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A New Landmark In Weston‘s History We are now going to beâ€" come part of a municipality which had its inception under the Municipal _ Corporations Act of Robert Baldwin‘s Govâ€" ernment in 1849. At that time, York Township was a member of the Home District with Franklin Jackes 1944 Weston Road Opposite John Street Weston, Ont. CH 11911 Once again the Town of Wesâ€" ton |has arrived at another landmark in its history. Dear Sir, Editorial Page They Want To Increase Dad‘s Taxes Page 2 â€" THE WESTON TIMES â€" Thursday, December 15, 1966 Barrister â€" Soliciti Notary Public Evenings by appoint 1938 Weston Rd. (at John St.) Weston CH 4â€"5697 BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS Howard G. Ashbourne, BA. Carl W. Caskey, B.A., Q.C. 2077 LAWRENCE AVE. W. (Just West Of Weston Rd.) If therefore, education taxes are transferred from homes, apartments and factories, it must be concluded that the head of every Metro family Their only source of income is through income, sales and excise taxâ€" es, and as any Grade sixer should know, it is the family man. in the $4,000 to $10,000â€"aâ€"year bracket who pays 90 per cent of these levies. _â€"_ In Metropolitan Toronto, public education is a $200 millionâ€"aâ€"year business. Alfred H. Herman B.A., Q.C. Unquestionably, education costs are getting out of hand and $200 for schools and teachers‘ salaries on a total $400â€"aâ€"year householder tax bill is quite a bite. The provinces and Federal govâ€" ernment do not have the "broad and lucrative tax fields‘‘ the municipal politicians so fondly speak of. But, what can the newly elected mayors, controllers and aldermen exâ€" pect to. accomplish by , transferring this tax load from property to the working man‘s already overly taxed wages? j The majority of candidates in last week‘s municipal elections, pledâ€" ged that if elected, they would cut the municipal tax bill in half by inâ€" sisting that the Ontario Government should take over the lion‘s share of education costs. Letter Fraser & Simms Barristers â€" Solicitors WESTCON TRAVEL SERVICE 1912 Weston Rd. â€" WESTON, QONT. â€" 247â€"6677 BOOK NOW AND AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT ASHBOURNE and CASKEY GQO/ING QVERSEAS ? Solicitor Public appointment Professional â€" Business Meston Times Telephone CH 1 â€"5211 Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawz, Ont., and for payment of postage in cash SUBSCRIPTION BATES $5.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Phone 244â€"5324 BARRISTERS Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thiursday V. J. McMillan, President and Publisher J. M. Jordan, General Manager B. M. Holmes, Editor (In The Westlaw Bldz.) George W. Bull Mt. Dennis as her first reeve. The first councils of the Township met in the various hotels on Yonge St. in the Village of Eglinton and the clerk and treasurer were government appointees. At this time in the Township of York, Weston representaâ€" tive W. Tyrrell was chosen to represent the town on Counâ€" cil and for 27 years was at the tiller of the young Townâ€" ship Council, and probably Other countries $6.00 Barrister and Solicitor Suite 202 The Westlaw Bldg. 1920 Weston Rd. Weston, Ontario CH 4â€"5547â€"8â€"9 Piano Tuning And Repairing )ennis RO 3â€"2841 Work Guaranteed Wm. A. Riggs 1230 Jane Street MUSIC memeemacont Before the elected politicians conâ€" tinue their hollering for a provincial education takeover, they should sit down. studv the facts and then show how the job can be done without inâ€" creasing per family taxes $300 to $400 a year. There may be a way to ease the education tax bhurden. If there is howâ€" ever, it certain‘ly wasn‘t mentioned by any of the municipal candidatés durâ€" ing the Dec. 5 elections. It is generally agrseed that the present education tax setup places an awesome burden on the homecwner and apartment tenant. But how will this problem ba solved by transferrâ€" ing the entire load onto the consumer, who does after â€"all, live in a taxed home or a taxed highâ€"rise building? Perhaps they know that one of the surest ways of being kicked out of office forever and a day is to raisge income and sales taxes to heights not even reached during the war years, when Canada was mainâ€" taining an army of a million men and women. will find sales and income taxes rising another $300 to $400 a year to make up the difference. _ : â€" Why haven‘t the senior governâ€" ments taken this step already, when there is so much pressure for them to do so? Walter‘s Garage FULL GUARANTEE Motor & Autematic Repair Wheel Alignment . $9.50 FREE Courtesy Car. Pickâ€"up 1778 Jane St. CH 7â€"6590 Weston Weston served as Reeve and Deputy Reeve longer than any other person. May they at some future time be able to place their hand on the tiller and steer our Borough of York in the right direction. My congratulation to our aggressive young representaâ€" tives from our Town of Wesâ€" ton who gained a seat in the recent elections in the Borough of York. ACCOUNTANTS Chartered Accountants Marsh, Goulding Chartered Accountant 1730 Weston Road C. W. LEASK 1969 Weston Road GARAGES Yours truly, Charles H. Gardner, 22 Robert Street, Weston, Ontario. SKYLINE HOTEL BRANCH 655 Dixon Road, Rexdale, Ontario Phones 241â€"3522 Res. 241â€"2891 Member TOron.to Stock Exchange S. J. BROOKS & CO. CB 1â€"1129 CH 4â€"6061 rectory . Harry Frogley, manager. The Story of Expo 67 can now be seen on television. Every week CBCâ€"TV (Tuesdays 5:30 to T:00 p.m. EDT) devotes a half hour to the Exhibition, summariâ€" zing the latest developments, visiting the site and talking to Expo officials, B. Arch. M.R.ALC. ARCHITECT Complete blueprinting and : photocopying service. 