. __ George Harrison, 78, was dead on arrival at Humber, Memorial Hospital Sunday evening after beâ€" ing struck by a car driven by David Idiens. 20, of 5 Thorn Lane, Don Mills. â€" Hughes noted that the Ameriâ€" can owned company dumped $11 A man who was admitted to St. Raphael‘s Nursing Home on Yorkville Ave. Friday was killed two days later while crossing highway 401 near Weston Rd. Mr. Harrison has no next of Kin. i date and will therefore receive much smaller pensions than they would have under normal condiâ€" tions. Most of the workers afâ€" fected live in York, North York the city and Etobicoke. 78â€"Yearâ€"Old Hit Killed On 401 parking spaces. They offer 2300 stores. North York has over 51 shopâ€" ping centres offering 1,027 stores. They cover over 376 acres of land. York has four shopping centres in North York is Yorkdale with 90 stores covering 74 acres. This acres. ‘ The largest shopping centre in York up to 1966 was Westgate Plaza with 10 stores covering 13 The Christmas spirit apparently has overtaken them already and they have offered a free opportunâ€" ity for all our readers to acquire some extra cash for Christmas if the readers take advantage of their FREE offer on Page Six of this edition. Mrs. Gladys Lenton and Mrs. June Mcintyre, the two ladies in charge of receiving classified adâ€" vertisements . for the Weston Times classified section noticed at yesterday morning‘s press deadline for this issue that the date was October 25th. One sighed Reminder: . Act immediately, mail or drop your form in before Tuesday, 5 p.m. classification 26 to the other, "Just think, two months from toâ€"day will be Christmas Day." million in a Saskaichewan ash company to acquire 20 cent of the shares. _ The ~union director said the company is still in a state of turmoil, but many of the emplqyâ€" ees have been ukeg on by Pressâ€" wood Bacon nearb?. a subsidiary owned by Swifts. Presswood had 250 employees before Swifts Free Xmas Cash Opportunity (Continued on page 7) plaza is the largest shopping plaza in Metro. The second largest in North York is the Don Mills plaza covering 44 beres and proâ€" viding 57 stores. No commercial complex with less than five stores is recognized by Metro planners as a shopping centre. There are 26 shopping centres in the Toronto Townshipâ€"V aughanâ€" Markhamâ€"Pickering township reâ€" gion that bordets on the Metro federation. They provide 419 stores covering a total area of 174 acres. nfhmm largest is 32 acre Dixie plaza in Township. It has 42 pot per Coming north from Bloor St., the bus will turn west on Page Ave., north on Watson Ave, east on Dundas and return south on Jane St. Watson will be oneâ€"way, northbound from Page to Dunâ€" das St. Pians are afoot to widen and extend â€" Industry St in Mount Dennis from its present northerâ€" ly limit at Ray Ave. in a north easterly direction to connect with Tretheway Dr. at Brookhaven in North York. The new Janeâ€"Dundas railway underpass is causing a good many problems. When construcâ€" ton closes the subway the Jane bus won‘t be able to travel south to Bloor Street. It has therefore been proposed that the Jane bus route be operated in two sections. Operating between Weston Rd. and St. Clair the Jane bus will travel as usual south on Jane to Recent traffic stugies underâ€" taken by North York and the borough of York show that the opening up of Industry St. will greatly facilitate flow of traffic in this area. For some time now, Ward 2 Alderman Joe Gould has opposed the proposal, insisting that it will funnel heavy traffic into the residential streets of the Brookâ€" havenâ€"Hardington area. Traffic Men Will Link Industry St. To Tretheway Dr. Jane Bus Route Split In ITwo proposal to bring .the 1976â€"Olymâ€" pics to Downsview Airport as an Olympic â€" Association . indicated that Montreal or Winnipeg would be the choice if Canada gets the games and "unfortunately Toronâ€" to hasn‘t got much in the way of facilities to make them change their minds," he said. ‘They would have to be convinced that we have better facilities than the other two cities." Right now, the Metro chaurman The pedestrian crosswalk on Keele Si. in front of North western hospital has been a conâ€" troversial subject for some time. in the cight year period (1959â€" 1966) there have been 151 acâ€" cidents with 58 per cent of them involving southbound rear. end collisions. 1 won‘t work Right now, the Metro chaurman said. he is more interested in getting the 1970 world hockey tournaments for Toronto. It is also doubtful if the Fedâ€" eral government will relinquish and since it would underwrite the games it also calls the shots. Hf Metro gets the international be in a better position to eventu ally get the Olympics too, he said Pritchard Ave.. east on Pritchard to Mariposa Ave.. south on Mariâ€" posa then west on St. Clair and return north on Jane. Mariposa will be oneâ€"way south bound. A pedestrian crossover from St. Clair to Dundas at Jane will allow bus travellers and pedestâ€" rians to walk from the north Jane bus to the south Jane bus. In the first six months of 1967 alone there have been reported 13 accidents, nine beitg rear end collisions. In one instance fout cars were involved. Both Metro and York traffie conclusion that this crosswalk at Keele and Greenbrooke Dr. is Not Practical Metro Chmn. Northwestern Hospital Xâ€"Walk To Be Removed SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS 241â€"6951 241â€"5261 it will then