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Dr. J. Alan Bull was chosen Campaign Chairman for the Weston swimming pool financial eampaign at a meeting of the Citizens‘ Committee held last Wednesday night, October 17th in the Lions‘ Hall at the Weston Arena. Dr. Bull was given authâ€" ority to appoint assistants to help eonduct the campaign which is now to proceed under his leaderâ€" A Publicity Dinner was planâ€"/the cost. > ned to be held last night nt| Mrs. Lynch pointed out which representatives from 70 from the start the Committee erganizations in the town and{been told emphatically by M district were invited to attend.|Clerk and Council that : The purpose of the dinner was could not expect financial | to acquaint the people with the/from the municipality, and firdings of the ways and means|urged that plans for the c eummittee, the proposals for the|paign be proceeded with. swimming pool and other inforâ€"| Next step to be taken is to mation on the project. Hosts for|a nominating committee na the dinner were the Lions Club|at the Publicity Dinner to . of Weston. More details of this|gest a permanent board to r dinner will be published nextiage the swimming pool ¢ week. paign, and be authorized to A report of the Ways andi (Continued on page 11) Gord. Alcott Named President For 1957 Weston Kiwanis Gordon Alcott, Weston inâ€" surance agent was elected Presiâ€" dent of the Kiwanis Club of Weston for the year 1957 at the regular meeting of the club on Tuesday. Oliver Stewart was the unanimous choice for the office of viceâ€"president. Bert Roe, who had previously been nominated for president declined because of business reasons. The seven directors of the club for the year 1957 were elected as follows. Ted Robertson, Eddie Morris, Bob Killingbeck, Andy Hodge, Wally Denike, Bert Roe, and Alf Bird. The Citizens‘ Committee was wholeheartedly in favour of the eonstruction of a swimming pool for Weston and district and repâ€" resentatives of many organizaâ€" tions signified the willingness of their groups to assist with fund raiging activities. / President Dennis Neville anâ€" nounced that the 40th anniverâ€" sary of the Kiwanis Club in Canada will be celebrated at Hamilton early in November, coinciding with the Hamilton club‘s own 40th anniversary. Secretary Oliver Stewart read a letter: of invitation from the Hamilton club and said he had tickets for any members wishing to attend the event on Novemâ€" ber 6th. Viceâ€"President Bert Roe preâ€" sented the fellowship prize and Wally Denike was asked to perâ€" form two duties, collect as Sgt.â€" Atâ€"Arms and lead the singâ€"song. Then members Alf Bird and Eight Acres Seeded In Cruickshank Park During the past season, eight acres at the north end of the Cruickshank Park have been eultivated and seeded, Recreaâ€" tion Director Val Hill told the ‘Times and Guide this week. This is part of the programme to restore the park to usefuiness, he said. He hopes that the parks department will be able to conâ€" tinue this programme next year. Parts of the other Weston parks have been seeded, also, he edded. School children of Weston are looking forward to another Hallowe‘en ‘treat on Wednesâ€" day, October 31st, and the Wesâ€" ton Police are anticipating anâ€" ether quiet "Shellâ€"Out" night. Organized by the Weston Reâ€" ereation Commission with the asâ€" sistance of the school staffs, the Weston Board of Education and the Weston Home and School Association, the programme will provide for, some 2,500 elemenâ€" tary and secondary school stuâ€" dents from all schools in Wesâ€" USE %TON OF CANDY Plan "Shellâ€"Out" Parties For Weston Children Dr. J. Alan Bull Named Pool Campaign Chairman Pupils of King Street public school will hold their party at the weston Senior public school on Raiph Street. Memorial school pupils will enjoy their party in their own school. Pupils of grades one to six in St. John‘s Separate school will hold their party in the basement parish hall of St. John‘s RC. church next to the school. The parties the kindergarten children, parâ€" ties will be held in the school during school hours. There will be fmovies, costume parades, and fces cream and cookies will be Campaign To Proceed Vol. 65, No. 43 For the youngest age group, 34 Main N.