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Mayor White ‘said Friday if apartments are the only answer to rising municipal costs ‘‘there is something wrong with the tax system." The report said that total community involvement is the most effective way of dealing with the situation and allied social problems and added that the matter is best tackledâ€" on a decentralized basis using community schools as resource centres. The study workshops involving citizens, parents, students and teachers will be preceded by task forces of school health, library and other community workers who will work out program details and produce an informative booklet for use by citizens. The report predicted that drug abuse problems will be short lived in North York as a critical community issue and will soon be replaced by other concerns such as pollution, violence or student unrest. Otherwise society will perpetuate the futile approach of waiting to perceive a new health crisis and then trying to react to it. Over 60 firms have applied to undertake an independent survey of the financial implications of apartment development requested by York borough last month. York, as Metro‘s oldest and second smallest municipality, is‘ almost entirely built up and must rely on redevelopment for increased tax assessment to meet mounting costs. Other solutions offered to this problem have been amalgamation with the City of Toronteoâ€"and expansion of York‘s territory into either the City or North York. Drug abuse workshops Trustees approved the move on Monday following the receipt of a report from J. E. Griffiths, superintendent of student services and Charles Simmons, Consultant for special programs. It dealt with measures to combat drug misuse and said the launching of more flexible and innovative community programs for youth and adults is perhaps the best way of overcoming the problem. Mayor Philip White said last week_that applications had been received from American as well as Canadian firms. The study is believed to be the first of its kind. North York conducted an internal study two years ago but the results have never been public. Development officer Donald Newman says while he feels the report is accurate ‘"the information is subjective and the conclusions could be misleading." York expects to selectfllfirm by early next month. The study will take twoâ€"three months to complete. Mayor White said if costs are beyond what the borough can afford he will seek other Metro municipalities to share in the financing. The mayor originally hoped the results would justify the large number of future apartments indicated in the borough‘s proposed official plan. Ratepayers have been vocal in their opposition to this aspect of the plan and many feel apartment development will not produce the desired financial gains. Last week the borough received a letter from the York Federation of Ratepayers‘ Associations supporting the study. The Federation is one of the opponents of high rise redevelopment in the borough. Trustees received the report with little comment but backed recommendations for the proposed study workshops. Trustee Val Scott described the report as "excellent‘. The report said that factors which have created public concern over drugs are the same as those which brought about attacks on mental health in the 50‘s, family life, sex education and human relations in the 60‘s and other problems such as under age drinking, juvenile delinquency and unwed mothers. It says there is need for a more cooperative effort by agencies and inâ€" dividuals dealing with young people and adults to find more effective ways of coping with citizens feelings, interpersonal relations, values, lifestyles and the fulfilliment of basic needs. Apartment study first of its kind by Pat Douey Borough planning commissioner Peter Allen has stated that his research shows apartments produce a profit from taxation of up to 50 per cent. A series of community study workshops will be staged across North York in April and May by the borough school board in an effort to cut down on student and adult drug VOLUME 10, NO. 4 At &‘ VUâ€"RITE TV 762â€"0086 1190 WESTON RD. The Ontario Government is being asked by North York school board to amend Bill 81 so that Metro‘s borough can be given a larger voice on Metro School Board. Trustee Mrs. Lorraine Deane won school board approval of the move on Monday and charged that the present representation by population principie is not being adhered to. She said that by next September North York‘s school age population will be within one per cent of the City of Toronto‘s enrolment but the city has six trustees on the Metro Board whereas North York has only three. Weston skater in Canadian championship Fair representation urged for Metro School Board Thirteenâ€"yearâ€"old Heather