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owe ho una y shopping edition touffmne vol 68 no 10 the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 1 1957 sixteen pages local men among group remanded in farm loan fraud case an itinerant laborer who never in 1952 and had been asked to owned a farm in court told apply for a loan which he said magistrate holltnrake how he white told him was to be used had filled out an application for to buy cattle he agreed be- a 2700 loan under the farm cause he seemed like a good improvement loans act turned head and said he would pay it the money over to his employer off and had been given 20 for his he and white had gone to the trouble bank of nova scotia in mark- thats the only thing i re- ham he said after discussing i ceived george mountenay is the forms that were to be filled of trenton told the court after out pleading guiity to a charge of at the bank white and ralph false pretenses furneaux rhe manager had mountenay was one of 25 per sons who appeared in court in newmarket to answer charges of false pretenses forgery and uttering some of the accused faced as many as 38 charges all connected with the loan act and involving more than st5000 the men not all of them farm- conferred in an inner office be fore he was called in according to the statement then he had given the answers johnny told me to give i didnt have to answer too many questions said mount- enays statement he said he had told of 60 acres ers were rounded up by the of leased land which he had not rcmp after two years of invest- leased nor had he ever owned igation all were remanded to the cattle mentioned in the ap- sept is or 25 only mountenay plication after the forms had entered a plea on july 29 but been filled in he said hoi some of the others elected trial thought he signed some of them by jury while others were re- 1 while they were blank a cheque mantled without election was made out a statement by mountenay i think it was made out to j given while he was a sweeper at i b white i dont think i evet camp borden was read by cpll signed the cheque the state- i t a mathews of the rcmp and ment read johnny cashed it confirmed by the accused right away and put the money he said he had started work- 1 in his pocket and we went out to ing for john b white markham his car after we got in he gave district implement dealer early continued on page 7 uxbridge bank holdup bandits get 20 years sentences of 10 and 12 years each were handed out to two bank robbers tuesday to back up good police work in ontario county magistrate frank ebbs said he hoped the sentences would have a deterrent effect on oth ers who are contemplating hold ups in the county harry richard hancox 32 was given two concurrent 12- year sentences and david quig- ley 30 was sentenced to 10 years hancox and quigley both of toronto pleaded guilty to the 4500 armed robbery of the ux bridge branch of the toronto- dominion bank july 2 hancox also pleaded guilty to the may 28 holdup of the picker ing branch of the bank of com merce magistrate ebbs commended uxbridge police chief graham chatterley and john swinson one of his constables for their courage in arresting the men patient attacks officer engagements a 35 year old 180pound men tal patient enroute to the ont hospital in toronto went ber serk in the rear of a markham township police cruiser on sun day afternoon and inflicted in jury to the right arm and face of sgt bill shearn sgt harvey cox answered an urgent call to unionville when the man went berserk and jump cd out of the car driven by his father sgt cox summoned addi tional assistance from sgt shearn and the patient was fin ally placed in the rear of the cruiser on the don mills road south of no 7 highway the man once again became violent when sgt shearn attempted to keep the patient from escaping out the door he was punched and kicked on the arm chest and face stunned by the blows the sergeant was unable to hold onto the man he jumped out of the slowmoving cruiser and ran through the ditch sgt cox jumped from the car and over powered the patient after he ran headlong into a wire fence he shareholders get report of good year from local arena company the annual meeting of the year came from the rental of shareholders of the stouffville icc time which brought in 11- arena co held in the arena 76166 public skating returned building on thursday night 151115 the snack bar had a heard a financial report which turnover of s110154s and revealed a good year for the netted about 2700 for the com- company and the debt of the company substantially reduced the stouffville arena company which had an original debt of some 25000 including the cost of the arena floor has reduced i that debt to less than 6000 dur ing its seven years operation some shareholders have high hopes of a dividend being de clared providing next years business is able to completely liquidate the company mort gage mr ken laushway president of the company during 195657 pany revenue from the rental of floor space in the summer- was 112325 in the expense column wages for the operation exclusive of the snack bar amounted to about 7000 the corporation of stouff ville came in for considerable revenue being paid nearly slooo for water power and municipal taxes least return was realized on the clipper hockey club where the profit to the arena company was less than 300 a vote of appreciation was tendered by the shareholders to and a charter member of the prcsilen laushway and the board reported to the share- a board for their handling holders on the years operation of vhe business mr laushway he pointed out the substantial retired from the board this year profit that had accrued the thc neu board of directors el- money paid to reduce the debt ecte was as foliows fred sj and the improvement of the fa- kle gar le les wfij cilities by the installation of a large new electric timeclock greatest income during the isoyil les clarke erie lehman liloy turner and herb hisey elaine forsyth right with brother harold in the centre children of mr and mrs floyd forsyth stouffville along with barbara winn daughter