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Planning board had recommended rezoning the four acre site from single family residential to highrise to permit 236 apartment units. Apartments _ OK’d by N. Y. Council was informed that a letter and a petition containing 16 signatures were filed in opposition to the application but it passed without comment. Mayor Jim Service, Controller Frank Watson and Aldermen Murray Chusid and John Booth all strongly contended that council should be reduced Approval was given to erect two lS-storey apartment buildings at the southeast corner of Jane St. and Grand Ravine Dr. by North York council Monday. Controllers saved by council An attempt to scrap board of control which had the support of at least two controllers was rejected by North York council Monday. Mr. White said that this should give assurance to taxpayers that the borough is working within the framework of the act and providing adequate sewers for the proposed redevelopment. INSPECTED FIRST Alderman James Trimbee pointed out to council that b e f o r e a n y n e w Nonsense, ago Boddington Mr. Cowan tells of watching untreated sewage floating past his Humber River property and says he places the health of residents in York before demands for more apartment suites. TO CONSULT OWRC Council on Monday agreed to Controller Philip White's proposal that the works and traffic‘committee ask for a consultation with the Ontario water resources commission to discuss York's redevelopment plans in relation to the storm sewer system. Mr. Boddington was referring to statements made by Ralph Cowan in a letter to the borough clerk H.G. Courtman. Mr. Cowan stated that York's present sewage collection system is woefully inadequate to handle' the amount of sewage and storm water that enters the system - particularly during and after a storm. AUGUST OVERFLOW He drew.attention to the August I968 overflow of sewage and storm water at Lavendar Rd. and Keele St., and at Leigh and Northland Avenues. Mr. Cowan said these overflows proved that no more toilets, bathtubs, sinks and hand basins should be connected with the sewer system until such time as the capacity of the system has been increased so that flooding will no longer occur after major or minor storms. Controller Wes Boddington at York council last week called the remarks made by Ralph Cowan a bunch of nonsense. "If you want answers to sewer problems ask the people who know", he said. 'Raw sewage floats in Humber' from l7 to no more than 12 members and that an executive committee should be picked from this group to assume powers now held by the board. They wanted council to ask Queen's park for permission to change the structure of council. But Aldermen Joe Gould, Bob Yuill and others succeeded in blocking the move, _ Step by steady step, M ay or Jim Service's' cherished dream of creating a Yonge St. civic centre north of Highway 401 comes closer to reality. F irst he convinced council to shell out development is allowed in the borough it must pass the inspection of Metro and the Ontario municipal board. Step' by step, civic centre grows VOL. 8 - NO. 4 Nursing. The winners of the Canadian Cancer Society's Miss Hope 1969 Contest were named at the Society's Seminar held at the Westbury Hotel last week. They are from left; the first runner-up Miss Judity Bergen, Whitby Psychiatric Hospital School of Nursing, Whitby, the winner, Miss Ruth Ann Campbell, 21 years old, attending St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, and representing Metro Toronto District; and the third runner-up is 18 year old Miss Valerie Williams, Ottawa Civic Hospital School of T he Ontario water Controller Gordon H u rlburt wanted the decision delayed until assurance could be received that the tower wouldn't play havoc with television and radio reception in North York. The mayor warned however that Bell Telephone is interested in $165,000 for consultants to determine if such a massive proposal is practical. Then he talked North York school board into building several-million-dollar headquarters complex in the redevelopment scheme. On Monday he talked council into rezoning a site just north of the municipal building for a 1,000 communications tower. resOurces commission, said works commissioner Colin Macdonald, is interested in seeing that stream pollution is kept to a minimum. Mr. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1969 N. Y. bans snowmobiles North York council was almost unanimous Monday in rejecting the use of snowmobiles in borough, parks despite a bid by Mayor' James Service to delay the decision. Controller'Frank Watson said bicycles, horses and motorcycles are banned from municipal parks and snowmobiles should be too. He urged that they be prohibited on school playgrounds too. being a prime user of the tower and wants a decision by Feb. 15 on whether the tower will be built. Service is hopeful that the Canadian Macdonald explained that York is trying something new in chlorination tanks and therefore is under close scrutiny of the OWRC. SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS Mayor Service said it was his "belief that you shouldn't stop all the fun in life". Thire's at possibility that the parks department may allow motorized tobogganing in some parks, he contended, and therefore it is restricting their use in the meantime. , it?""""'"""""""'"'?' Alderman John Williams said children, who are not even teenagers yet, ride the things in Noni: York parks and endanger their own lives as well as they of others. Broadcasting Corporation will also use it as a transmitting base rather than a proposed tower downtown. Canadian National has applied to the gmadian transport commission for an increase of 9.3 cents on its commuter fares between The brief signed by Cedarvale ratepayers' president Harvey Wengle and vice president Jules Berman opposes proposed redevelopment in the swank Heathdale Rd., Claxton Blvd. area. It quoted former Metro planner Eli Conny as stating that new apartments along Spadina only make sense "when the expressway and transit are there". in a brief to the planners, the Cedarvale ratepayers' association pointed out that the expressway may not be completed until 1983 and therefore "it is quite misleading (for . planning board) to tMint that the added traffic from such apartments will create no problem since it will be funnelled into the non-existent expressway and that many of the (future) apartment dwellers will not use cars but will instead make use of the non-existent rapid transit. How can cliff dwellers use non-existant expressway? It would be premature to break up one of York's finest residential areas for higltaz development simply because it happens to be near the proposed Spadina expressway borough planning board was told last night. Wilfred Grimbly, 36, of Dee Ave., Weston, told police he was north bound on Keele when the pedestrian stepped out of a heavy fog bank into the path of his car. Coroner Dr. John Saunders of Richmond Hill ordered the body removed to York Central hospital in Richmond Hill for a post mortem. Killed on #7 was killed Friday morning' as he walked south of Keele St. at Highway 7. Toronto and Weston effective March . l. The present fare of 25 cents per ride has been in effect for more than eight years, but the railway says this rate becomes more and more unreasonable as costs continue to rise." Annual revenues on the commuter trains in this service approximate $70,000, falling far short of operating expenses of $190,000. These are the only CN commutation fares still applying in the, Toronto area. The average number of passengers using the service daily, Mondays through Fridays, is 437 eastbound and 429 westbound. Antonio Trasolimio, 40, Elmwood Ave., a cement worker Pl his way to work, The proposed new tariff will establish a 40-ride ticket at $14 or 35 cents a ride. Over a comparable distance GO commuter service along the Lakeshore is 42 cents a ride. The TTC fare between downtown Toronto and Weston is 33 cents, but travel time is two or three times longer than the train.