Moore will carry the colors of the Weston Figure Skating Club into the Canadian chamâ€" pionships, January 19â€"24 in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a result of her showing in the Central Ontario Sectional" championships staged this past weekend at Mississauga‘s Huron Park Arena. Heather was the youngest to qualify in the senior ladies‘ event and finished third in her division behind Carole Farmer and Judy Dick, both of the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Coub. At one point, Heather led her field after the ladies‘ figures but finished third following her freestyling. She suffered two falls. Initially gaining interest in her sport at ‘the age of four years, Heather recently became the fourth and youngest gold medallist with Weston‘s skating club. Her part in the Canadian championships will take place January 20â€"21 when she will compete against the best in Canada, inâ€" cluding the two girls she met this past weekend. She last skated in the Canadian championships in 1968 when she placed eighth in the Novice Ladies‘ section. The 13â€" yearâ€"old will be in competition against 17 and 18â€"yearâ€"olds. Placing within the top five competitors would be considered ‘better than average‘ according to local skating officials, but Heather figures she may place "maybe a little bit lower," although is not worried about her chances. * She continues to spend at least three hours each day on the ite in training for future competitions, and the day when she will aim for the world title. (Additional story and photograph on the sports page.) Metro Toronto police charged Gunther ‘Duke‘ Kullmann, 28, of Jane Street, with dangerous driving after he lost control of his vehicle on Royal York Road Saturday night and toppled a hydro standard. Suffering mild concussion, head and face cuts, Kullmann was treated at Humber Memorial Hospital and later released. A passenger, Kenneth Penney, 26, of Erie Street, escaped with bruises. Police said skid marks marked the road for more than 200 feet before the car mounted the island at Lawrence Avenue and broke the standard. Scarborough and Etobicoke have two Westonâ€"York Times Heather Moore * e _ Disastrous if Spadina Ay=~â€"~â€".â€" â€" terminatedatEglinton seats each and York and East York one each. The separate school board also has three seats. Speaking to the congregation of the Beth Am Synagogue on Keele St., he said it will probably be proposed that the board of control should be replaced by an executive committee with drastically reduced powers. His comments wereâ€"directed at the imâ€" pendingâ€"release of secret recommendations by a fourâ€"man special committee of the 17â€" man council which for almost a year has been studying ways of making the borough‘s municipal government machine more efâ€" ficient and the need for ward boundary revisions. North York will have an estimated 108,000 pupils next September and by 1972 is exâ€" pected to exceed the City of Toronto pupil enrolment to become Canada‘s second largest school system. Plans to scrap North York‘s fiveâ€"man board of control as part of a general reâ€" vamping of the borough‘s municipal adâ€" ministration are likely to surface within the next month Controllert Paul Godfrey predicted on Sunday. He said there is no re&@son why councils in Toronto and the other four boroughs could not reduce the number of their elected ofâ€" ficials by about half. He said that nearly all the municipal power that matters is now Metro Chairman Ab. Compbell has recently suggested the use of railway lines for commuter service. Mr. Lastman termed bus service in Metro a ‘"fair weather service‘ with people freezing while waiting for buses in December. He.said many residents living outside Metro can be "whisked downtown to Toronto in 20 minutes or so by a comfortable commuter train‘"‘ while others living inside Metro and paying highér taxes, rent and mortgage payments must travel on overâ€" crowded buses "that take him twice as long utilization of existing railway rightâ€"ofâ€"way would destroy need for expropriation and other costly construction in building rapid transit. x * ooo on ne C E To Bill 81 set up the Metro sy of pected to exceed the City of Toronto pupil stem enrolment to become Canada‘s second gverslmgnt and Mrs. Deane sa'd. she largest school system. esn‘t mind whether ci.ty representation on Metro school board is reduced or the Mrs. Deane said that when the Metro number of borough members increased so system of government was established the _ long as there is fairer representation all province agreed to the demnocratic principle _ round. Godfrey predicts board of control abolishment Godfrey said he personally believes North York could be governed effectively by a nineâ€"man administration consisting of a mayor and eight aldermen