of mr and mrs walter winn mongolia are enjoying splash ing along the shore at cedar beach mussclmans lake reminisce on how the lake has local folks hold occasional changed in fifty ears family picnics at the lake and the older ones like to jim thoma leaves annual prize for entrance student the late dr gilbert f rich ardson of searboro and a native of stouffville provided that a reward be paid out of his estate probated yesterday to nurses who are kind to aged patients he instructed that 25 shares of his torontodominion bank stock be set up as a trust fund by toronto east general hos pital and the income paid annu ally to the nurse who gives the most tender care to elderly lady patients his will contained these other philanthropic provisions twentyfive of his imperial bank shares are to be held in trust by kingston road united church which is to distribute the income as christmas cheer for the weak weary and the ill fifty torontodominion shares go to emmanuel college as a scholarship fund to be awarded thc graduating student of the united church showing prom ise in biblical and doctrinal preaching on the recommenda tion of the professors of the biblical doctrinal and homileti- cal departments he said the fund is to be in memory of his father rev ezekiel richardson ten torontodominion shares are left in trust to the stouff ville public school which is to pay the annual income from the fund to the pupil with the high est standing in entrance examin ations dr richardson asked that this award be named after his brother otto richardson ten torontodominion shares go to washington united church cemetery kingston rd for maintenance and upkeep he bequeathed 500 each to united church home missions and foreign missions and 100 each to the salvation army the fred victor mission and gid eons international the balance of his estate he left to his son and daughter mr and mrs donald mccul- lough newmarket wish to an nounce the engagement of their daughter frances marie to mr graeme burtrom mason son of mr and mrs george mason cedar valley the wedding will was then handcuffed and return take place saturday august 10 ed to the car a guard was sum- 1 at 3 oclock in wesley united moned from the ontario mental church vandorf j hospital at langstaff and acl i companied the officers to to- mr and mrs kenneth rose ronto mount albert ont announce the engagement of their daugh- the p s fathei told p tor marlene agnes to mr har- that ne was returning his ry morgan simpson son of mrl son to hspal after a drive intoi and mrs herbert simpson bal- country while driving lantrae the wedding to take i rough unionville he said the place saturday august 21 at man became violent he had 3 oclock inhartman united bc0 a ln a toronto men- church i tai hospital for the past 16 months wrestling this friday the regular wrestling date at the stouffville arena has been advanced one week and there will be a full card with added features this friday night august 2 the crowd- pleasing midgets will be back in a tag team match the tv star pal oconnor will go against fritz von erich in the op match and dick hutton will face johnny bcrand in lie preliminary you may also win yourself a mantle radio by being present complete separation of markham- vaughan schools believed in offing while no definite moves have moft of thc union schools are al ready situated kirk so long as it doesnt in crease the taxes in the change- white grubs menace to local lawns stouffville and district boasts many very beautiful well kept lawns but many householders who have carefully tended and nursed their attractive green swards have been having an an xious time in recent weeks j many beautiful lawns have dried 1 up and turned a wellburned 1 brown the cause has not been lack of moisture but rather the pests known as white grubs this apparently and they have spread damage area white grubs white grubs the larvae of june beetles very often cause a great deal of damage to plants by eating the roots and other underground parts in certain years damage to corn cereals i potatoes gladioli pastures and nursery plantings may be very j severe lawns and large areas i of turf such as golf course fair ways are sometimes very badly flags train as fire threatens while markham firemen were fighting a blaze in the basement garage of reesors marmilfleed plant express agent john lu- nau ran almost onehalf mile down the track to stop the to rontobelleville cnr passenger train engineer marin fox of lindsay brought the engine to a safe halt one thousand feet from the water hose line fire men had laid a hose line across the tracks from a nearby hyd rant the fire was noticed around six oclock on monday evening the brigade were on the scene within minutes express agent lunau realizing that the eve ning train was due at 626 raced down the tracks and signalled the engineer by waving his white shirt in the air when fire men had the blaze under con trol they threaded the hose un der the rails the train was de layed for five minutes the blaze started in a truck parked in the mills basement garage the interior of the cab 000 according to messrs ander son hisey engineers the selkirk subdivision which cost was burned out damage was estimated a t approximately i towns and cities were also in uxbridge hospital hearing thurs unless a further postponement is arranged the hearing in re gard to the uxbridge cottage hospital will be held in whitby on thursday of this week the l c scott construction co had previously agreed to two post ponements mr fred taylor a member of the hospital board informed the tribune that the hospitals future rested on the decision of reach township council at a meeting held earlier this month reach township council defeat ed a motion to issue debentures for the sum of 12500 for the purpose of completing the hos pital the amount previously suggested for the township of reach was 18000 its going down the drain said mr taylor the hospital board member said that a meet ing was held last week with high provincial government offi cials at this meeting the board j subdivision however due to so was informed that when tliej