â€"500 Main N. CH. 1â€"9131 Means Committée headed by chairman, John Watson was apâ€" proved by the Citizens‘ Commitâ€" tee. Other members of the Ways and Means Committee were: T. E. Boultbee, Jack Burgess, Norâ€" man Groat, J. Harris, Robert MacPherson, Mrs. C. J. Lynch, and W. V. Hill, secretary. Bill Ketcheson presented a sugâ€" gested project to the club, asking that they consider sporsoring the Westeen, a teen age dance club for Weston. The club was told that the Westeens was originalâ€" ly formed by the Weston YWCA. but had grown too large for this rnd had to hold its dances in the Weston Collegiate and Vocaâ€" tienal School. At present the dances were being held every three or four weeks under the sponsorship of the Weston Reâ€" creation Commission. Mrs. Lynch pointed out that from the start the Committee had been told emphatically by Mayor Clerk and Council that they could not expect financial help from the municipality, and she urged that plans for the camâ€" paign be proceeded with. Councillor Gordon Moore, sugâ€" gested that council might yet find a way to give grants to the pool fund and James Weir, a former Weston councillor and representâ€" ing the Weston Legion branch urged that the question of the town paying for the swimmirig pool be put to the people to ‘strengthen the hand of counâ€" cil" if they wished to debenture the cost. > Next step to be taken is to have a nominating committee named at the Publicity Dinner to sugâ€" gest a permanent board to manâ€" age the swimming pool camâ€" paign, and be authorized to acâ€" The treasurer of the club, Ken Hagtings answered the questions of ‘some of the club â€"members, and the meeting was very imâ€" pressed with his appearance and with the manner in which he satisfied their queries, A meetâ€" ing of the Board of Directors was held immediately after the meetâ€" ing to discuss the sponsorship of the group. The elections for the officers (Continued on Page 2) Council To Meet Monday, Oct. 29 A small electorateâ€"about 34 per centâ€"gave Mr. Rowntree 11,061 votes and an Ontario Legâ€" islature seat. Lynn Williams, CCF polled 6,068 and Liberal Arthur Nagels trailed with 4,535. Leslie Rowntree, 42, a marine lawyer, last Thursday planted the Progressive Conservative banner firmly in York West rid< ing in a byâ€"election which left partyâ€"power unchanged. Liberal leader Farquhar Oliver had ‘no comment‘ on the results. CCF leader Donald MacDonâ€" ald said the byâ€"election reflécted the political opinion across the province that his party was the ‘spirited opposition.‘ â€" PC Wins York West Election Only Small Percentage Vote An ice skating party will be the treat for pupils of the Wesâ€" ton Senior school and the grade seven and eight pupils of St. John‘s school. This party will be held at the Weston Arena courâ€" tesy of the arena management and the Weston Lions Club. will all be held between 7 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. and Recreation Director Val Hill asks parents to provide transportation to and from the schools for their childâ€" ren. The next regular meeting of the Weston municipal council is to be held on Monday, Ocâ€" tober 29th, at 8 p.m in the Council .Chambers .in .the Town Hall (entrance on Litâ€" tle Ave.). The meeting is an open one and amy resident of Weston may attend to see how the town‘s business is conducted. And Premier Frost had a simâ€" All the elementn;y school Among the entertainers at the school parties will be Seppo Leivo, Finnish juggler, Harold Bee, equilibriumist, Ted Reist, ventriloquist And Peter the iClown. EVEN THOUGH THE LOCAL SCHOOL RUGBY TEAM haven‘t given us mus to root for so far this season, there‘s always the cheerleading team to give a c heer for, especially when its composed of such pretty young students of Weston Collegiate and Vocational School as Corinne ‘Cooling, left, Barbara Elsworth, Mary Jane Lenney, Marjorie Knapp, Bonny Wardlaw and Lavra Lambi. (Absent for photo â€" Vicki Bunda.) Photo by Terry Harvey Already exâ€"students of the school have contacted the two conveners with pictures. books, costumes and speeches they made on some historic occasion. And there must be plenty more Mr. Rowntree established his lead early in the race, even takâ€" ing Thistletown, the home disâ€" trict of the Liberal candidate. He polled more votes than his two opponents and almost 5,000 more than the second contender, Mr. Williams. All candidates expressed disâ€" appointment that the voting reâ€" sponseâ€"21,664 â€" ballotsâ€"was â€" so small a percentage. By the time the Weston Colâ€" legiate and Vocational School celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in October of 1957, two members of the staff will be experts on the history and events of the school over the past 100 years. They are Miss Dora Wattie, who is convener of the historical committee for the Centennial, and Miss Marjorie Campbell,~ convener of the muâ€" seum. Under Miss Wattie‘s guidance, a history of the school with picâ€" tures will be published. Miss Campbell is supervising the setâ€" ting up of a museum filled with items of interest pertaining to the school in the period of 1857 to 1957. The byâ€"election had been calâ€" led to fill the seat of the late PC member, Elmer Brandon, who wrested it from the CCF in the 1955 general election. ple ‘very gratifying‘ reaction to this PC landslide. children will be given "shellâ€" out" bags, Women of the Wesâ€" ton Home and School and of the St. John‘s C.W.L. will make hundreds of these bags from threeâ€"quarters of a ton of candy, and 16 bushels of apples. Square dancing will be the programme for the junior colâ€" legiate students (grades nine and ten). In the W.C.V.S. cafeâ€" teria between 8 p.m. and 11.30 p.m., Stan Keyes and his orchâ€" estra will provide the square dance music. Older high school students are invited to a Sock Hop at the colâ€" legiate gymnasium. John Baird and his orchestra will play for the Hop which will begin at 8.30 p.m. and close at 11.45 p.m. The Westeens and the student council of Weston Collegiate and Vocational School will superâ€" vise the Sock Hop and the Wesâ€" ton Y.M.C.A. will provide the chaperons and the checkers. Old Snapshots, Books, Costumes Sought For WCVS Anniversary _ Begin Excavation For Municipal Buildin WOODBRIDGE Cimes amn Guile | > Let‘s Give A Cheer For Pretty Cheerleaders In October of 1945, he returned to Moffats as sales representative in Toronto. Two years later he became distributor representaâ€" tive in the Maritimes and three Prairie Provinces; he was then appointed electric merchandising manager; general sales manager in 1949; executive assistant to the president in 1950. The dream of many an office boy â€" to become the manager of the firm for which he is working â€" can come true. The reality is the story of a Weston boy, Cecil A. Winder who rose from office boy to viceâ€"president and general manager of Moffats Limited. 33 Acres North Of Highway 401 To Be Parkland He then went into business for himself for about a year, operating a car and appliance dealership in Newmarket He MWhat were the rungs on this amazing ladder of success? After working as an office boy for a little time (at a starting salary of $8 a week) he served successâ€" icely as assistant time keeper, invoice clerk, sales order clerk, assistant purchasing agent, and priorities officer before joining the Canadian Army. C. A. Winder Miss Wattie is particularly looking for pictures of the school at various stagesâ€"the original school on King Street, the new one built on the same site after the fire, and the different stages of the present building on Wilâ€" liam Street. She wants class picâ€" tures;~ storfes" of amusing \élass incidents, _ snapshots _ showing dress styles of the different years, old newspapers that might have some school news such as the Times and Guide or the Junction Leader prior to 1925. And she is also anxious to talk to anyone who might be able to give her Began In ‘36 As Office Boy Now Firm‘s Viceâ€"President of these piecesâ€"of history packed away in some attic or steamer trunk. After months of negotiations, Etobicoke has purchased 33.083 acres of the old Pine Point Golf property on the norgh side of Highway 401 for park purposes. The purchase was authorized by Council from the Ontario Department of Highways at a cost of $42,170.90 â€" the cost to the department, plus interest, insurance and legal expenses. \ The Department of Highways (Continued on page 11) NVB# T UTC MT. DENNIS COMMUNITIES IN ETOBICOKE aAND NOR YOrk THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1956 _ Cecil Winder is the oldest of four brothers. Two of his broâ€" thers are well known in Weston â€" Cliff Winder who operates Winder‘s Taxi, and Howard Winder who operates a service station. The third brother, Robâ€" ert Winder is a tool and die deâ€" signer with a California firm of consulting engineers. Born in Weston, Mr. Winder was educated at Memorial public school here and at Weston Colâ€" legiate and Vocational School. It was in November of 1943 that he married a girl whom he had first met at W.C.V.S., Margaret Adams, whose home was on King St. Mr. and Mrs. Winter, and their three children, Penny, 11, Lynn, 9 and Allan, 7 now reside on North Drive in Etobiâ€" coke. : Much of this success must be attributed to Mr. Winder‘s qualiâ€" ties of initiative, drive, energy and a tremendous capacity for work. returned to Moffats on January Ist, 1955 as assistant general manager; was . made â€" general manager of the appliance diviâ€" sion in June Of the same year, and in December he was made responsible for the overall sales activities of the appliance and radfo and television divisions of the company. In March of this year,, he bacame general manâ€" ager of the company. _ If anyone has any such inforâ€" mation they are asked to conâ€" tact Miss Wattie at the school or at home. 189 Church Street, CH. 1â€"9065, or Miss Campbell at the school or home, 190 King Street, CH. 1â€"3855. * And, of course, the committee is looking for addresses of exâ€" students. These should be sent to R. S. Scott, chairman of the Cenâ€" tennial membership committee, in care of the school. Anyone having addresses of exâ€"students no longer in this vicinity are urged to send them along to Mr. Scott. Due to the rapid growth of the northwest section of Greater Torâ€" onto, a new telephone exchange, to be known as MElrose, will be created next March, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada announced this week. The new â€" telephone service erea wil be made up of parts of the areas now served by the CHerry, STerling andâ€" BAldwin exchanges. When the MElrose Miss Campbell is lodking for old school pictures, costumes, exercise and text books, report cards, exam papers, coins and stamps, school uniforms, old isâ€" sues of the Conning Tower. help on the floor plan of the old schools. To Open New Phone Exchange To Meet Area‘s Rapid Growth Mayor At The Throttle To Scoop First Load From The Building Site lexchange opens, about 5,000 |\STerling, 1.200 CHerry and 150 fBAIdwin subscribers will have ‘their telephones transferred to ‘the MElrose exchange, and they will have MElrose numbers. Technicians have atready beâ€" gun the monthsâ€"long task of inâ€" {stalling complex dial switching |equipment in the recently comâ€" pleted exchange building on Acâ€" ton Avenue in North York | Township. After the 150 BAldwin teleâ€" phones are transferred to MEIâ€" rose, it will be possible for users of those telephones to dial to, or be dialed directly rrom ail Torâ€" onto, BAldwin, HIckory, Cherry, BElmont, CLifford, AVenue, BUtâ€" ler _ and ATwater telephones. However, present CHerry and STerling subscribers will have the same local calling area after the transfer as at present. i All MElrose numbers will be in the Toronto telephone direcâ€" tory which will be delivered next March. Present BAldwin teleâ€" phone numbers to be changed will appear in the January, 1957, edition of the Toronto Suburban North directory, while the 1,200 CHerry numbers will be listed in the Weston directory t6 be isâ€" sued early in November. ‘ This paving will not be deâ€" layed by Metro water main proâ€" gramme in Weston as this is all but completed, Metro Waterâ€" works official Doug Dougherty told the Times and Guide early this week. He said that all that remained to be done in Weston was the completion of valve chambers at the railway tracks Mayor Harry Clark operated the power shovel scooping out the first shovelâ€"full of earth as work began yesterday on the excavation for the new Weston municipal building. The new municipal building is to be constructed on the site of the temâ€" porary parking lot between the fire hall and the present town hall on Main Street. / Upon completion of the building, it is plan the old town hall to provide parking space for ployees. Estimated to cost a little over $300,000, the new municipal building will accommodate the administration offices of the Weston Public Utilities Commission as well as of the town. It will also house police offices, cells and garage, rooms for Recreaâ€" tion Commission offices and activities, a council chamber, building and works department offices, health department offices and other facilities. Works and parks department employees of Weston were preâ€" paring the site for the contracâ€" tors on Tuesday. Following the closing of the parking lot, shrubs and sod were removed from arofnd the lot and transplanted in one of the town parks. The contract for the new town hall was awarded by council to Graham and Sibbett Company Limited and the architects are Albarda and Housom of Weston. LAWRENCE PAVING Work on the paving of Lawâ€" rence Ave., west of Main Street, failed to begin on Monday as was expected but Mayor Harry Clark expected the contractor tg have his crew in full swing by today and to finish on scheâ€" dule, he told this newspaper. Twa benches which were locaâ€" ted in front of the parking lot were also removed. It is anticiâ€" pated that fill from the excavaâ€" tioun for the town hall will be used for the Bellevue Ave. parkâ€" ing lot. (The Wilby Cres. lot is reported to be partially comâ€" pleted and open for parking.) lelephone CH. 1â€"§21) s s en o Wednesday, October 24, the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, was observed in many ways in may countries. The Toronto Branch of the United Nations Association in Canada observed the Day by arranging for a flagâ€"raising ceremony at the City Hall at 12 noon on October 24, an interâ€" denominational church service at Timothy Eaton Memorial church on Sunday, October 28, at 3 p.m., followed by the anâ€" nual reception and tea for overâ€" seas students at the University of Toronto from 4â€"6 p.m.; ard a luncheon in conjunction with the Canadian Club o Monday, October 29, witn Dr. Hugh L. Keenleyside as speaker. Special WCVS Assemblies Held _ Marking United Nations Birthday Pelmo Park Public School can be reached by travelling EAST on Oak Street from Main Street North or WEST from Jane on Pelmo Crescent. Readers can make a definite appointment to give blood by calling the North York Red Cross at BA. 1â€"1322, CH. 1â€"0268 or BA. 1â€"3946. Transportation to clini be arranged if require children will be capably for while parents donate and at the shaft near the Humâ€" ber bridge. He said that about 30 per cent of the pipe has been installed already in the tunnel under the Humber River and the remainder was now being inâ€" stalled. The pipe from west of the Humber River to Royal York Road has been laid. Completion of the water main installation is expected by the second week in November. At Northwestern, Queensway and Scarborough General hosâ€" pitals, patients receive all blood transfusions entirely FREE OF CHARGE. This same service is given to patients in Sunnyâ€" brook Veterans‘ hospital and the Toronto hospital for Tuberâ€" culosis. This service is possible only because voluntary donors give blood at Red Cross Blood Donor Clinics. Weston â€" Downsview Residential Canvass Reaches 56 Per Cent. Heading Metro Appeal Division Up to last Friday morning, the Westonâ€"Downsview residenâ€" tial canvass had achieved 56 per cent of its goal and was beâ€" lieved to be heading the Resiâ€" dential Division of the United Appeal. Mrs. W. C. Moffat, chairman of the Westonâ€"Downsâ€" Hold Blood Clinic In Pelmo Tonight is planned to demolish municipal emâ€" to eclinics can required, and capably cared 28 MAIN N., CHerry 1â€"3549 |»® Four Children Are Orphaned : After Slaying | members. Started In School ~ Lutheran Church â€"| Dedicated On 14th â€" result ‘of a double, President of the Student Coun»> cil, Brock West, introduced the Executive of the United Nations Ciub at the school; then® its president, Margaret Sainsbury, spoke briefly and introduced the film, "Workshop. for Pegce," which took the students on a picture tour of United Nations Headquarters, New â€" YÂ¥qrk, Among other things she ~reâ€" minded the students that the 76 countries which are mem« bers of the United Nations com= prise about 85% of the total population of the world. _ AÂ¥: announced elsewhere, the Wesâ€" ton Council of Women will hold . ! an Open Meeting on Monday, October 29, in Creelman H:i with Mrs. Wm. Tucker speak= ing on." How Canadians Help :. the United Nations." â€" which both their mother and father died. Â¥vonne, 9, Douglas, 8, Richard, 6, and Kenneth, 2, were the children of Mr. and Mrs. James Middleton 205 Pelâ€" latt Ave., North York. Mrs. Joan Middleton, 26, was shot and killed by her estranged husband about 9 a.m., Tuesday, in the hall of the home. Jim"Midâ€" dleton, 28, then turned the :.22 rifle on himself and died at $.15 p.m. that afternoon in Northwesâ€" tern General Hospital. He had been employed at DeHayilland Aircraft. m Meeting recently to review the campaign and make plans for the final push were Eric A. Western, Viceâ€"Chairman of the North York and Weston Camâ€" paign Coordinating Committee; Tom Graham, Chairman; Char» les S. Watson, well known leadâ€" er of charity drives; and Fred C. Stinson, Chairman of the North York Board of Education and a Viceâ€"Chairman of <the North York United Appeal. The four children had been taken to a Maple, Ont., honie last week to be boarded while the couple attempted to settle their differences. Contributions to the. Metroâ€" politan Toronto campaign have exceeded more than half of the objective of $7,198.511. Returns to last week totalled $3,600,455 or 50.1% of the goal. Reports from the Corporate Special Gifts and â€" Individual and Professional divisions were encouraging. The Corporate Gifts division, with a quota of $3,100,000, reported a totgl .of $2,170,037, or 70 per cent of its goal. The Individual and Proâ€" fessional division has raised $359,563 or 65.3 per cent of its objective of $550,511. * Mrs. George Payton, Pelmo Cres., mother of the slain woman, said the trouble had centred om Middleton‘s heavy drinking, and his abusive treatment of his wife when he was drunk. a Mrs. Middleton had been emâ€" ployed on the Times and Guide a few years ago and was well thought of by her fellow staff North York had raised 48.2 percent of its objectiveâ€"$85,068. The four sections have reported returns as follows: Mrs. K B. Harris, $15,259; Mrs. D; S. Hoare, $20,896; Mrs. F. C. Walâ€" lace, $3,939; and Mr. Edward Hav, $845. view Residential canvass stated that some $6.886, had been reâ€" ported up until Friday mornâ€" ing. The total residential ob= jective for the area is $12,35%2. On Sunday, October 1 iwiour‘s â€" Lutheran . chut