because a present Metro is "top heavy‘"‘ with elected officials. North York Controller Mel Lastman said on Monday Metro should use all existing railway lines for commuter transit and lay rapid transit lines next to some of the lines. Speaking to a meeting of Metro Tranâ€" sportation Committee, Mr. Lastman also urged that Metro lead the way in North America in providing free transit service. In his brief, Mr. Lastman said that He suggested adding three miles of spur track to the CNR‘s existing line to Matlon to provide transit service to the airport. . Weston, Ontario, Thursday, January 14, 1971 Lastman asks for free, better transit of representation by population but because of suburban expansion the boroughs and the City of Toronto are now 100 per cent apart on ‘‘Members of council may soon have to decide whether their own political futures should be gambled in order to obtain a smaller but more efficient adâ€" ministration," Mr. Godfrey said. "A reduction in council size would obviously mean _ many _ premature _ political retirements." A draft report of the North York special committee chaired by Ward 12 Ald. John Williams, was sent out to senior borough officials last week but has not been released to anyone else outside the fourâ€"man comâ€" mittee whose other members are Ald. Robert Yuill, Ald. Frederick Schindeler and Ald. Ian Rogers. Mr. Lastman said the Spadina rapid transit must be opened before the exâ€" pressway is opened, even while expressway construction is stopped. Recommending free transit, he said costs would be reduced because there would be no need for turnstiles, tickets, closed circuit TV with a reduction in manpower as well. "A noâ€"fare system, supported by senior government grants through a broad tax base, would entice many more riders on an improved system knowing they would pay for it anyway through their taxes." Etobicoke Controller David Lacey countered Mr. Lastman‘s arugments by saying studies have shown free service would attract only another 11 per cent of TTC riders~ East York Mayor True Davidson said Metro would have to consider banning cars from the downtown area of Metro if free transit were introduced. * concentrated in the hands of Metro Council and the Ontario Municipal Board. Currently the third largest municipality in Canada North York has a population of nearly 500,000. Its 12 wards have populations ranging between 27,000 and 63,000, The borough‘s size in likely to increase drastically with the province‘s plans for northward expansion of Metro. to get to work as it takes a resident of Mississauga." the report contains until it goes before council, possibly on January 18. Other committee members also refused to disclose the contents. Criminal lawyer John J. Robinette tangled with top Metro officials last week as hearings on the proposed extension of the William R. Allen Expressway got underway at the Ontario Municipal Board last week. The hearings, originally scheduled to take six weeks, are now expected to be finished by the middle of next week. ~ ‘‘Torontonians are fed up with seeing their tax dollars being poured into highway construction to lure more cars into the city to cause more pollution and traffic snarls." OMB Chairman J.A. Kennedy began last Monday by saying that a 1963 agreement between Metro and the province to build the expressway to Bloor St. would have "a persuasive but not a binding effect on this Mr. Robinette representing a group of 13 ratepayers‘ associations opposed to the further extension of the expressway from where it now ends at Lawrence Ave. Metro plans to terminate the expressway at Spadina Ave. and College St. The hearings will decide whether Metro will be permitted to spend another $66 million to complete the expressway. A rapid Williams declined to reveal details of what EXPERT CONTENDS Area ratepayers strongly oppose any development of the golf course even though the perimeter building plan would enable the 18 holes to remain as a privately operated pay as you play project. The golf course onwners want to build five 33â€"storey condominium apartments in the northeast corner of the golf course which is now zoned private open space and 66 single family homes on the southern edge. S.L. Robins, lawyer for the Pinetree Development Co. Ltd., the land owners, objected to the adjournment. He said that both North York and Metro councils have had an opportunity to acquire the golf course since 1965 but have made no effort to Owen Chapman, North York council‘s deputy solic?r said the hearings into the borough‘s proposed general land use plan for the York Downs area should be adâ€" journed to give council more time to conâ€" sider buying the golf course for public park and study a rezoning application by the owners. The Ontario Municipal Board last week adjourned until May 3 