much litigation in hie past witli necessary funds were available thc sub markham coun- the stated grant would be forth- cii mem were reluctant to coming the officials stated cnter any further agreements however that they couldn t set however they agreed to study a precedent by giving the ux- the proposa accor to the bridge hospital additional finan- court ruling markham cou cial support when many other not collect the 100 per lot fee on 100000 estimate for selkirk subdivision water mains markham the estimated cost of water j mission to close the gormley mains three miles long for the station and the move was op- selkirk subdivision south of no posed by resolution 7 highway at langstaff is 100- indushial development planning director forrest in formed council that the plann- markham township better than board have received an ap- onn f plication for a 200acre indust- 20000 in court costs has been given the green light by the courts to proceed to develop and sell lots provided each lot sup plies its own services rather than have so many wells in the area more than five hundred it is believed that the purchase of water from vaughan twp would be a better plan permission was sought from markham twp to build the pipe line under local improvement j planning director forrest ask- rial site on the 4th concession south of no 7 highway- the land is presently zoned as farm land would bind contractor councillor cosburn requested assurance in connection with the contract to the leo excavat ing co for water mains in the doncaster subdivision that the contractor undorstood by test ing the difficult ground he would encounter and that the ed if the supply of water could amount of the contract was toe be guaranteed for a period of the entire work without extras time in view of the proposed j councillor james expressed new subdivisions in vaughan j her opinion that some assurance engineer anderson suggested of this should be obtained and the proposed plan was urgent as the clerk was advised to contact the costs were piling up in the the engineers and have a report holding of the lots in the new ready for the next meeting 2000 the marguerite shoppes an nual midsummer sale is contin uing read the display adv in this weeks issue and drop in to see some of the fine offerings prices have really been slashed for this event the midst of hospital construc tion programmes as we go to press reeve robert baird of reach township was not avail able for comment stouffville municipal council will convene this thursday eve ning at 730 pm this subdivision begun prior to i this innovation t t c profits markham twp has received a further remiltance from the ttc and covered the divided profit from the bus line on i yonge st for the second quau- cr of 1957 gormley station the c n r requested per- 1 mo tribune next week there will be no issue of the tribune next week aug 8th the production plant of tke stoultville tribune will be closed from august 1st to august 12th whllo the start is enjoying their annual vaca tion the business office will bo open each day except mon day from 930 to 12 noon and 2 pm until 5 pm lake pretty sight from high above south shore is their year caused wide- through this been made in that direction aj councillor kathleen james lover meeting between markham and continued to register objection j councillor james said that she vaughan township councils on to the plan claiming that too understood a petition was in ciri jilu thun mi monday night showed a trend many markham pupils were havjculation opposing the building of i 11111 towards complete separation of ing to cross yonge street the proposed school but deputyj the union of public schools be- reeve clarke stated that he reeve kirk said he understood it tween the two municipalities j thought an expenditure of this j was signed by only five rate- reeve perry deputyreeve 1 amount should be by the vote of payers kirk and other members of the ratepayers reeve perry of j reeve clarke of markham vaughan council appeared be- vaughan said that he had no ob- pressed for a meeting of all part- fore markham council to discuss jection to this but that the pub- ies concerned and suggested that educational matters vaughan he seldom refused any request inspector hallman be asked to twp was not prepared to disjfor increased educational facil- attend vaughan council mem- cuss the matter of a new union ities i hers agreed but wished it under- school as reeve perry stated it became obvious that the stood that the meeting was not that his council had already giv- question pertained to more than in regard to the ross dean m s i en consent to thc expenditure of one school and various members school to which thev had already 1 j ft 115000 and therefore had node- expressed themselves in favor given approval i sire for further discussion this j of dissolution of the two town- 1 the meeting was suggested i feed on the leaves from shrubs and raspberry bushes outbreaks of white grubs have occurred in many parts of ontario every 3rd year for many years life history and habits white grubs require 3 years to complete their life cycle and i while it is possible to find all stages in any one year the great- est majority of the insects in most sections of ontario will fol the latter part of may and early j june in 1956 except in an area amount is for the ross dean ships and the institution of ajfor early september and the n t nh wrhool and markham had pre- plan whereby each township matter of markhams approval j turlington and the ni viously been asked to authorize would take care of its own cdjof the 113000 expenditure for t ir thu in the expenditure the school is tojucational problems id favor the ros dean school was left fc situated in vaughan wbete this change said deputy- rccc with council i continued on page 7 heres a pretty scene of mussclmans lake from high above glendalc park and dance hall glcndalc occupies commercialized beach vast draws thousands of folks each the south shore beach at thc improvements have been made weekend for picnics swimming lake for many years the only on thc premises which now and dancing