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TWOâ€"WAY VISION â€" Swimming along in fresh water \without spectactes, the â€" anableps, a < tropical fish, is truly a fourâ€"eyed specimen. This liveâ€"bearer, which sometimes grows a foot â€" long, | has â€" unusual ivided vision. Its eyc ,iuembks that of a frog, except that | the upper portion is adapted for sight in the air, while the lower is for vision in the, water. Mr. and Mrs. Terry Grant, Selby Ontario, counsellors for the young people there, visited with Mr.â€"and Mrs. Alf Jackson on the weekend to get some ideas for their young peoples‘ group. Some of the members of the executive of Riverside‘s young peoples‘ group were present at the Jacksons on Sunday along with Mr. and Mrs. Art Loucks. Steven Bromley and Fred Rae, who were billeted with the Grants when they were in Selby a couple of weeks ago, were to visit them at the Jacksons on Sunday. Mrs. Nan Farrant, Yorkdale Cres., is home after her stay in hospital and a week spent at her son‘s and is feeling much improved in health. Nan is most grateful to all her friends for remembering her with cards, flowers, phone calls and all the things that helped to cheer her while confined to bed. There are three problems in v o l ved in this expenditure. Almost 32 per cent of all taxes collected this year went to pay off the debt and debt charges associated â€" with â€" previous borrowing of funds. Taxes will continue to rise over the next five years and the cost of borrowing money for civic government today involves near exhorbitant interest rates. The _ $163â€"million _ is divided on the basis of $94â€"million for Metro services, _ $38â€"million _ for local city and borough needs and the balance for various © rapid transit and commuter parking needs. This budget is for general services and is entirely separate from the tentative $146â€"million in spending Metro needs $300â€"million in ‘69 Two N.Y. students Mrs. Maryon Kushner, the new leader of 278B brownie pack has some heip with Mrs.. Bev_ de Savigny, a former brownie leader,. and a â€" willing worker. In addition to Gail Moore, who is starting ‘her second year with brownies, Susan and Carol Finlay and Lump this sum with what Metro school board wants to spend and the total figure adds up to over $300â€"million. Metro government and the: city and five boroughs would like to _ spend $163â€"million next year to provide new and improved municipal â€" services and facilities in the 240â€"square mile Metro civic federation. Page 16 THE BUDGET Mr. _ and Mrs. Ron Penlington and Mark,. Ann Arbour _ Rd., spent the weekend in Dundas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nichoth 0 8 > Misses Barbara and Florence ~Hook, Melody Rd.. held a surprise birthday party on Saturday evening for Donna Schnavel and Kath Ford who were each celebrating their 21st birthdays. The evening was spent in visiting and dancing followed by delicious _ refreshments featuring two â€" decorated birthday cakes. Couple‘s Club at Riverside United is this Saturday evening at the church, at 8:00 p.m. The program _ will _be a Christmas â€" party â€" followed by refreshments. All couples are welcome and each person is to bring a gift of not over SQ cents, which will not be easy to do as 50 cents doesn‘t buy much.‘ These will be exchanged. This borrowing is se parate from the borrowing needs of the area school boards and the Metro school board. wWASTE DISPOSAL Metro will spend over $2â€"million this year as part of a total $12â€"million program to acquire and establish sites for incinerators, waste disposal, transfer stations and new â€" leader will be appreciated. Good Luck to you Mrs. Kushner with your pack. Have you mothers made those sitâ€"upons yet? And what about the flags! Mr. Terry Midwood who spent four months with Mr. and Mrs. Percy Cordwell, Ann _ Arbour Rd., has returned to his home in Oldham, England. : WANTS $10â€"M. York has indicated ~to Metro that it may need nearly _ $10â€"million borrowed for its purposes during the five year period 1969 â€"â€" 1973. North York‘s requirements during this perio d _ may reach $61â€"million, all borrowed on the public money market. Mrs. Jean Prior, 278B‘s former leader, will remain active with the pack as a tester, and her advice and helpful information to the Jean Rutter have offered their talents. These girls are very fine examples of the teenagers in the area who are willing to devote some of their spare time to helping others. In order to help finance this program â€" Metro anticipates borrowing $117â€"million on the public borrowing . market â€" next year. Of. this amount $11â€"million is marked for Nort h. YÂ¥ ork ~and $2,500,000 for York. Budget cuts, however, may re duce the overall borrowing of funds next year. that the area school boards are considering for next year. a \ The wapital budget also includes acceleration of the Eglintom: Ave. W. extension from Caledonia Rd. to Royal ; York. Rd. York Mayor Jack Mould stressed to â€" Me#tro e xecutive committee last week the need for a new crossing of the Humber River to handle traffic in York and northern Etobicoke. Metro has still to settle its priority on construction as between the Spadina expressway and the The old Rockcliffe plant site in York may become a transfer station â€"forâ€" waste enroute; from â€" Metro â€" to disposal, sites well "out . in the country. Most of the transpartation to the transfer. point would be by trucks with the waste going on from this point by railway line. â€" tÂ¥ â€" i= flammable liquid waste sites. . EGLINTON AVE. THE WESTON TIMES Scarboro â€" expressway. Metro traffic officials are reluctant to split the bulk ‘of ~their expressway construction funds between two expressway projects. They â€" would rather complete the Spadina first. SPADINA EXPWY. North York and York elected representatives are anxious to see the Spadina expressway â€" completed w hile= <city Cefected representatives, fearful of a heavy flow of traffic on to local city streets, would much rather slow down Spadina and speed up the Scarboro expressway. Metro hopes to get its capital spending program for 1969, which includes $22â€"million for the Yonge subway extension, over to the Ontario _ municipal board by Christmas. The OMB must ‘approve the budget. _~ North York Board of Education Chairman, Bruce Bone, presented each of these students with a che(we for $300 to cover some of their expenses on this trip. , Chosen were Nancy Sherman, 18 years of age, and a grade 13 student at Sir Sanford Fleming SEcondary School, and Jim Winters, also 18 a grade 13 student at Northview Heights Secondary School. ‘ By PEG GRANT Two . students, " selected. !°°*" by the nterâ€"Collegiate: UP t Student Council for North . d¢leg York, will be delegates at â€" !8!¢S the Council of Education AM¢® in â€" World Citizenship London Conference, to be Th held in London,. England o f over the Christmas Holiday _ autho season. stundv chosen for U.K. trip These Christmas Holiday THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1968 lectures will be attended by up to 2,600 High School delegates from the British Isles, Europe and North America. The North York Board of Ed ucation has authorized a long range study of summer school for students, but in the meantime the _ current program will be carried on. Summer School will have to be removed from the status of a part time, extra curricular responsibility and put in the hands of a principal â€"responsible for planning and coâ€"ordinating the operation on a full time basis. O. A. Pritchard, former principal of Earl Haig Secondary School will assume this responsibility for the 1968â€"9 school year.