hearings into the possible building of high rise apartments and single family homes on part of the 165 acre York Downs Golf Course. transit line to run the median of the exâ€" pressway will cost $95 million and total cost of the expressway is estimated at $142 First witness called by Metro was Roads and Traffic Commissioner Sam Cass who said traffic, noise and air pollution would be better combatted on high speed exâ€" pressways than on residential streets. Lawyer Harvey Wengle, representing Cedarvale Ratepayers, asked Mr. Cass what the effect would be if the expressway were completed as far as Eglinton Ave. "I shudder to think about it," Mr. Cass replied. Currently all the expressway groundwork as far as Eglinton Ave. has been laid and only the paving remains to be done. Metro seeks approval of the extension from beyond Eglinton only as funds have already been granted to extend it that far. 1. Lorne Inomas, JoNn SL., is IAY I°A0OT. Dr. Norman Guann ?Ii:-:-:-:-:-:-:~:-m:-m-m»w-m:@:m\:-»x-}m-»mwmww Mr. Cass anticipated from reports of his department that about 800 cars would normally leave the egpressway at Eglinton and 800 more would enter there. Without a further extension, conditions would be disastrous. Construction on the expressway has been halted for 16 months. The Traffic Commissioner agreed with Mr. Robinette during crossâ€"examination that the expressway would serve as a "dump and drain‘‘ for the northwest area of Metro but he added that traffic to the downtown core would not increase. Mr. Wengle said he is officially neither for or against the expressway since his group is split in half on the issue. ‘"The one thing that we are united about is that we, none of us, want it to end at Eglinton Ave. It would be disastrous," he said. At a recent meeting of the Cedarvale Ratepayers, Mr. Wengle led a move to get the association behind the expressway to prevent it from ending at Eglinton and dumping traffic there. Cedarvale streets are presently heavily congested with traffic which filters south from the present terâ€" minal of the expressway at Lawrence Ave. Mr. Wengle felt at that time Cedarvale would have a more powerful voice in obâ€" taining the amenities it wants for its park and against noise and light pollution if Spadina were completed. He said Eglinton Ave. is already being| tused to 95 per cent of its capacity. Fellowship of Christians, Dr. Gunn atâ€" tends the Maiton Bible Chapel of which Lorne Thomas, John St., is lay leader. Placing the call at 11:00 p.m., Dr. Gunn was speaking to Mr. Ivanov by 3:45 a.m. on December 30. He was told that he could not speak to the Premier unless he spoke in Russian. Golf course reprieve A member of the Evangelical Strike talks break down A recent meeting between the Johnson, Matthey & Mallory Limited and its striking employees in the Precious Metal Workers Union, Local 24739 broke down following a brief session in the offices of the Provincial Labor Department. The Labor Minister‘s office called the parties together for the first time since the workers struck November 14 against the company‘s decision to move a division of its plant to Woodstock, Ontario. Main issues in dispute include the plant closure clause, time off for union officers for the purposes of conducting union business and company payment of Ontario Hospital premiums. The company offered a clause which would give severence pay based on a means test and such payment to be at the discretion of the company. The union is demanding a clause in the contract giving severence pay to all employees on the basis of seniority. ‘"Our workers reject the company‘s offer as an insult," informed Local president Doug Upton, "particularly in lieu of the fact that already the company has transferred part of its operations to Woodstock, â€" a move which has resulted in 70 workers being laid off without severence pay and another 40 workers taking a wage cut varying from 10 to 26 cents per hour. Management was demanding a limit of 384 days per year (representing a compiled number of hours for all union efficers), but has since reduced this to 86. This is an obâ€" estimated that it it would be prepared to enter into negotiations on the plarit closure clauses, but only if the union dropped all other demands, according to union officials. The union negotiations committee rejected this ultimatum and negotiations broke off. Membership backed the union negotiating committee by 98.3 per cent, or 173â€"3. ‘‘The two major issues in dispute are items that were in the expired contract, but which became bargaining items because they were on management‘s agenda. Union officers have had unlimited time off for conducting union business â€" at union exâ€" pense, of course. vious insult, if not a provocation," added SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS