The request may spark a major battle at council if Ward 5 Councillor Murâ€" ray Chusid continues to oppose the request .and \other‘ members take the In suggesting the request be refused, the _ township works commissioner reported . . . "this | department would not recomâ€"| mend that the Defence Research | Medical Laboratories be perâ€"| mitted to discharge radioactive | wastes into the sanitary sewer | system. The laboratory is locatâ€" | ed. on the R.C.A.F. Station, Downsview (DeHaviland). _ All sewage from this station is treat< . ed in ‘their own scwage treat ment plant on the east side of Keele Street rfear Maryport. Afâ€" ; ter treatment the effluent As t discharged ,into a _ watercourse which drains into the _ Black Creek. This effluent could conâ€" ceivably _ contain _ radioactive waste which could contaminate the watercourse." Despite evidence that minute | ‘cuantities of radioactive â€" waste } won‘t harm Metro‘s water supâ€" ply. Counï¬illor Chusid â€" said ‘f} the township amended its by.| law it wouldn‘t necessarily folâ€" | low that the ntw bylaw would | be enforced. The Downsview research cenâ€" tre wants council to amend its bylaw which forbids use of sew. ers for discharge â€" radioactive materials. t One of theseâ€"conditions is that "radioactive wastes shouldâ€" be mixed with water and diluted below the maximum permissible drinking water level before disâ€" charge" . . _ as laid down by the International Commission of Radiological Protection, he said. The township medical officer of health stated in a report to the works commiltee that he has no objection "to dispose of controlled amounts of radioactâ€" ive waste in the form of solutâ€" tions through the se;wers';'â€" proâ€" vided adequate safety pfecautâ€" ions are taken. Chusid stressed it would have to be conclusive proven to him that there is no possible chante of the radioactive waste contaâ€" minating the North York . syâ€" stem before he would even canâ€" sider the tequest. "Potentially the radioâ€" active material can be exâ€" tremely dangerous. I reâ€" alize that the research centre has to get rid of its waste. but we should have nositive proof before we let them use township sewers." Chnsid stated. "So far, neither council nor the works committee has any proof whotâ€"soâ€"ever that it will be safe to put this waste into the sewer system." he added. The application made by the medical research centre on Sheppard Ave. W. has already met onnoâ€" sition from the township works commissioners. wpposite viewpoint. The Defence Research| Medical Laboratories is seeking North York counâ€" cil‘s permission to dump radioactive materials in township sewers. (Continuzd on VOL. 5 in temporary classâ€"rooms, loan ed by the Toronto Hospital (Wes ton), one of the hospitals par Humber _ Memorial Hospital this year will launch a major construction program, aimed at meeting a substantial portion of suburban Toronto‘s current 2,000 bed deficit. The program involves both a regional 400â€"student day school for nurses, and an. expansion program which will more than double the present 325 bed hos pital, to a total of 800 beds. Charles E. Conroy, Chairman of the Governing Board, Osler School of Nursing, noted that the first class of this new nonâ€" residential school is being enâ€" rolled for September of 1966. The first year will pursue its studies RESEARCH CENTRE SEEKS OKAY TO DUMP RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN N. Y. SEWERS WANT ADS Until 12:30 Noon VWednesday Call 249â€"7641 For Home Delivery page 2) NO. 13 241 5211 y ut on o c aiene sn e e y ns had less than an even chance for survival. Although very alarmed about Gary‘s condition, Mrs. Hook had to controf her apprehension un til, after ‘examinations and tests at Northwestern Hospitatl and Princess _ Margaret _ Hospital, Gary was admilted to the Hosâ€" pital for Sick Children _ three days later. Anxious days followâ€" ed, and when Gary went into {M