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i hk i rtlwmt te25j the tribune stout fvuxjr ont thursday march 19 1959 vol 69 no 41 twelve pages planning board asks metro to help with east end development plans being prepared could accommodate 300 new homes catches rare florida fish mr milton forfar a former stouffville resident and now living at belle ewart 18 miles south of barrie holds a multi coloured trigger queen a rare fish that he pulled recent ly out of the waters of the gulf stream near miami beach florida mr forfar claims that to his knowledge only two other similar specimens have ever been caught he has had the fish mounted and framed the fish measured 18 inches in length the tail spines are six and one half inches long he caught it among rocks with a 120foot line it was some time before the fish was finally hauled safely into the boat mr forfar brought his prize catch in to the tribune on friday staff photo markham expects some conservation work markham township levy for metro conservation authority in 1959 will be 595331 two thousand dollars higher than in 1958 reeve clark said that council was quite interested in the authoritys plans for this year as it was expected they would include several projects in the township he told council on monday that he understood the bruce property would be taken over this year and the harry ken nedy farm on the north town- line the increased levy he said would amount to about one- third of a mill on the tax rate meet on new hr line a special meeting has been announced for the thornhill high school on tuesday march 24th in connection with the pro posed roule of the new cnr line to the hump being built in vaughan twp reeve clark stated that quite a number of persons had visit ed the township office recently to learn of the exact route the new line cuts across markham twp just south of no 7 high way he pointed out that the pres ent line might not be as objec tionable as many persons be lieve since all engines would be diesel thus eliminating the smoke nuisance in addition all cars would be shunted by elec tronic devices eliminating noise turn back gravel tender a motion to accept a gravel tender from the boantra aggre gates ltd toronto was rescind ed on monday the company advised fhat they were not in business to supply at the pres ent time but their pit would be open by april 1st the pit is located just north of gormley sideroad on the 5h concession reeve clark explained that the township required a supply of gravel in small amounts at pres ent and in his opinion it was not fair to request other com panies to give this service dur ing half load periods and then receive the main supply from a company who only offered service at certain periods of the year the new resolution gave the tender for area no 1 to gorm ley sand gravel and f h roberts area no 2 council agreed unanimously to the change considering it i better business to give the work i to firms who would give service when required fined 50 and costs for skipping red light mi sbarkis reesor lifelong resident ofaltona district following a little over two months illness mrs barkis reesor passed away at the brierbush hospital on monday march lgth she was in her 83rd year and a lifelong resident of the altona district mrs reesor was born on the markham pickering townline and had lived on the home farm just east of altona for fiftynine years her husband barkis ree sor predeceased her twenty years ago deceased was identified with the united missionary church at altona where she had taught sunday school for many years mrs reesor established a rec ord of having missed the pick ering township sunday school convention only once in fifty years she was an ardent work er in the altona womens insti tute where she was a charter i member and was a keen his- torian deceased was a daughter of the late christian wideman i and hannah pugh i surviving are three sons blake ken and stanley also one daughter blanche mrs f lackey of fraserville there i are also three grandchildren i the funeral on wednesday i afternoon was conducted from the altona church by rev d sargent with interment in the i dicksons hill cemetery the pallbearers were ed wideman fred mcnair art wideman millard reesor percy wideman and walter carter a harding of markham charged with driving a truck through a red light on the 4th concession of markham was fined 30 and costs or six days when he appeared in traffic court at vandorf on tuesday officer hollidge stated that ac cused had driven through the red light with a truck load weighing 46000 pounds at an estimated speed of 45 miles ah hour police gave chase and laid the charge the accused pleaded not guilty harding admitted going through the light but said that it was amber when he ap proached he said that his brakes were hard meaning the air did not respond he said i he sounded his horn and drove on through officer robb said that as ac cused had driven for seven years he should have been fa miliar with the required dis tance in which to stop harding said he could stop in 20 feet j but officer robb replied that it would be nearer to 150 feet with the load he was carrying magistrate kelly in address- ing harding said that this was a very dangerous experiment you were operating without regard to the rights or welfare i of others on the highway said the magistrate orates on foint system floyd kite of tillsonburg charged with travelling 42 miles an hour in a 30mile zone re ceived a suspended sentence when he appeared in vandorf court kite said he was pleased to be in court as he wished an opportunity of rjfingingbef ore the magistrate the inequality of tlie point system soon to be in operation he said that he travelled all over ontario and had driven some 2000000 miles in his lifetime he contended that an operator of such mile age should not be limited to 12 demerit marks the same as an operator who drove only 5000 miles a year he contended that it was folly to enter charges for minor offenses and quoted passages from the scriptures as he con tinued mr kite said he was a mar ried man with a family of eight children and