1970 Weston Rd., Weston Off. 244â€"3516 _ Res. 244â€"7387 Scarlat Albright, O.D. Alexander A. Lasko Optometrist 2036 Dundas St. West (Dundas â€" Keele) Evenings By Appointment 766â€"2946 ® In Torontc, 62 per cent of the people voted for other candidates and yet William Dennison is mayor when he only, got 38 per cent of the popuâ€" lar vote. : If one considers the conscientious care taken by the ballot printer, reâ€" turning officer, deputy #eturning ofâ€" ficer, and poll clerks to comply with every letter of the election laws, it is difficult to understand how the Onâ€" tario government and municipalities can be so careless and allow many candidates to step into office with far less than 50 per cent of the popular vote. ®© East York‘s True Davidson was also elected mayor with far less than half of the popular vote. Despite all the propaganda to the effect that Canada is one of the most democratic countries on earth, this newspaper contends that we are anything but democratic â€"â€" at least not at the municipal level. Consider these facts: @ A total of 28,765 Etobicoke residents voted against Edward Horâ€" ton Dec. 5, and yet he was elected mayor. with only 21,594 votes. One and possibly the best means of solving this affront to the voter, is to establish a preferential voting sysâ€" tem such as they have in France, Ausâ€" tralia and at the local level, in British Columbia. In Etobicoke for instance, since three candidates were contesting for the mayor‘s job, the voters should J. R. Curriec, 0.D. 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In elections such as in North York and York were Jim Service and Jack Mould received the popular supâ€" port of 70 to 80 per cent of the peopâ€" le, the present system works fine. But in cases where minority mayors, conâ€" trollers and aldermen are elected, the system is terribly unjust to the voter and the candidate who is public spiritâ€" ed to run for office. A preferential system â€"would completely remove this inequity. The chief objection to this proposal is that it would be too difficult for the voter to understand. It is our firm view that this lins of reasoning is only . valid, if it is found that the Metro voter has only half the brains of his counterpart in France, Australia and British Columâ€" bia. This way. if the majority of Berry supporters are of the opinion that Johnson would make a better mayor than Horton, Johnson would get their second vote, and in all likeliâ€" hood would have been elected the new mayor. As the election system exists today, all 10,899 who voted for Berry performed an exercise in futiâ€" lity, wasted the effort necessary to mark their ballots and wasted the time taken to go to the polls. If their first choice happened to be Thomas Berry who got the least amount of votes, they should have had a second choice which would be Edward Horton or Murray Johnson. have been given a first and second, choice for mayor. _B2 _ 97 41@ G?,, & g * 3 23 > ‘_fl;f . "'-’(.“: ANNNYP & F RSy. e C k t o. e td Ti m Mc e s Eon Sverath us The TIMES editorial agreed with Mr. Heenan. a past president of the 4,000 member of the Toronto Real Estate Board. that subways spark massive development, and thereâ€" by eliminate the necessity of legitimate builders ripping down homes in sound residential areas to obtain land cheap enough to build on. I agree with Mr. Heenan too. (Continued on Page 3) C f As things now stand, speculators are holding onto great, huge chunks of Yonge St., property occupiecd by one and two story, rundown, 19th Century buildings, which should have been ripped down years ago and replaced with skyscapers for people to live and wgrk in." + The TIMES suggests, and I fully agree, that the soluâ€" tion would be to charge taxes based on the real value of land. thus making it unprofitable. in fact impossible, for the speculator to hold the land off the market for five. 10 or 20 years, until a builder comes along and pays the real killing. j & sls Both newspapers agreed that: Mr. Heenan‘s propOsal® are manifestly practical, and in fact, essential, if Metro ever hopes to avoid more fantastic tax increases like those experienced by home owners in the very recent past. _ , The TIMES however, went a stey further than the STAR by pointing out that unless some vital changes are made, land speculators will reap the main benefits of a Metropoliâ€" tan subway network. A subway system like the Yonge St. line, Mr. Heenan noted, increase> land values by hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars When speculators get hold of land annually going up by these amounts in value, then they are not going to let go until some lesgitiâ€" mate deyeloper comes along and cffers to line their pockets with gold. ‘ After all, it is the public that created the value of the land, by building the subway in the first place. The public therefore should derive the benefits through taxes from the subway ‘gold mine‘ because they were the ones who paid for it. : y in B1 3 Di S Te Lc 27 9 1. 2. tall shethe d itfi inb ied ol 0 Arwirns Similarly, the STAR warned: "It‘s (subway construcâ€" tion) an expensive program, but it offers big compensations in tax revenues and in quick, convenient, economical moveâ€" ment of people to work or play. Without action of this sort and scale, Metro Toronto may well face financial and traffic strangulation by automobiles." Both newspapers agreed that: Mr. Heenan‘s proposals are manifestly practical, and in fact, essential, if Metro ever hopes to avoid more fantastic tax increases like those experienced by home owners in the very recent past. _ , The TIMES however, went a stey further than the STAR by pointing out that unless some vital changes are made, land speculators will reap the main benefits of a Metropoliâ€" fam inkwanr natwarkâ€" A subway system:" like the Yonge. St. There are lots of Weston Times editorials that I dis agree with, but I am fully in accord with the one entitled "RAPID TRANSIT MAKES DREAMS POSSIBLE" which apâ€" peared on the front page two weeks ago. A week ago, the Toronto Star came out with a similiar editorial: "Give public transit 12 chance to win. The STAR, like the TIMES used Realtor Warren Heenans recent speech delivered in Cleveland as the basis for the editorial. Both newspapers reiterated Mr. Heenan‘s remarks that because of a public $67 million investment in the Yonge St. subway, literally billions of dollars in development has been the result, along with a return of tens of millions of tax dollars which the city so badly needs. In his speech, Mr,, Heenan also says that the $200 milâ€" lion Bloorâ€"Danforth subway . will spark more billions and billions worth of redevelopment â€" this time along both sides of the eastâ€"west subway. The TIMES, however, went a step further than the STAR phasis being placed on expressways and super highways for automobiles, instead of public transit, soon We will run out of land for people to live on. _ _ _ 5 peared on the front page two wCCR A week ago, the Toronto Star . editorial: "Give public transit a ch; like the TIMES used Realtor Warre delivered in Cleveland as the basis On Christmas day ried the first radio P Hanse!l and Gretel â€" from the Metropolitan Eest wishes for a Happy New Year Did you happen to see the item in newspapers not too long ago about the man in California who has collected 20,000 telephone books from all over the world? Actually, what appears to be just an unusual hobby is really a tool of this man‘s profession. He‘s a tracer of lost persons, and his library of telephone directories often helps him to track down missing persons for his clients. You can use your telephone book to track down things too. Things like Area Codes, emergency numbers, instructions for making all kinds of phone calls, and in the Yellow Pages, lists of dealers, products or services that you may be looking for. Canada‘s annual Safeâ€"Driving Week is over for anâ€" other year. By stressing defensive driving techniques during this week, the Canadian Highway Safety Council, hoped to make motorists aware of every known safe driving procedure so that they will better remember and practise them for the other 51 weeks of the year. We at Bell Canada â€" at least all of us who drive our own cars on business or the familiar green vehicles â€" well know the importance of driving defensively. All of us who do any driving as part of our work at Bell Canada must take and pass a pretty rugged Company course even though we have provincial driving permits. And, in recent years this course has stressed defensive driving. Really, defensive driving is little more than common sense. It means learning how to recognize potentially dangerous situations, learning how to avoid them, then putting this knowledge to use. Since 42 percent of the people surveyed in connction with The Canadian Drivers Test television program some time back failed the test, it seems that few people know where danger lurks. With winter setting in with its snowstorms, sleet, ice and subâ€"zero temperatures, defensive driving becomes more important than ever. Driver Improvement courses have been held in many parts of the country this year and more are planned for the months to come. Driving conditions have changed drastiâ€" cally since many of us received our first permits, and a fresh look at our driving habits could make motoring safer and more enjoyable on our crowded streets and highways. And, it could make for a happier holiday season, when so many people will be travelling to join families and friends for Christmas and New Years celebrations. That‘s The Way .. The People Build Subways To Make Speculators Rich 1as day, 35 years ago, telephone lines . radio brc%adcast of a complete opera ectel _ C care es ht e i Ade $ by Frazer Cache a very Merry SSAE B Db terihrtediv t 2t It was transmitted _ Opera House in New Mr. B. E. Brackenbury, pELL LINES your telephone manager Christmas followed by Area manager. coastâ€"toâ€"coast York.