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V Thunderclouds rolled across the otherwise quiet Borough of York council meeting Monday as Alderman Peter Bosa and Conâ€" troller Douglas Saunders squared off on the matter of York water lots. Mod sod for CNE NEWS BRIEFS The controller wouldn‘t let Etobicoke Mayor Edward Horton shuffle the motions off to the Metro executive committee for study. He said he had quite a few words to say and council was going to listen to them. Council at least got the controller to postâ€" pone his speech until the next meeting of council at the end of the month. Among the notices of motion filed by the North York controller was one asking for a study to determine if the Metro municipalities would benefit from having a metropolitan fire department and another asking if Metro could provide Metro wide facilities for the training of firemen. North York Controller Mel Lastman bombarded Metro Council with notices of motion last week with all of them demanâ€" ding an evaluation of municipal services. Other notices of motion include an evaluation of metropolitan police service, study of the establishment of a Metro purchasing department to do all the buying for the city and boroughs, an evaluation of public transit service in the boroughs and a study of the value of a metropolitan health department. VOL. 10, No. 50, North York Controllee Paul Godfrey moved the motion in Metro Council last week that council approve in principle the placing of artificial turf at the CNE stadium to accommodate football and baseball games as well as other sport and enâ€" tertainment activity. York Mayor Philip White reminded council that it was in competition with other cities for sporting activity and had to keep up to date. North York Controller Paisley called it a good investment. The Canadian National Exhibition directors last week agreed that they couldn‘t go along with a York borough proposal that 60 per cent of the headline talent at future CNE grandstand shows be Canadians. CNE president John Corrigan claimed the problem was to find Canadian talent that would attract sufficient economic return. We need attractions that sell tickets," he told the directors, including York Mayor Philip White. The CNE will continue to use U.S. show business talent in order to attract sufficient revenue to help meet CNE operating costs. 17 Daybar Avenue â€" Phone 247â€"6137 Off Martingrove Rd. 1 block South of Belfield North ~York Controller Paul Godfrey warned Metro Council last week that it may be getting more than it bargained for in asking the province to extend its boundary north and east to take in additional land and create another borough. The controller said the province might take one look at Metro‘s request for a boundary extension and decide that maybe some of the boundary lines between the city and boroughs and between the boroughs should be changed. He said Metro would have to face the possibility that the boundary of York and East York could be changed. This is the second recent reference at Metro governâ€" ment about a York boundary change. North York Mayor Basil Hall suggested the need for a York boundary change within the last two weeks as a means of providing York with more taxable assessment to meet rising municipal costs. North York might be interested in a boundary change with York but it would depend entirely on what kind of a boundary extension Metro would get north of Steeles Avenue in Markham and Vaughan. Sparking the confrontation was a Two of three of York‘s elected representatives at Metro Council were not prepared to support an easterly boundary extension by Metro to establish a new municipal borough as part of the Metro system. York Controllers James Trimbee and Douglas Saunders voted against the idea while York Controller Philip White supported the extension. North York Conâ€" troller Paul Hunt also opposed the easterly extension of Metro into Pickering Township. North York Controller Irving Paisley contended that if Metro got more open space it would reduce the pressure on the boroughs and the city to rézone single family areas for high rise apartments. Bosaâ€"Saunders continue rift but change topic Up, downâ€" over and out NEW SHOWROOM ALL MODELS ON DISPLAY YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR 3 T9A : Last word letter from borough treasurer G. E. Mitchell indicating the revenue loss resulting from the City of Toronto‘s takeover of the lots in question. ‘"‘The taxpayers of York will pay dearly for the advertising they received on these water lots," Mr. George Syme School to get playground At Monday night‘s meeting of the York Board of Education, trustees approved the first phase of a plan for the development of the playground area around George Syme Junior school. This 40,000 dollar expenditure will provide a protective rail fence around the perimeter of the school, along with site clearance and installation of the drainage and watering systems. The main question about the first phase was the fence and how much protection it would actually provide for the children. "It is more decorative than the standard chain link type, which, if used, would give the school a prison like atmosphere," The fence is to be constructed of cedar, standing 28" high with posts every eight feet. Trustees deferred the second part of the plan to a future date, after the public has be_gn able to meet and discuss the proposals. The second phase of the development is a "creative playground," a new kind of playground which has been tried sucâ€" cessfully in other parts of the borough, and elsewhere. Added to that would be the Opening soon Westonâ€"York Times Bosa said. He continued, "If Controller. Saunders had kept his mouth shut they would have been saved thousands of dollars.‘" In rebuttal Controller Saunders tabled minutes of various meetings that indicated it was the City of Toronto, not himself, who had raised the issue. This week, the board of education tackled the problems of setting up a cable TV distribution system for schools in the borough. Total estimated cost of the plan is $112,566 as it stands, development would be comâ€" pleted in 1973. planting of trees and shrubbery on the school site. There are four cable companies serving the area, complicating the problem. A motion passed by the board urges more cooperation between the companies in distributing programming. At. present it is impossible to put a program on more than one system at a time, because you have to use one company‘s facilities and channel. Schools in the borough are divided into company areas as follows: York Cablevision 12, Keeble Cable 7, Graham TVâ€" FM 15, and MacLean Hunter 1. There are 23 different cable companies in metro, and boards of education face the technical task of program production and distribution to each of them. The Amesbury Park hockey rink is almost complete and will be officially opened for regular play on December 3. The rink will enable the Amesbury boys of North York to play under a roof and away from the elements. The rink is a long needed attraction for the youths of the region and all are looking forward to playing their favourite sport indoors. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1971 Controller Saunder pointed out it was some eight months later that he brought the matter to the atâ€" tention of the borough council. The matter was first brought up by Toronto in October 1969 and again in March of 1970. The companies themselves are seen to have two main functions in the schools. Firstly, to help students understand and develop communication skills using itelevision as a medium and secondly, as a distribution network for eductional and community programs. The board says the cable companies are un willing to enter into any agreements with them at this time, but that they are working for closer cooperation on the use of comâ€" munity channels. The board of education approved a $9,600 expenditure for the installation of hair dryers in girls‘ change rooms at Weston, George Harvey, Runnymede, and York Memorial Collegiates. Twelve units will be installed in each school at a cost of $200. per unit. Trustee Michael McDonald pointed out that this item was "low on the list of priorities," and that the board shouldn‘t be presenting expenditures like this to the community when there are more pressing items. He noted that Mr. Bosa‘s remarks‘"‘ were completely unâ€" ‘"And if my examination proves it called for‘"‘ and demanded an _ was not, I won‘t apologize", Mr. apology from Mr. Bosa. Bosa concluded. Queen‘s Park passed a private This, the Ward Three alderman _ bill giving title to the disputed said, he would be prepared to do ‘"if _ lands to the City of Toronto. The my examination of my records _ revenueloss, which will not happen proves the matter had been raised _ until 1974â€"75, amounts to apâ€" before council previously"‘. proximately $2,000 a year. This, the Ward Three alderman said, he would be prepared to do "if my examination of my records proves the matter had been raised before council previously"‘. P.C.‘s look back for the future The York South Provincial Progressive Conservatives are not taking their loss in the recent elections laying down. In a meeting of party workers, executives of the association and the canâ€" didate at Fairbank Hall last Thursday evening, it was made perfectly clear that the P.C.s will be campaigning from now until the next What the Borough of York has paid in gross and average salaries from 1968 on, and the percentage increase each year will be revealed in a schedule to be prepared by the borough treasurer for council. A proposed highâ€"rise professional building, just south of the borough on Bloor Street, concerned council at Monday‘s meeting. A part of the developer‘s plan, apâ€" parently, would be the closing of Traymore Provincial authorization will be sought by the Borough of York for two winter works projects totalling $45,000. Walls to cost $20,000 will be built at Cedarvale Park and seating worth $25,000 will be added to Keelsdale Park if authorization is granted. The cost to the borough for the two projects will be approximately $5,000.York council alsoâ€" â€" set a speed limit of 25 miles per hour on The significance of communications in the borough hydro costing system became evident at Monday‘s council meeting. Council was voting on a change in the internal workings of its books which places various markups on the work done by one department for another, all in the interests of a better cost analysis. In a bélated move the Borough of York council voted Monday to request that Metro rename Eglinton Flats in honor of Governor Simcoe who, according to Mayor Philip White, ‘"followed a pathway down to the Humber." Originally the motion before council The move was belated as Metro was exâ€" Wage increases from mayor down to be revealed Keeping New change in hydro charges Brain picking session at Fairbank Hall Winter projects Earn money in your spare time! Call circulation department at 249â€"7641 now for more information. Simcoe Park? We‘re growing â€" but we need help. Carrier boys and girls are required to maintain routes in this area. Mrs. Ed Weatherall, president of the York South P.C. Provincial Association, opened the meeting, invited executives of the various committees, the campaign manager, Cy Townsend, and the candidate, Douglas Saunders, to give their views of events of the past election. provincial election day in a stronger effort to get a Davis man elected from the riding. C câ€"~ . . . for the best people come to us COME TO US FOR THE BEST PEOPLE pected to change the name of Eglinton Flats to Sir Winston Churchill Park this week. called for these figures to deal only with wages paid a firstâ€"class fireman. However, an amendment at Monday‘s meeting instructed the treasurer to include all union and nonâ€"union employees, and to those monies paid to the aldermen, conâ€" trollers and mayor as well. The name of Britain‘s wartime leader became available when the existing Churchill Park was renamed St. Clair Reservoir, a move seen by some to reduce objections to the police radio tower planned for that site. informed The meeting instructed the borough‘s legal counsel to investigate the situation and to take such action as was necessary to keep the council fully informed on the progress of the developer‘s plans Cherrywood _ Avenue between Valewood Avenue and Vaughan Road; â€" authorized construction of a sidewalk from Corbett Avenue to Alliance Avenue; In future the departments will show a markup of 60 percent for the work force, 35 percent for clerical, 15 percent on material and three per cent on rented equipment. â€" authorized closing and selling of Vicâ€" dave Street; â€" will ask the Bureau of Municipal Research to prepare a report on the borough‘s parks; â€" provided $500 for the staff Christmas dinner December 24th. Communications charges rate at .63 per cent but ‘"inclement weather‘‘ is six times as significant and rates in at 3.5 percent. SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS a OAKE iNTEANAT ONAL company Mrs. Weatherall then threw the meeting open for discussion and ideas from the floor. Some interesting comment from party workers may well produce a winning formula for the future and one thing seemed assured at the meeting: Doug Saunders will seek the party‘s nomination in subsequent elections in York South. CALL 247â€"8287