he wished to see laws passed that his family might observe he said that in regard to stopping at a stop street with no traffic he obeyed the spirit of the law while the officers followed the letter of the law stouffville planning board now has a complete subdivision plan of the forty acres of farm land on the south side of main st including the cain property and the a e booth farm at the regular meeting of the board on thursday evening metro planning board which has been most helpful in assist ing our local planners was ask ed to proceed with a complete plan of the agricultural land on the north side of main st and taking in all the remaining open land on both sides of stouffer street it is estimated that some three hundred homes could be accommodated on these two planned areas in the case of the cain pro perty ten lots near the high way have been reserved for commercial and commercial nonshopping stouffville planning board previously recommended that a percentage of industrial de velopment be provided along with the residential building i however it has been considered unwise to have this industry lo- i cated in the midst of the new homes being planned it is ap parent that additional land must be brought into the town lim its for subdividers to use for industrial purposes reg mackay planning bd member asked reeve lehman what steps council had taken towards annexation the reeve who is also a member of the planning board replied that ac tion would begin as soon as the present water problem had been solved he also pointed out that it would be necessary to have definite plans of what stouff ville intended to do with the land which it was proposed to request from the townships several firms of consulting engineers have offered their services to town for the plan ning of the proposed annexa tion area but to date there has been no action in this connec tion markham twp agrees to new bayview school barns badly damaged in weekend wind storm markham township council meeting on monday afternoon agreed by resolution to accept their share of a 160000 deben ture issue for a new 8room school to be built on an eleven- acre site known as the clark elgin property the approval was given subject to approval by vaughan twp of their share of the cost new map work has been in progress for some time on a new map of markham township it was found that a further expendi ture of 6000 would be required to complete the work and this amount was authorized by council stray dogs councillor jvjumberson ad vised council that a meeting has been arranged for rich mond hill to try and devise a better method of dealing with stray dogs present at the meet ing will be a representative from the humane society mar kham and vaughan twps and richmond hill hold u m church conference in ohio it isnt any wonder that health leaves you when you neglect it year after year ninety six delegates from throughout the united states i and canada convened the 18th general conference of the unit ed missionary church at now carlisle ohio on feb 5 the conference continued through march 2nd i men from the stouffville dis- trict attending the sessions were rev arthur walsh rev c e hunking reg stouffer and charles hoover all represent- i ing the ontario district of the i um church rev k e geiger and rev i ward m shantz were reelected i general supt and vice general i supt respectively mr shantz i is also dist supt for ontario for the first time in the history of the denomination a general sunday school director was ap pointed in the person of rev v k burgess who is at pres- puc budget to include plans for servicing 60 new homes stouffville public utilities hydro department has set a hiidget figure for 1959 at 13- 500 a special meeting was held last week with hydro repre sentatives to deal with the fig ures and discuss the work of the coming summer included in this years work will be 27000 for the serving of new subdivisions of this amount 200 for each of sixty new homes will be required 10000 for a new line north and south of main st rebuild ing to cost 4000 and a power bank at 1000 in addition the budget will include 2300 for new street lighting and 2200 for hydro equipment up to the present the new subdivision development has been financed out of current re venues but debentures will now be issued to carry on with the development the municipal council has presently been ask ed to sanction an issue of 50000 like other businesses which find revenues rising but profits shrinking it is interesting to note that in 195s the surplus of revenues over expenditures ent the pastor of dakota ave church in detroit a new district was established in california and appropriate ly is to be named the california district among tile resolutions adopted during the conference was one commending president eisenhower and secretary of state dulles for their stand against recognition of red chi na it was announced that the per capita giving for all pur poses in the denomination is 16100 the present per capita giving to the work of foreign missions is 3321 in 1951 total givings to missions reached the s100000 mark for the first time iast may the total reported for the past vear missions was s26806132 the fm board points out that 300000 must be the goal this year if the church is to meet its present student attendance at the stouffville dist high school has been seriously affected by sick ness it was reported early this week that an estimated forty pupils were absent mr and mrs bruce rowboth- am brian and laurel of corn wall were in markham attend ing the funeral of the late miss e freeman and also visited their relatives at stouff ville and cedar grove remanded in assault case two stouffville youths char ged with robbery have been re manded until april 23 for trial in the ontario county criminal court ronald charles baker rr 2 stouffville and arthur harold mitchell rr 1 stouff ville appeared before judge j pritchard last week baker and mitchell were char ged on february 20 of last year with assaulting warren beach of uxbridge twp with intent to steal on may 21 they were committed for trial before a judge and jury in november they reelected trial before a judge without a jury and march 12 was set as the date for their trial speaking to judge pritchard on thursday crown attorney alex c hall qc said that he had received communications from one of the defence counsel asking for an adjournment since he would be unable to attend court because of illness his honor then adjourned the trial until april 23 bail of 1000 was renewed baker is also charged with stealing eight head of cattle on june 6 of last year he was committed for trial on july 10 and held in custody until the following month when judge pritchard set bail at 5000 his trial had been set for near hurricaneforce winds caused heavy damage to build ings trees hydro and telephone communications throughout the district on sunday some local areas were without electricity and telephone lines were dam aged in the musselmans lake district when trees were top pled across the wires a barn on the property of mr edward carnegie south east of stouffville was shorn of its roof a gust of wind carried it fifty feet from the main structure and dropped it near the laneway on the sth conces sion of pickering near altona the wind put the finishing touches to the ross colwell barn it had previously collaps ed under the extreme depth of snow on the roof one remain ing wall was toppled on sunday mr colwell told the tribune that he had three hours warn ing of the expected collapse he was able to get his stock out in time the owner may rebuild on a smaller scale on sunday evening the stouff ville fire brigade was summon ed to the home of mr chas farrow west of goodwood when a chimney fire threaten ed the house the shower of sparks rising from the roof was noticed by passing employees of the dept of highways mrs farrow discovered the outbreak at almost the same time in an upstairs bedroom stouffville firemen braved 60 mile per hour wind gusts as they doused the sparks from on top of the roof east of claremont a shefl roof on the farm of mr ralph jones was lifted from its moo ings and hurled against the house some damage was also caused to the claremont united church ladies housecleaning youre sure to find a great number of useful articles which youd like to dispose of items that are contin ually gathering dust and have to be moved about every housecleaning time the stouffville lions club will take care of this problem by disposing of them at their annual white elephant auc tion youll be helping your self and at the same time assisting the local service club in their many welfare projects nothing too big or too small simplv telephone stouffville 152 27w2 98w1 or 35 for pickup john sider passes after long illness john sider who has been ill for an extended period passed away on friday march 13th in scarborough hospital he was in his 70th year and the eldest of the family deceased had lived at gorm ley he plied his trade as a car penter and worked on the rail road as well besides his wife the former pearl hunt mr sider is sur vived by four daughters reta mrs n carrington muriel mrs a carrington oshawa jean mrs j griffiths of los angeles and norma mrs l llewellyn of toronto also two sons harold of fenelon falls and allan of peterborough there also survive three bro thers jos sider stouffville peter of toronto and levi of vancouver and four sisters mrs dewsbury richmond hill mrs fred hill toronto mrs dent law and mrs win tim bers stouffville the funeral on tuesday after noon was conducted from the gormley united missionary church by rev mr hunking with interment in the stouff ville cemetery the pallbearers were clarence doner clarence steckley frank harvey ernest hunt gordon cullen and roy brillinger march 26 but following appli cation by defence counsel for an adjournment trial date has now been set for april 30 and bail renewed debentures for sale the village of stouffville ha asked bell gouinlock co to assist in marketing 170000 in 5 debentures of one to 20 years duratioa the bonds to be sold are for hydro and sewage projects this company has set aside a small amount of the total issue for local residents should one have an interest in these bonds they can be purchased from either of the two local banks or from bell gouinlock co local bonds have always sold well when they have been of fered on the home market and it ts expected that the few thou sand dollars which has been set aside for stouffville residents will be soon subscribed for in the hydro department was 8297 in 1959 it is estimated that this surplus will drop to 7616 in i960 it will be fur ther down to 5389 in this lat ter year revenues are estimat ed to haw riseylto 131150 butl at the same timknexpenditures will have climbed to 125488 the hydro officials told the local commissioners that thej azc surplus anticipated in 1961 was about the most that could be hoped for it was pointed out that the city of toronto works on revenue of less than 2 although admit tedly they have a much greater turnover to work with obligations to missions the conference was informed that 27 missionaries were serving under the chuich in 1943 the number of missionaries on for eign service today is 102 five new missionary applicants are under appointment among the speakers address ing evening rallies during the conference were rev j h kim- bal church building consultant of christian life magazine the rev donald m taylor presi dent of mountain view bible college didsbury alberta and the rev q j everest president of the churchs foreign board it will be of interest to know that the last general confer ence held in the new carlisle church was in 1916 and mr abraham stouffer was a dele gate from this district reg stouffer a son of abraham sto uffer represented the local church this year on the return of the conference to new car lisle v f f scores first playoff goal twelve year old billy payne of claremont scored his first goal in omha playoff com petition on thursday night against marmora his llmely tally aided the lions bantam entry to square their semi- learns play at marmora on final series and force a third saturday night and deciding game the two staff photo