operation in April, 1963, he _ Early in 1963, when Gary was il few months old, his mother noticed that his stomach appear | ed to be somewhat distended, | although he did not fret nor cry ! a great deal. Nevertheless, to | ensure that her son had every | attention, Mrs. Hook mentioned | Gary‘s prominent stomach when she took him to the doctor‘s ofâ€" fice for a checkâ€"up. The doctor said little, but promptly sent Gary to a specialist. After a thoâ€" rough examination, this doctor ; recognized cancer as being the | cause of the swelling and told | Mrs. Hook immediately. Three ~Yearâ€"Old Gary Is Proof Cancer CGan Be Beaten Tomorrow is April first, Dafâ€" ; fodil Day! With his arms Iull[ of blooms for friends of the Caâ€"| nadion Cancer Society, here is? Gary Jamés Hook, son of Mr. and \irs. John Hook of Downs view, Ontario. The millions of daffodils bought tomorrow will put thousands ‘of dollars to work | saving lives of cancer sufferâ€" ers, both adults and children, just as Gary‘s life was saved , three years ago this April. | Last‘ year council _ rejected Metro‘s bid to build an 11â€"storey . senior citizen‘s apartment buildâ€" “ ing on Cummer. and two weeks ago the Ontario Municipal Board | also refused Metro‘s request. ] Metro then decided to appeal | | the OMB decision to the Ontario | | cabinet. | Since _ Metroâ€" is appearing, | council should endorse the apâ€" i peal, suggested Ward 5 Councilâ€" lor Murray Chusid. ‘ It passed a Board of Control recommendation to negotiate a Icwâ€"rise building on the Cummer site or else help Metro find a suitable alternate location. The suggestion raised hackles with _ the majority of council members stating the township can‘t very well endorse an apâ€" peal on something which‘ it opâ€" poses. Roadblocks thrown in. front of the Cummer Ave, Senior Citiâ€" zen housing project will cost Metro many hundreds of thousâ€" ands of dollars and will mean that oldsters who qualify will have ~to (Wait‘"‘several ~more years" before they can be acâ€" commodated, said Ward 2 Counâ€" cillor Joe Gould Manday. Metro Find Site For Old Folks Twp. Will Help â€" the day of Gary‘s SCHOOL AND 475 BED ADDITION 1O > _TRIPLE HUMBER HOSPITAL BLDGS. There will be a third internâ€" ship year, during w&ich students will be paid $250 per month durâ€" ing the first six months, and $300 per month during the final ticipating in the regional school. Commencement of construcâ€" tion of the new Osier School of Nursing is expected to begin in WESTONS Humber Memorial late autumn of 1966, on lands adjacent to Humber Memoria) Hospital. The program will bé a two year nonâ€"residential course, with students obtaining their clinical experience in the three present participating â€"hospitals, which include Northwestern Genâ€" eral Hospital. The project was announced at Humber Memorâ€" ia)‘s annual meeting held last week. Bleston Times > or eight years. We desperately | our neighbourh want this local improvement in | We have beci our sub division (west of Jane North York ov Street and north of Wilson) but | teen years and the dissenters always seem to vices of the v have their way. The petitions are | (Contmued Let us tell you of our situaâ€" tion. We have just signed a petiâ€" tion for storm sewers for the Your â€" editorial patâ€"onâ€"theâ€"back to the Pelme Park Ratepayers Association for their sewer plans, caught our eye this week. Twp. Should Install Sewers Even If Some Oppose: Reader Dear Sirs: ation, Mrs. _ Hook _ remembers spending the day in doing puzâ€" zles and painting, a}most meanâ€" ingless pursuits to her, anything to occupy eye and hand until the message should arrive from the hospital. The phone rang. The surgeons reported that they FITTING AWARD: Three senior lasâ€" ses in the Girl Guide Movement receivâ€" ed their Gold Cords from district comâ€" missioner Mrs. K. S. McDonald last week. From left they are Guide Pamela Sykes, Forthbridge Cres.; Cadet Cathy Lletters This is the fifth and final installment of a series of articles oif cancer prepared for The Times by Weston Cancer Unit writer Rose Hutchens When you read this story about Gary, we think that you too will wear a daffodil] toâ€" morrow. The Principal of the School is Miss Jacqueline Robarts, Reg. N., B.Sc., and the Members of its Governing Board are:â€" Cost of the construction and operation of the School will be financed by the Provincial Govâ€" ernment as part of its announced intention of doubling the output of graduate nurses by the year 1970. The Osler School of Nursâ€" ing will be the first of three large regional nursing schools in the Metropolitan Toronto area. six months. It is expected that the School will be enrolled to full capacity of 200 students per year, in each of the two years, by 1969.â€" Applicants with satisâ€" factory â€" acadcmic standing in Grade XIl are eligible for enâ€" trance. R | always rejected bechuse so many householders will not sign for OM_: badly needed improvement. Torim York over the past fif. teen years and find all their serâ€" vices of the very highest calâ€" (Contmued on page 2) wilt lm_mA o Hn v.m' V;;D;t; Our children have péssed the "‘ditch â€" prowling" s t a g e~ when they came home with mud from head to toss but we‘re still signâ€" ing those petitions because we feel the abolition of those ditches He did. Another six weeks of radium | treatments to _ ensure that cancer cells had not travelâ€" led to other organs. and Gary, had suqgessfully removed Gary‘s left kidney and they felt he might recover. We have become very fond of (Continued on page 3) WESTON, ONTARIO, THURSDXY, MARCH 31, a Guide can receive. For vé{(;ry“ O see Three Guides. Page 5. Ceremony was held at Tumpane Public school. Carmichael, Queens Dr. and Ranger Barbara McMullen, Epsom Downs. A Gold Cord is the most coveted award Dr. J. W. Hill, Member of the Governing Board, Humber Memâ€" orial Hospital; E. D. Rushbrook, Chairman, _ Governing _ Board, Humber Memorial; Mrs. Wim. Russell, Member, Board of Govâ€" ernors, _ Northwestern _ General Hospital: Dr. W. G. Watts, Medâ€" ical Officer of Health, Township of Etobicoke; Dr. C. A. Wicks. Superintendent, Toronto Hospital (Weston). H. Best, Assistant to the Pres ident, York University; Thomas Boone, Director of Education, Township of Etobicoke; Chairâ€" man, C. E. Conroy, Member of the Governing Board, Huntber Memorial; R. B. Ferguson, Adâ€" mmjsuafer,__yyn{yer Memorial; The earliest date on which the Weston‘s Mr. Minor Sports Organizer Stan Osborne (right) was honored at a testimonial dinner Monday. Presenting the trophy is Rd Fitkin, newly appoint. ed Public Relations Director of the Los Angeles N.H.L. franchise and Ernest 200 PAY TRIBUTE TO STAN OSBORNE jJor new school for "the educaâ€" tion of nurses," said Mr. Rushâ€" brook, ‘‘is a combination of proâ€" new 475 bed proposed addition to the Humber Memorial could be ready for patients, accordâ€" ing to E. D. Rushbrook, Chairâ€" man, Board of Governors of the Hospital, is early 1970. The two new wings will include a large psychiatric outâ€"patient mental health clinic, and . accommodaâ€" tion for 80 psychiatric inâ€"paâ€" tients. Included in the construcâ€" tion will be an extensive reâ€" habilitative physical _ medicine department, and a substantial number of the new beds will be convalescent rehabilitation beds. "This undertaking of a major expansion program, and a maâ€" | School Board Worst Citizen | In North York Charges Lund This week Doi;bin'resriréned in protest stating he would lose the respect of his staff. His resâ€" When the report, which quesâ€" tioned the administrative abilâ€" ity of Dobbin was presented to council last week, ecuncil voted to put the parks commissioner on six months probation. York township‘s Council of Ratepayers may back charges made by township parks comâ€" missioner Cedric Dobbin that a probe conducted by a consul® ing firm is a "complete whiteâ€" wash". § Lund contended at council if school board is refused permisâ€" A North York councillor chargâ€" ed Monday that the township school board is one of the worst civic citizens in the municipality. Councillor Ken Lund made the charge when school board asked permission to build an $85,000 addition to the board adminisâ€" tration building ~on~ ~Oakburn Crese. . (a_!l; Par!(s Probe A Complete Whitewash "Dobbin Crucified" ‘"Doc" Banting, Weston arena manager. Weston council members, N.H.L. hotâ€" key stars were among the huge trowd to laud Mr. Osborne‘s career of organâ€" izing minor sports in Weston. The cost of the proposed hosâ€" pital addition, according to Clark Wardlaw, Chairman of the Hosâ€" pital‘s Building Committee and Vieeâ€"Chairman of the Board, will be approximately 12 milâ€" lion doliars. He noted that beâ€" fore _ commencement, approval must be obtained by the Hosâ€" pital Planning Council of Metroâ€" politan Toronto, and the Ontarie Hospital Services Commission. grams which follows over two years of study by hospital conâ€" sultants, and our own hospital medical and administrative offiâ€" clals." It is aimed at constructâ€" ing and providing staff for a substantial proportion of the 3,â€" 500 additional hospital beds, subâ€" urban Toronto must have by 1970. _ He said property around the |present building is used to build | portable classrooms, park school | buses and reuair desks. Homeâ€" | owners in the area object to 'llnd in a residential district beâ€" ing used for industrial purposes (Continued on Page 5) A coroner‘s report recom mendirig steps to reduce the chances of children drowning in North York parks was termed "idiotic‘ by Reeve James Servâ€" ice at council Monday. 6a January 17, £yearâ€"old Wal ter Plobner slipped through the ice on Black Creek south_ of Calls Coroner‘s Report "Idiotic" Parertts Should Watch Children ignation has sparked a rash other_ staff resignations. Robert Hewett, president of the George Symes Ratepayers , stated ‘"‘Dobbin was crucified to | tion building, it would be forced to decide when and where its new headquarters would be built. sion to expand the/ administraâ€" of 1 A coroner‘s jury suggested to council that warning . signs should be posted in township park areas where there. are deep watercourses, said an eduâ€" cational program should be (Continued on Page 2) his Lawrence Ave. W. home drowned. save the face of one or two counâ€" cil members. We will give Mr. Dobbin all the support he deâ€" serves and get to the bottom of all this," he said. The ‘Times was informed late yvesterday the Metro Bill will be introduced at 3 p.m. It is expected at this writ ing that Weston will be anâ€" nexed to York township as Premier Robarts announced in January. Robarts said the 13 present Metro â€"municipalities will be consolidated into five borâ€" ronto. Members of the Governing Board, E. D. Rushbrook, Harry Clark, and Edward Ashton, were elected for further 3 year terms of office Westor May Join York Twp. This Afternoon Today is the day the Onâ€" tario government will introâ€" duce a bill in the Legislature to define Metro‘s new bounâ€" daries. beds. Its growth has reflected that of northwest suburban Toâ€" ronto, with two expansion proâ€" grams, the last of which conâ€" cluded two year ago bringing the bed total to 325 ly undertaken, Mr. Wardlaw noted, without substantia) finam» cial support from the municipal ities whose rcn‘-:. will be served, as well as Govern ments of Ontario and Canada. Humber _ Memorial Hospital was Toronto‘s first postâ€"war sub~ urban hospital, and commenced operations late in 1950 with 54 SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS The project cannot be successful. (Contnued on page 2) Memorial Hospital \ to‘s first postâ€"war sub~ ital, and commenced late in 1950 with 54 growth has reflected rthwest suburban Toâ€" ! two expansion proâ€" : last of which conâ€" > year ago bri.“.. the city of Toâ€"